In my first post today, I posed some questions around the plausibility of the assumed increase in international travel into and out of New Zealand if the proposed Wellington airport runway extension was to proceed. In this post, I want to focus mainly on how the consultants have calculated the net national benefits from theContinueContinue reading “REBLOG Croaking Cassandra: Further thoughts on the Wellington Airport Part 2”
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REBLOG Croaking Cassandra: Further thoughts on the airport Part 1
Shortly after the release of the cost-benefit analysis of the proposed Wellington airport runway extension, prepared by Sapere for Wellington International Airport Limited (WIAL) I wrote a post in which I posed the question “If they build it, what if no one comes?” Since that post, I’ve been to one of the open day/public consultationContinueContinue reading “REBLOG Croaking Cassandra: Further thoughts on the airport Part 1”
REBLOG Strathmore Park: Knowing better than the locals
by Lindsay Shelton The Wellington Airport campaign to promote a longer runway is similar to the Transport Agency’s campaign about building a flyover at the Basin Reserve. Both commissioned large numbers of experts to support what they wanted to do. Both failed to connect with the communities who would be most affected. The Transport AgencyContinueContinue reading “REBLOG Strathmore Park: Knowing better than the locals”
REBLOG Keith Johnson: Why can’t WIAL pay for the proposed runway extension?
BBC AND BBBC I was sort of retained as an ‘economist’ by the Guardians of the Bays ginger group that has been formed to contest the Wellington Airport Runway Extension Project – with our tiger-lady organizer Dr Sea Rotmann setting me to tackle the Notorious Business Case that has been recently developed by the consultingContinueContinue reading “REBLOG Keith Johnson: Why can’t WIAL pay for the proposed runway extension?”
REBLOG Genius Net: No Public Funding For Runway White Elephant Please
The debate over whether or not public money should be invested in the extension of Wellington International Airport’s (WIAL) runway is starting to heat up. Despite project studies only being released to the public this week, city councils across the region have already indicated they will provide financial support towards the $330 million cost. AtContinueContinue reading “REBLOG Genius Net: No Public Funding For Runway White Elephant Please”
REBLOG Croaking Cassandra: What if they build it and no one comes?
A throwaway line of mine a couple of weeks ago about the Wellington City Council’s enthusiasm for the proposed airport runway extension prompted a couple of comments here from Tim Brown, chair of Wellington International Airport Limited (WIAL) – owned 66 per cent by Infratil and 34 per cent by the Wellington City Council. AsContinueContinue reading “REBLOG Croaking Cassandra: What if they build it and no one comes?”
REBLOG: Strathmore Park: Infratil getting testy over Wellington airport extension questions
Infratil are getting increasingly testy over the questions now being asked by many around the viability of the Wellington Airport Extension and the perception of a corporate handout. In an post on David Farrar’s Kiwiblog, they level their guns at David Lee and Cameron Slater of WhaleOil. In Sense from a Green Councillor, David Farrar questionsContinueContinue reading “REBLOG: Strathmore Park: Infratil getting testy over Wellington airport extension questions”
RE-BLOG Strathmore Park: Swampy Marsh enters the Airport Extension debate and suffers an ironic injury
Simon Marsh launched into David Lee this morning in an Op Ed in the Dominion Post about the airport extension. He accused his colleague of shooting himself in the foot. In a scene that reminded me of Yosemite Sam hunting Porky Pig, Swampy waved his guns around and managed to shoot himself in the foot. AContinueContinue reading “RE-BLOG Strathmore Park: Swampy Marsh enters the Airport Extension debate and suffers an ironic injury”
Monthy Python & the Wellington Runway Extension: Someone should trophy hunt this white elephant
The bumbling shambles that is the Wellington International Airport and Wellington City Council’s pipe dream for an airport expansion rolls on with more misinformation and lack of co-ordination by the various parties no doubt costing us millions of dollars with absolutely nothing to show for it but a report that says we shouldn’t go there.ContinueContinue reading “Monthy Python & the Wellington Runway Extension: Someone should trophy hunt this white elephant”
Long Term Plan Optimism Bias, more Propaganda, and another Consultation Shambles
The Council isn’t known for its accuracy with figures. They are a bit of a movable feast, as is time, and other elements. So when the Mayor sent out a press release yesterday on the statistics around the Long Term Plan (LTP) and how awesome it has been, with actual statistics, I thought “doesn’t lookContinueContinue reading “Long Term Plan Optimism Bias, more Propaganda, and another Consultation Shambles”
Guardians of the Bays 