It’s amazing what the Wellington City Council gets up to. Living Wage. Supporting the airport runway extension by using overly optimistic figures. Jinxing NZTA’s plan to reduce congestion in the inner city and the Eastern Suburbs. Island Bay Cycleway. Zealandia bailout. Convention centres. Selling Jack Illot Green and the Michael Fowler carpark to build highContinueContinue reading “RE-BLOG Transport Blog: WCC proposes to reduce emissions by increasing congestion and encouraging more long haul flights”
Tag Archives: runway extension
Yet another world expert says the runway extension is pure fantasy
Once again the Guardians’ concerns with regard to the inadequacy of the information and therefore the flimsy nature of the business case has been endorsed, this time by an international expert. Isn’t it high time that we start listening to some experts other than the shills paid by the airport? But – you will sayContinueContinue reading “Yet another world expert says the runway extension is pure fantasy”
RE-BLOG Transporting Wellington: Airport runway extension does not stack up. Lester spits the dummy
It is true that the Airport runway extension does not make sense. Therefore it is important that the information gets out to the wider community, rather than just to a bunch of local bloggers. This from Strathmore Park. For years now, Wellington International Airport and it’s pet monkey the WCC have been pushing for an airportContinueContinue reading “RE-BLOG Transporting Wellington: Airport runway extension does not stack up. Lester spits the dummy”
OUR SUBMISSION TO THE WELLINGTON CITY COUNCIL’S ANNUAL PLAN
We have submitted the following to the WCC’s Annual Plan – as they were asking for ‘good ideas’ from the community of how to spend our money better. It may be largely lip-service, seeing the Council has gotten a lot of flak recently over their public ‘consultation’ (or lack thereof) processes, but we felt itContinueContinue reading “OUR SUBMISSION TO THE WELLINGTON CITY COUNCIL’S ANNUAL PLAN”
RE-BLOG Strathmore Park: Wellington Airport extension supporters suffering Polyannaism
For years now, Wellington International Airport and it’s pet monkey the Wellington City Council have been pushing for an airport extension. And for years now, it hasn’t stacked up. No small wonder when the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (NZIER) and the Board of Airlines Representatives of New Zealand (BARNZ) slammed the business caseContinueContinue reading “RE-BLOG Strathmore Park: Wellington Airport extension supporters suffering Polyannaism”
REBLOG Strathmore Park Blog: Singapore Airlines just saved Wellington $90m
News this week that Singapore Airlines will be flying “direct” from Wellington to Singapore via Canberra single-handedly proving that we don’t need a $300m plus runway extension to access Asia and saving the ratepayers the $90m that was looking earmarked for the project. Rejoice Wellington. In a Powerpoint Presentation written by what appears to beContinueContinue reading “REBLOG Strathmore Park Blog: Singapore Airlines just saved Wellington $90m”
Singapore here we come! As long as it is subsidised…
Yesterday, the Capital’s worst-kept secret has been confirmed: Singapore Airlines is starting a 4-day a week service from Wellington to Singapore via Canberra. But there are some pretty serious questions yet to be answered about how this miracle came about. The new ‘capital express’ service will begin in September, with seats going on sale onContinueContinue reading “Singapore here we come! As long as it is subsidised…”
REBLOG Keith Johnson: The business case for (or should that be against?) the Wellington runway extension
DOWN TO EARTH WITH A BUMP Everyone is slowly getting back to normality after the Christmas Holidays here in the Antipodes. The holidays are taken very seriously [or should I say ‘unseriously’], resulting both in substantial brain-fade during their duration and the build up of a toxic aversion to a return work among most citizens.ContinueContinue reading “REBLOG Keith Johnson: The business case for (or should that be against?) the Wellington runway extension”
REBLOG Croaking Cassandra: Further thoughts on the Wellington Airport Part 2
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”
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”
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