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More Accessible Public Transport Planned For Greater Wellington
Friday, 26 November 2021, 5:47 pm | Greater Wellington Regional Council
Building thriving urban communities around public transport hubs at Waterloo, Porirua and around the Wellington region has been set as a priority for future work to strengthen Metlink’s network. Locations were approved yesterday by Greater Wellington’s ... More >>
Accessibility Charter Adopted By Greater Wellington
Thursday, 25 November 2021, 2:36 pm | Greater Wellington Regional Council
Greater Wellington is to embark on an action plan designed to make the Metlink public transport network more accessible to disabled people. The plan will work to make network design, infrastructure, education and information more accessible to disabled ... More >>
Fallen Falcons Spark Changes To Park’s Power Poles
Tuesday, 23 November 2021, 1:47 pm | Greater Wellington Regional Council
A pair of native kārearea (New Zealand falcons) found dead in Whitireia Park have evoked a significant infrastructure adjustment to the park’s power poles. One of the coordinators of the Whitireia Park Restoration Group (WPRG) and former Greater ... More >>
WELA Offers A Lifeline For Wairarapa
Tuesday, 16 November 2021, 12:30 pm | Greater Wellington Regional Council
The increasing volatility of climate-change driven weather has thrown the spotlight on maintaining lifeline services following disruption and potential threats to people and assets from the consequences of natural disasters. Storms and flooding will become ... More >>
Fine Among The Negative Legacy Of Dumped Tyres
Thursday, 4 November 2021, 1:08 pm | Greater Wellington Regional Council
Kevin Anderson and his company Combined Projects (2016) Limited have been convicted and fined for the illegal disposal of waste tyres at a Castlepoint property in Wairarapa. Greater Wellington Regional Council laid four charges against Mr Anderson and his ... More >>
Metlink And NZ Bus Join The Movember Mo-vement
Monday, 1 November 2021, 1:59 pm | Greater Wellington Regional Council
In support of Movember, Metlink buses operated by NZ Bus will be donning a new ‘facial’ feature in November. In favour of the movement, Metlink’s Manager of operations, Melissa Anderson is all for the giant moustaches that NZ Bus will be displaying on ... More >>
Planting Is Nature’s Best Medicine
Friday, 29 October 2021, 3:26 pm | Greater Wellington Regional Council
A medicinal plant garden, or rongoā, has been established as part of Greater Wellington’s flood protection work on the Ōtaki River. Council Flood Protection staff were joined by members of local iwi Ngāti Raukawa ki te Tonga and Friends of the Ōtaki River ... More >>
Students Encounter Scooter Safety Lessons Of The Wellington Paranormal Kind.
Wednesday, 27 October 2021, 11:16 am | Greater Wellington Regional Council
Primary school students are learning to safely glide along Wellington’s spooky streets with practical lessons thanks to Wellington’s premier paranormal police officers and Greater Wellington’s Scooter Ready programme. Supported by Micro Scooters, ... More >>
Updated Flood Protection Policy Puts Climate Change At The Fore
Tuesday, 19 October 2021, 2:14 pm | Greater Wellington Regional Council
Working with nature by allowing rivers natural movement is among the key points from Greater Wellington’s updated climate change flood protection policy put before Greater Wellington’s Climate Committee today. While the policy strongly advocates ... More >>
Time To Scrub Up On Toxic Algae Urges Greater Wellington
Monday, 18 October 2021, 1:35 pm | Greater Wellington Regional Council
Summer swimmers, dog owners and the community should be scrubbing up on spotting toxic algae as we approach the warmer months and our refreshing rivers beckon. Toxic algae is harmful to people and deadly to dogs, so owners need to take the lead and ... More >>
Greater Wellington Lifts The Lid On Its Regional Role And Responsibilities
Friday, 15 October 2021, 1:59 pm | Greater Wellington Regional Council
A campaign launched by Greater Wellington today is cutting through confusion, showing the value the regional council adds to communities and the importance of its role in navigating change facing the region in the coming years. Nigel Corry, Chief Executive ... More >>
Snapper On Rail Unveiled On Johnsonville Line
Thursday, 14 October 2021, 1:38 pm | Greater Wellington Regional Council
Metlink confirmed the launch date for Snapper on rail today with the card payment rolling out on the Johnsonville line as part of a pilot that will inform the National Ticketing Solution in the future. Familiar to hundreds and thousands of bus passengers ... More >>
Greater Wellington Wants Action On The Emission Reduction Plan
Wednesday, 13 October 2021, 11:34 am | Greater Wellington Regional Council
Greater Wellington is urging the regional team of half a million people to actively respond to the Government’s just-released National Emissions Reduction Plan, which outlines a proposed framework to meet the emissions budgets required to limit greenhouse ... More >>
Plastic In Waterways Criticised By Regional Council
Thursday, 7 October 2021, 1:34 pm | Greater Wellington Regional Council
With the clean-up of plastic found in the Tauherenikau River in August nearing the halfway mark, the focus for Greater Wellington now turns to stopping rubbish being dumped in waterways across the region. Greater Wellington deputy chair and Wairarapa ... More >>
New Report Starkly Outlines Wairarapa Climate Change
Wednesday, 29 September 2021, 7:26 pm | Greater Wellington Regional Council
A new report that brings home the impact of climate change in Wairarapa in never-before seen detail has just been released by Greater Wellington. Commissioned by Greater Wellington and written by NIWA, the report provides the latest update on the climate ... More >>
Ruamāhanga planting to deliver jobs and environment benefits
Friday, 24 September 2021, 3:00 pm | Greater Wellington Regional Council
Planting is coming to an end in the year one work programme of the Major Rivers – Riparian Management programme as Greater Wellington closes in on establishing more than 36,000 of 120,000 plants allocated towards improving water quality and habitat ... More >>
Rural Communities Urged To Report Sightings Of Crop-eating Pest Bird During ‘look For Rooks’ Awareness Campaign.
Friday, 24 September 2021, 11:21 am | Greater Wellington Regional Council
Greater Wellington is calling out to rural communities in the Greater Wellington region to ‘look for rooks’ in its annual awareness campaign. <img src="https://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/2109/2df048e51ddf32801b96.jpeg" width="720" height="720"> Rook, Corvus frugilegus A large, ... More >>
Greater Wellington welcomes $1.2 billion boost
Wednesday, 8 September 2021, 3:41 pm | Greater Wellington Regional Council
Greater Wellington Regional Council has welcomed Tuesday’s announcement by Minister of Transport Hon Michael Wood of the Government’s transport funding priorities for the next three years contained in the National Land Transport Programme More >>
Rubber Hits The Road For Metlink’s Electric Vehicle Fleet
Wednesday, 25 August 2021, 9:25 am | Greater Wellington Regional Council
Metlink is on track to becoming the lowest carbon emissions network in the country, as a new tranche of 10 electric vehicles (EVs) started rolling out on the road this week. These are the first of the 98 new EVs that Metlink has committed to welcoming ... More >>
Applications open for Ngāti Toa Rangatira and Greater Wellington’s fund that boosts community environmental projects
Tuesday, 24 August 2021, 11:56 am | Greater Wellington Regional Council
Applications are open for this year’s Community Environment Fund which supports community groups to restore, maintain and protect our native ecosystems, a joint initiative between Greater Wellington and Ngāti Toa Rangatira. The fund supports ... More >>
