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Waterloo Park & Ride opening provides an extra 160 spaces
Friday, 13 December 2019, 4:50 pm | Greater Wellington Regional Council
Waterloo Park & Ride officially opened on Friday 13, combatting the growing demand for more parking spaces as more people opt to leave their cars at the station and train to work. More >>
4WD Clubs fined for damaging stream and discharging sediment
Friday, 13 December 2019, 1:02 pm | Greater Wellington Regional Council
Valley 4WD Club and the NZ Four Wheel Drive Association (NZFWDA) have both been convicted and fined for damaging a tributary of the Mangaroa River and discharging sediment. More >>
Greater Wellington buys land to manage Hutt River
Friday, 13 December 2019, 8:00 am | Greater Wellington Regional Council
Greater Wellington Regional Council has purchased the land on which Manor Park Golf Club sits and leased it back to the club in a deal which manages flood risk, provides opportunities to improve the amenities of the Hutt River Trail while enabling the ... More >>
Dutch Ambassador trades 4 wheels for 2 by cycling to work
Thursday, 12 December 2019, 5:50 pm | Greater Wellington Regional Council
The Dutch Ambassador to New Zealand Mira Woldberg is walking the sustainable talk by swapping her embassy car for an e-bike and cycling to work from Wadestown each day. More >>
Greater Wellington shares key initiatives for transport
Thursday, 12 December 2019, 5:34 pm | Greater Wellington Regional Council
A roadmap for the region’s bus, rail and ferry network was shared with the Transport and Infrastructure Select Committee at Parliament during an update from Greater Wellington Regional Council and the NZ Transport Agency today. Greater Wellington Chair Daran ... More >>
Partnership will drive LGWM programme forward
Thursday, 12 December 2019, 4:37 pm | Greater Wellington Regional Council
Greater Wellington Regional Council has voted in favour of a new relationship and funding agreement with Wellington City Council and the New Zealand Transport Agency to take the next phase of the $6.4 billion Let’s Get Wellington Moving programme ... More >>
Greater Wellington Shares Key Initiatives for Transport
Thursday, 12 December 2019, 12:02 pm | Greater Wellington Regional Council
A roadmap for the region’s bus, rail and ferry network was shared with the Transport and Infrastructure Select Committee at Parliament during an update from Greater Wellington Regional Council and the NZ Transport Agency today. More >>
Passengers packed like sardines without urgent funding
Monday, 9 December 2019, 4:23 pm | Greater Wellington Regional Council
Greater Wellington Regional Council has warned that passengers on Lower North Island trains will be packed in like sardines come 2025 unless an urgent business case to government for new hybrid trains gets the go ahead. More >>
Metlink to roll out key fixes to bus Network
Monday, 9 December 2019, 4:21 pm | Greater Wellington Regional Council
Greater Wellington Councillors will consider an action plan of key fixes to the bus network on the back of the results of its comprehensive city-wide community engagement process which will be put to Council on Thursday 12 December. More than 1,700 Wellingtonians ... More >>
Station ceremony marks next stage in rail network upgrade
Monday, 9 December 2019, 3:16 pm | Greater Wellington Regional Council
An event held opposite Trentham Station this morning marks the beginning of the next stage in the $196 million Wellington Metro Upgrade Programme. More >>
Movin’March registrations open
Thursday, 5 December 2019, 2:12 pm | Greater Wellington Regional Council
Earlybird Registrations for Greater Wellington Regional Council’s Movin’March are open and schools are being encouraged to sign up to the month-long initiative to encourage students to walk, cycle and scoot to school. More >>
Local developer chosen in a build/leaseback agreement
Thursday, 5 December 2019, 11:30 am | Greater Wellington Regional Council
Greater Wellington Regional Council has agreed in principle to sell its former Masterton office to local property development company Endeavour Concepts Limited, which will develop a new building and lease it to Greater Wellington. More >>
Bus drivers fundraise for Samoa’s measles outbreak
Wednesday, 4 December 2019, 5:01 pm | Greater Wellington Regional Council
Metlink bus drivers across the region are donning colourful shirts today in a bid to raise money for those suffering from the measles outbreak in Samoa. Keven Snelgrove, Transport and Operations Director of Tranzurban – one of Metlink’s operators, ... More >>
Hui focuses on driving regional Māori economy
Wednesday, 4 December 2019, 2:50 pm | Greater Wellington Regional Council
A series of community hui on the development of a strong and sustainable Māori economy in the greater Wellington region will conclude in Plimmerton today ahead of next year developing an economic strategy and action plan designed to boost the economic ... More >>
Region’s emissions growing, monitoring report shows
Tuesday, 3 December 2019, 4:54 pm | Greater Wellington Regional Council
While there are more people taking public transport across the Wellington region than ever before, transport-generated emissions continue to grow, a Greater Wellington Regional Council report says. More >>
Care urged for swimmers, dog walkers as toxic algae returns
Tuesday, 3 December 2019, 4:44 pm | Greater Wellington Regional Council
Toxic algae is once again causing problems as the summer starts to take hold, and swimmers are urged to take care, especially at the Waipoua River in Wairarapa. More >>
Second dung beetle offer focused on Wairarapa farmers
Friday, 22 November 2019, 8:21 am | Greater Wellington Regional Council
Another discounted offer of dung beetle packages is now available for Wairarapa farmers as Greater Wellington Regional Council steps up its strategy of using insects to manage dairy effluent and nutrient run-off into rural streams, rivers and lakes. More >>
Greater Wellington proposed committee structure
Friday, 15 November 2019, 7:22 pm | Greater Wellington Regional Council
For immediate release Greater Wellington to boost Climate, Natural Resources and Mana Whenua grunt in proposed committee structure Greater Wellington Regional Council today published details of its proposed committee structure for the triennium ahead ... More >>
Wairarapa’s Mangatarere Stream wins at NZ River Awards
Saturday, 9 November 2019, 10:48 am | Greater Wellington Regional Council
The Mangatarere Stream, a tributary of the Waiohine River, was one of three rivers awarded in the Most Improved River category of this year’s NZ River Awards, held last night in Wellington. More >>
Greater Wellington pushes government on climate change
Friday, 8 November 2019, 11:37 am | Greater Wellington Regional Council
A Greater Wellington Regional Council submission on the Resource Management Amendment Bill 2019 Has urged the government to do more on climate change. More >>
