NEWS: Extending the runway: one truck every minute, for ten hours every day
by Lindsay Shelton The brutal reality of constructing a longer runway at Wellington Airport is revealed in one of the 27 reports that were published this week. It provides startling details of the...
View ArticleNEWS: Longer Runway not Plane Sailing
By Bernard Hickey As a Wellingtonian, I would love a runway that permits direct flights to Asia and the US. It would save me schlepping up to Auckland and walking the gauntlet through the carparks to...
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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...
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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...
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OPINION Dom Post: Wellington Airport’s runway extension plan struggles to...
PATTRICK SMELLIE Last updated 12:50, December 3 2015 ANDREW GORRIE/FAIRFAX NZ While there may be 679 long-haul passengers leaving and arriving in Wellington every day already – enough to fill nearly...
View ArticleA truly independent review of the Airport’s Cost Benefit Analysis
Ian Harrison, a highly respected Principal economist from Tailrisk Economics, has released a truly independent (i.e. not paid for or commissioned by any Party involved in the runway extension) review...
View ArticleREBLOG 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...
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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...
View ArticleREBLOG Keith Johnson: The business case for (or should that be against?) the...
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’],...
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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...
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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...
View ArticleNEWS NZ Herald: NZIER savages Wellington runway extension plan
Analysis backing the proposed Wellington airport runway extension “grossly overstates” the benefits, understates the costs and is based on passenger projections that may be five times too high,...
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RE-BLOG Strathmore Park: Wellington Airport extension supporters suffering...
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...
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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...
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RE-BLOG Transporting Wellington: Airport runway extension does not stack up....
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...
View ArticleYet 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...
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RE-BLOG Transport Blog: WCC proposes to reduce emissions by increasing...
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...
View ArticleRE-BLOG STRATHMORE PARK: Wellington Airport Extension – More shocking facts...
Posted some weeks back this is the submission by the Guardian’s of the Bay on the so-called Airport Extension, or otherwise known out this way as the White Elephant Project. What is interesting are the...
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RE-BLOG Adam Voulstaker: Desolation of Smog
To the sound of bugles bicycle bells, the Council Annual plan 2016-2017 arrived yesterday. Link: Council 2016 – 2017 Annual Plan Wrapped up with the 2015-2016 proposal is the “Draft Low Carbon Capital...
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RE-BLOG TRANSPORTING WELLINGTON: What does Justin Lester really stand for?
It’s great to hear Labour candidate Justin Lester launching his campaign with good ol’ fashioned pork barrelling. In fact, you can view a pretty slick campaign video done by his campaign team. Or read...
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