Wellington City Council has confirmed that the Moa Point Sludge Minimisation Facility is expected to reduce emissions by 2,000 tCO₂-e per year, based on carbon calculations by Beca, in response to this March 2026 LGOIMA request.
Every pothole can be traced back to a transport system that chooses to use roads for things they’re not suitable for.
Jaime Lyth, reporting for BusinessDesk (paywalled): New Zealand car share company Mevo has gone into voluntary administration a month after it crowdfunded $3.28 million. ... Mevo recently claimed it was valued at $25m on Auckland-based crowdfunding platform Snowball Effect, where it raised $3.28m in capital after setting a $2.
It’s a scary time to be alive. The United States has started another war in the Middle East. Alongside the awful trauma to regular people’s lives in Iran, Lebanon and the Gulf States, Trump’s war has also kickstarted the largest oil supply shock in history. 20% of
🛢️I wrote this before the war in Iran. Holds up even more now, I think. The country is facing a challenge: if it doesn’t rain enough, our power prices go through the roof in winter. A solution is needed to the dry-year problem. There are many options on the
I just spent the better part of an hour listening to Andrew Boyd walking through his beautiful, poignant, empathetic and stark flowchart of the climate crisis. It challenges my own biases and denial about the scale of this challenge. Even though I live and breathe this stuff, I still find
If you care about Wellington taking climate action, you have to tell our city councillors ahead of a vote on Thursday. Contact councillors to support climate action On Friday last week, Wellington City Council released a range of recommendations to slow rates increases. At the moment, the median rates bill
You're not going crazy. Bus replacements are getting worse. Over the past couple of months, I've been collecting official information from the Greater Wellington Regional Council about our train services. They've provided data on how many people were on each train service and bus
Snapper tag-on data for Metlink rail replacement bus services and scheduled rail services across Wellington, broken down by fare type and line (Jan 2024–Dec 2025).
Greater Wellington Regional Council has released monthly bus replacement service counts for all four Metlink rail lines from 2017 to January 2026, broken down by planned and unplanned disruptions, in response to this January 2026 LGOIMA request.
As recently as 2022, over half of Wellingtonians wanted trams to return to our streets. For decades, the people of Wellington have supported better transport choice. A revitalised Golden Mile. Improving rail. Bringing back the trams. Citizens across the capital want a place that’s tight-knit, affordable, and fit for
Henry Cooke, writing for the Post: But you’ll note from my examples above that we don’t need to look away from democracies or the global north to find places that can build things quickly - we just need to look at countries where people don’t speak English,
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Greater Wellington Regional Council has released detailed daily rail patronage data spanning 2017/2018 to August 2025, including individual trip high-count statistics for all train lines, in response to this September 2025 LGOIMA request.
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Wellington's central area contains approximately 13,750 publicly accessible car parks, including 4,096 on-street spaces, according to this February 2026 LGOIMA response from Wellington City Council.
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🚋This is part two of my series on Wellington trams. Part one covered our history, part three will tackle the politics. It's a modest Monday morning in 2035. Derwent Street is glistening in the drizzle. You walk through your apartment block's central courtyard and out towards
Kate Newtown, writing for RNZ: AA Insurance, which has approximately half a million New Zealand customers, wrote to Buller District Mayor Chris Russell at the very end of 2025 to tell him the company would halt new business, home and landlord insurance policies for properties in the 7825 postcode, which
Hayden Donnell, telling it like it is for the Spinoff: During his tenure as transport minister, Brown made it clear that value for money was his top priority in funding decisions and that’s continued under his successor, Chris Bishop. Given that, you’d think cycling investment would stand out
Which year saw the most public transport passengers in Wellington’s history? You might think 2019, before the pandemic put public transport in crisis. Or maybe 2024, as our bus lines benefitted from more dedicated lanes. The answer is 1943. That year, Wellingtonians took over 64 million tram journeys in
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2025 was a big year in New Zealand’s climate space. There have been good news stories, like the growing number of renewable energy projects in New Zealand. Solar farms, wind farms, and hydro projects are on track to grow our clean energy supply so we can electrify everything and
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If we're serious about solving traffic, this ain't the way to do it.
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Something I didn't realise until recently was that half of the warming impact of the world's flights comes from non-CO2 related activity.
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Rail travel has this old-timey feeling in many parts of New Zealand. Our iconic towns like Shannon and Ohakune owe their existence to their rail connections, yet travelling on tracks rather than tyres or wings feels nostalgic rather than realistic. Despite that feeling, millions of journeys are taken on our
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It'll be interesting to see whether it gets off the ground.
A must read article from Connor Sharp, writing for Greater Auckland: ...this government is funnelling millions of dollars to consultants to design frankly unaffordable billion-dollar mega-motorways. Meanwhile, a struggling construction sector faces the ongoing collapse of the pipeline of smaller, smarter projects. This is due largely to one person: Simeon