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Thomas Nash @thomasnash.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Building communities in our most connected places makes sense, but often seems harder than it should be. So I’ve been working on a research project for Massey University documenting new or improved communities built up around public transport hubs in the UK - transit-oriented developments. 1/

Image of the Symphony Centre which will be built above the new Te Waihorotiu station in Auckland.

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Thomas Nash @thomasnash.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

The new trains, named Tūhono for their role in connecting and uniting people in the lower North Island, will be the first battery electric trains in the Southern Hemisphere. Alstom will also support local jobs and local business and help develop capacity for NZ’s rail industry. 3/

Artist’s impression of the new Tūhono train for the lower North Island to be manufactured by Alstom.

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Thomas Nash @thomasnash.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Big moment this morning to help sign the contract with Alstom for 18 new five-car trains to serve people in the lower North Island from 2029. This will allow us to quadruple rail services to Palmerston North, double services to Masterton and open up for more development around railway stations. 1/

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Thomas Nash @thomasnash.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

We just had the busiest July on record for Wellington’s Metlink bus network, with 2,326,413 bus passenger trips. This is driven by our reliability being steadily over 99% across the network. Once the government brings its rail tracks up to standard, rail patronage will see the same increase.

Graph showing July monthly bus passenger trips in the Wellington region from 2019-2025.

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Thomas Nash @thomasnash.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

This new Harbour Quays bus route is big. Speeding up bus trips through the city makes daily life better for people, gets more bus frequency for the same cost and services more destinations. I hope the government will reconsider its decision not to help fund this very high value infrastructure.

Map showing the proposed Harbour Quays bus route with existing Golden Mile stops and proposed future Harbour Quays stops.

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Thomas Nash @thomasnash.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Wellington needs council candidates to focus on serious, affordable, high value for money projects they can actually deliver. Bus lanes, especially on the Harbour Quays, are a good example. Saving 10 mins for each of the 70,000 bus trips people take each day through the city is a very big deal. 1/

Map of the proposed faster buses route through the city noir to the eastern suburbs.

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Thomas Nash @thomasnash.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

The increase in Wellington’s weekend bus use is remarkable. Saturday is up 31% from 2019. Sunday is up 45%. In this period we increased our off peak discount and boosted off peak frequency, reducing drivers’ inconvenient split shifts. Still loads of untapped potential for off peak travel I reckon.

Graph showing the increase in weekend bus patronage in the Wellington region between 2019 and 2025.

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Thomas Nash @thomasnash.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Here’s what I said about fare capping when the Regional Council agreed to it over a year ago in May 2024. It is all still true! But the delays have become intolerable. That’s where the focus needs to be: delivery. Needs to be fare capping together with debit card payment and integrated fares. 3/

Screen shot from GWRC press release in May 2024:

Greater Wellington councillors also agreed today to introduce journey based daily and weekly fare caps when the NTS is implemented in the region.

"Fare capping makes public transport more attractive by effectively offering free travel after you've taken a set number of daily or weekly journeys. It's a great way to encourage public transport use and has proven very successful and popular in lots of other cities and regions," Cr Nash says.

Metlink Explorer Day passes and 30-Day passes will be replaced by fare capping, giving similar discounts to all passengers not just those who can afford passes."

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Thomas Nash @thomasnash.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Wellington has doubled the length of bus lanes and bus priority over this council term. One result is afternoon peak travel times from Newtown to Courtenay Pl are a third faster. But the full benefits of these bus lane time savings rely on doing the Golden Mile and Harbour Quays projects ASAP. 1/

Graphic showing bus travel times on the Newtown to Courtenay Place corridor from 2019 to 2025, showing a signs and reduction in afternoon peak travel times.

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Thomas Nash @thomasnash.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

The government noted advice this week that “for every $40 spent on new infrastructure, we should be investing $60 in maintenance and renewals.” This is encouraging. The government’s current transport investment plans are fiscally very high risk and need very close public scrutiny against this ratio.

Extract from Beehive press release with quotes from Infrastructure Minister, Chris Bishop.

"Poor asset management results in expensive renewals and emergency works, poor infrastructure quality, asset failures, and less funding for new services. The Infrastructure Commission estimates that for every $40 spent on new infrastructure, we should be investing $60 in maintenance and renewals.

"In practice, years of poor asset management means leaky hospitals and schools, mould in police stations and courthouses, service outages on commuter rail, and poor accommodation for Defence Force personnel and their families. It's not good enough. New Zealanders deserve better.

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Thomas Nash @thomasnash.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

This is a map of the temporary speed restrictions on Wellington’s rail network. Restrictions stem from the government’s rail assets being way, way overdue for renewals. It’s like leaving potholes on State Highways for years and telling drivers to slow down driving past them. Maintain your assets!

Map of temporary speed restrictions (TSRs) on the Wellington regional rail network.

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Thomas Nash @thomasnash.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Just getting the airport bus into town and it is 1 minute faster than the trip by car. This is possible mainly because of the dedicated bus tunnel through Mt Victoria and we can shave even more time off this and other bus trips by implementing our proposed bus priority improvements to the east.

Google map image showing the Metlink airport bus trip taking 24 minutes at the start of the afternoon peak.

Google map image showing the trip by car taking 25 minutes at the start of the afternoon peak (or 33 minutes travelling through State Highway 1).

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Thomas Nash @thomasnash.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Tory Whanau has delivered record investment in water infrastructure, freed up record amounts of space for new homes in the inner city and installed a record number of bus and bike improvements. In all these areas Tory has delivered more than any Wellington mayor in recent history, possibly ever. 1/

Extract from Herald article:

Whanau won the mayoralty in 2022, beating Labour's Paul Eagle and incumbent Wellington Mayor Andy Foster in the closest thing to a landslide possible under Wellington's STV voting system.

Looking back, Whanau is proud to have lifted the city's water investment to $1.8 billion in the 2024-34 Long-Term Plan.
The council's district plan will enable thousands of new homes. The council has also planned to upgrade over 800 social housing units.

It has built 27km of new cycleways and bus priority lanes have doubled from 4km to 8km.

"I'm really proud of that ... that is exactly what I was elected to deliver and now with the Golden Mile project starting officially I feel very proud. We're, we're in the middle of transformation," Whanau said.

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Thomas Nash @thomasnash.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

We’re proud of our record as Greens in Wellington over the last few years. It’s been too fast for some (too slow for others) and we know we can’t always expect fair, balanced and accurate reporting. So you can check out the facts for yourself here and tell us what you think: www.capitalworks.nz.

Screenshot of letter to the editor in the Sunday Star Times:

Greens defend record

As Green-affiliated city and regional councillors in Wellington City, we are proud of our record in Wellington over a challenging few years, working from difficult starting points. We have achieved record investments in water infrastructure, unlocked generations of constraints on building new homes and delivered all-time high patronage and reliability on our buses.

We understand good news and actual tangible progress doesn’t always make the headlines and instead there’s often a focus on setbacks and disputes. We see it as an important role for us to help communicate the actual facts around what has been and is being achieved.
Some pundits have said, without any evidence to support their claims, that we have “no record”. Of course, not everyone agrees with the progress we’ve made, but it’s important for local democracy that people can judge for themselves.

So, we’ve collected some facts about our work in a new website: www. capitalworks.nz.

Check it out for yourself and get in touch - we would love to hear from you.

Mayor Tory Whanau, deputy mayor Laurie Foon, city councillors Nīkau Wi Neera and Geordie Rogers, regional councillors Yadana Saw and Thomas Nash

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Thomas Nash @thomasnash.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Traffic management is one of those services that is critical to our city. It allows people to carry on moving safely around while major projects are being done. It should be core business for councils and finding a way to bring it in house, eg via a CCO, is exactly the kind of improvement we need.

Extract from Mayor Tory Whanau’s oped in the Sunday Star Times:

We can also continue to look for efficiencies across the city. One of the biggest costs with our transformation projects is traffic management. I'm looking forward to seeing if we can reduce this significantly by bringing that function in - house. It will also make things significantly easier for local businesses who are keen to host street events.

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Thomas Nash @thomasnash.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Brilliant news that the courts have upheld Councillors’ decision to free up space for new homes in Wellington’s wealthy inner city suburbs. Defeating this legal challenge allows the council to get on with its work to get more housing built, bring down costs and welcome more people to the city.

Extract from Post article saying:

Churchman also said he concluded the council and minister did not fail to provide adequate reasons in rejecting a greater character area zoning.

Wellington mayor Tory Whanau said the ruling was a positive step forward for Wellington, particularly in addressing the pressing need for more housing.

She said the win allowed the council to continue the goals of the 2024 District Plan and build the kind of city all
Wellingtonians deserve - vibrant, resilient and well-planned.

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Thomas Nash @thomasnash.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Bringing this amazing valley into public ownership for the people of New Zealand is one of the most significant things this council will do in a generation. Working with mana whenua to open up this land and its magnificent wetlands to the public for restoration and recreation will be so positive!

Aerial view of the valley south of Eastbourne

Aerial view of the land looking over the lakes

Aerial view of the valley looking across to Wellington

Screenshot of RNZ article about the land purchase

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Thomas Nash @thomasnash.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Councillors and Metlink staff took the train to our Transport Committee meeting in Masterton yesterday and got the bus replacement service home. Regular use of public transport by councillors and senior staff is important for us a public transport authority to stay connected to the people we serve.

Regional Councillors and Metlink staff getting off the train at Masterton station on our way to the Transport Committee meeting.

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Thomas Nash @thomasnash.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Contracts signed for Te Awa Kairangi Riverlink. We’ve been getting on with flood protection works and plans to manage transport disruption: Melling Line will stay open to Western Hutt and a new Melling Station will reopen in 3 years linked to the central city via a new walking and cycling bridge.

Render of the city link bridge connecting Lower Hutt central city to the new Melling Station.

Aerial image of the city link bridge connecting Lower Hutt central city to the new Melling Station.

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Thomas Nash @thomasnash.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

NZ’s two biggest non-unitary regions took identical approaches to regional deals. One was subject to an unjustified pile on by the PM and ministers, the other was not. This fundamentally unserious behaviour is incompatible with effective regional planning and deserves much greater public scrutiny.

Two RNZ headlines - one reporting on the PM’s criticism of the Wellington region’s approach to the regional deal programme and one reporting on Canterbury’s approach, which was identical.
First headline says:
Christopher Luxon calls Wellington councils “pretty lame-o”.
Second headline says:
Canterbury chasing regional deal

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Thomas Nash @thomasnash.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Another unfortunate error for @thepost-nz.bsky.social to correct today. The proposal to charge commercial rates on the portion of a property being used for commercial purposes (AirBnB) does not “take more revenue” as asserted here. It simply shifts the proportion of residential vs commercial rates.

Screenshot from Post article saying: “But one area where the council can take more revenue, on top of existing plans for years of rates rises, is charging short-term accommodation providers - such as Airbnb hosts - commercial instead of residential rates. Commercial rates are
3.7-times higher than residential rates.”

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Thomas Nash @thomasnash.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Marko has already done this to help them out:

Graph of water capex adjusted for inflation over past 20 years showing which mayors were in power when.

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Thomas Nash @thomasnash.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

The idea that the council hasn’t changed direction to deal with Wellington’s problems is clearly false. The decision to allow thousands more dwellings in the city and to massively invest in water infrastructure are two of the biggest changes in decades, they are not more of the same!

Screenshot of opinion piece in The Post:

“Wellington's leaders aren't flying blind.
They see the data. They hear the concerns. And yet, they refuse to change direction, as if the answer to this well-established malaise is more of the same.”

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Thomas Nash @thomasnash.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Golden Mile physical works finally start in April! Along with the new Harbour Quays bus route and bus priority to the east, we will see major time savings from Miramar to Parliament - like 20 minutes or more each way. Crucially, that also means more frequent bus services for the same cost. So good!

Render of Courtenay Place post improvements.

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Thomas Nash @thomasnash.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

NZTA already confirmed last year that the bus time savings presented by the former Transport Minister relied on the planned Harbour Quays bus lane project that the current government has so far declined to fund. So it’s totally unjustifiable not to release the modelling and analysis showing this. 2/

Screenshot from article in The Post last year saying:

But Waka Kotahi/ NZTA on Tuesday confirmed that those figures were modelled on the assumption that bus priority projects along the Wellington harbour quays were going ahead.

It also confirmed that, apart from possibly funding a couple of business cases, it was not spending any money in the current three-year funding period on the bus spine it based its modelling on.

Brown would not say whether he knew his time projections were based on a project with no central government funding.

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Thomas Nash @thomasnash.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

This quality of life survey for 8 NZ cities gives useful insight into how we are doing on public transport. Wellington City is 1st for frequency of use, frequency of services, practicality, safety, accessibility and ease of getting around without a car; 2nd for reliability; 4th for affordability. 1/

Graphic showing frequency of use of public transport in 8 cities: Auckland, Hamilton, Tauranga, Hutt City, Porirua, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin. Wellington is first by some margin with 48% using PT at least once a week; Hutt City is second with 37% and Porirua is third with 31%.

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Thomas Nash @thomasnash.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

More anti-foreign, anti-UN, climate denialist statements from a senior NZ cabinet minister, during a speech in his role representing the NZ government. This pattern of statements is a serious problem for NZ and undermines the government’s stated desire to attract migrants and foreign investment.

Screenshot from RNZ article with quotes from Cabinet Minister Shane Jones.

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Jones' speech was also highly critical of banks that refused to work with fossil fuel companies.
"This malevolence flows from cult like accords fostered within the UN where banks and their sustainability units foolishly believe they can change the weather.
"New Zealand banks should abandon such agreements as the Net Zero Banking
Alliance.
"These instruments are alien and represent a foreign threat to regional development," he said.

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Thomas Nash @thomasnash.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

That’s one of the reasons we reduced off peak public transport fares with a 50% discount, which has helped significantly increase off peak patronage, especially at weekends. We also reduced split shifts to improve driver conditions and off peak frequency, which is pretty solid in Newtown.

Bus timetable around 12pm running from Wellington Hospital to Lambton Quay, showing 8 services in a 30 minute period.

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Thomas Nash @thomasnash.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Obviously us bus users know the bus lanes are very busy with buses at peak times, but the most we can do on those bus lanes in Newtown at peak times is 8 bus services in 30 mins. This capacity is constrained by lack of bus lanes / bus priority elsewhere on the bus route and, of course, funding.

Bus timetable showing 8 bus services going past Wellington Hospital in Newtown between 8am and 8:30am on a weekday.

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Thomas Nash @thomasnash.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

The Post issued a correction last night: Correction: A reference to Wellington parking being "overstretched" has been removed. WCC data for metered car parks shows occupancy at peak times is 52%. Occupancy rates for private sites is not known.

The Post correction saying:

Correction: A reference to Wellington parking being "overstretched" has been removed. WCC data for metered car parks shows occupancy at peak times is 52%. Occupancy rates for private sites is not known.

- The Post

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Thomas Nash @thomasnash.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

The Post printed an article today asserting that Wellington’s car parking is “overstretched”. I asked what their basis was for asserting this, given that WCC parking occupancy at peak times is only 52% and there are around 30,000 car parks overall in the central city. They removed the assertion.

Extract from Post article:

The first three floors will open and then the rest will open as each floor is finished
- adding 350 car parks to Wellington's overstretched car parking total with about 700 available once the building is finished.

The first three floors will open and then the rest will open as each floor is finished
- adding 350 car parks, with about 700 available once the building is finished.

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Thomas Nash @thomasnash.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Our new articulated buses will be able to drop off a maximum of 112 people 8 times an hour. Conversely, four 30 minute car parks will drop off 20 people, twice an hour. So a route 2 bus stop will deliver businesses up to 896 people an hour vs four car parks bringing 40 people an hour. Simple maths.

Rendered image of a Metlink articulated bus coming through the Karori tunnel.

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Thomas Nash @thomasnash.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Got the 2024 bus data and it was our strongest year ever with 26,597,739 bus trips. That’s 3.7% growth on 2019, our previous busiest year (pre-covid). Reliability was over 99% every month. October was our most reliable month at 99.7% and May our busiest month with 2,582,185 trips. Thank you drivers!

Bar graph comparing 2019 to 2024 bus patronage data, showing monthly growth in patronage over 2024 compared to 2019 (pre-covid).

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Thomas Nash @thomasnash.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

The Media Council has upheld my complaint against NZME, saying Barry Soper’s article on Tory Whanau made a “serious error that cast unfounded doubt on the legitimacy of the process that led to Ms Whanau becoming mayor.” They agreed the correction both fell short and confused the matter further. 1/

Screenshot of the Media Council decision upholding my complaint against NZME.

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Thomas Nash @thomasnash.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

In a crowded field, this is the best, most cringeworthy and revealing example of text messages from a self-appointed group of wealthy people in Wellington who appear to be acting like their interests and opinions are more important than the democratically elected local government. Very bad for them!

Extract from an article in the post saying:

A text message from Gazley to Brown in March, six months before the launch of the Vision group, says: "Hi Simeon, I'm a friend of Nicola Willis, can you please call me when you have time about Wellington city council". It was followed by a firecracker emoji. Brown did not reply.

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Thomas Nash @thomasnash.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

The Minister should release the modeling for the bus time savings he promised when announcing a plan for two tunnels to widen Wellington’s urban highway, including any unfunded projects his time savings rely on. We, the actual public transport authority, don’t have this and asked for it weeks ago.

Screenshot from Beehive press release from the Transport Minister:

"Commuters in the capital will see a significant benefit in time savings from these upgrades. Those travelling on the number one bus between Island Bay and the Railway Station are forecast to save 9 minutes during morning peak times, while those on the number two bus between Miramar and the CBD will notice a saving of 11 minutes on their journeys," Mr Brown says.

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Thomas Nash @thomasnash.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Using a car costs way more - in both private and public costs - than public transport and other modes. When our government decides to invest in motorways over public transport and to prioritise sprawling car dependent suburbs, they are actively choosing to force up the cost of transport.

Graph showing the fixed and variable user costs of various types of modes of transport, with cars at the higher end by far.

Graph showing the social costs of car ownership, including private costs, health costs, infrastructure costs and subsidies and environmental costs.

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Thomas Nash @thomasnash.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Metlink has over 3000 bus stops. Two have a green roof. It’s a worrying sign of poor governance to continually focus on a single minor point that does not reflect the wider picture or the relevant facts. I hope we can expect the leadership and good governance we need from the Minister in future. 5/

Extract from The Post article:

He said the regional council needed to consider how it delivered on transport needs for ratepayers "rather than splashing cash on expensive and bizarre projects such as a $2.2 million bus shelter in Paraparaumu that has a garden on the roof".

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Thomas Nash @thomasnash.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Unfortunately, the Minister’s comments require clarification: - the government declined to contribute to the region’s 3-year $268m PT infrastructure plan; - a major chunk of the $1.3b mentioned by the Minister was set aside under the last government for one item, lower north island trains. 3/

Extract from The Post article:

Transport Minister Simeon Brown said a record $1.3 billion would be put towards Wellington public transport services and infrastructure from the recently released National Land Transport Programme (NLTP).
That would be the largest investment in such services that the region had seen, and was a decent share of the $6.4 billion set aside for public transport projects across New Zealand, he said.

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Thomas Nash @thomasnash.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

This $120b transport investment forecast is obviously totally unreasonable, undeliverable and irresponsible. Cabinet needs to rein in the transport fantasies, get back to basics and focus on maintaining and upgrading the existing infrastructure we rely on while carefully prioritising new projects.

Treasury investment forecast chart showing transport investment eclipsing all other spending forecasts in the table.

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Thomas Nash @thomasnash.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

The Chamber of Commerce has campaigned relentlessly and unsuccesfully against the golden mile project for years, failing to understand its benefits or see it as part of a package with a new Harbour Quays bus route. As the public transport authority we wrote to WCC in strong support of the project.

Screenshot of a letter from GWRC to WCC:
“We understand the budget constraints that your Council faces through the proposed LTP Amendment and the difficult choices that will have to be made - GW is working in a similarly constrained financial context. We would however like to reiterate that these three projects are all critical infrastructure projects to maintain and improve the city's public transport services on which Wellingtonians rely - they are not 'nice to have's'. As a consequence, Greater Wellington advocates for:
1. Priority focus on the Harbour Quays and Eastern Bus Corridor;
2. Retention of public transport improvements along the Hutt Road - Thorndon Quay; and
3. Continue with agreed Courtenay Place upgrades with the remainder of the Golden Mile improvements deferred as currently planned in your recent Long-term Plan.”

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Thomas Nash @thomasnash.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

There’s no doubt this is the biggest protest in Wellington for a generation. We know from Metlink numbers it was off the charts. ACT and NZ First leaders actively trying to downplay the numbers smacks of fear when even low ball Police numbers are double the baseless assertions from NZ First.

Aerial photo of the crowd for the Hīkoi showing most, but not all of the crowd - I am out of shot with many more people behind me.

Screenshot of article where the NZ First political party leader says police have overestimated the crowd as 35,000 shortly before police increased their conservative estimate to 42,500.

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Thomas Nash @thomasnash.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

They’ve been reporting the numbers!

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Thomas Nash @thomasnash.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Stunning day on the harbour and a privilege to be at the reopening of Matiu in the harbour with mana whenua and the Department of Conservation, transported by our friends and trusted partners, East by West Ferries. Pleased to have the island back on the Metlink network. Perfect prelude to the Hīkoi!

Kara Puketapu Dentice talking to the crowd on Matiu

East by West ferry the Cobar Cat at the new wharf on Matiu

View of the harbour and the city from Matiu

Walking path on Matiu with the city in the distance

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Thomas Nash @thomasnash.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Priority for public transport tomorrow is to get people in and out of the city smoothly and safely. We’ve maxed out capacity on all rail lines and bus routes. Leave early, expect delays, take it easy, respect your drivers and if you’re not coming to the Hīkoi and can work from home, do it.

Screenshot from RNZ article:

The council's transport chair Thomas Nash said it had "maxed out capacity" on all the rail lines.
"Our primary focus is trying to get people through the public transport network as smoothly and safely as we can. On that day it is going to be super busy."
Nash was asking passengers to be patient with drivers and public transport staff.

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Thomas Nash @thomasnash.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Yet another reason why the government needs to rein in the fantasies and get back to basics on transport - we already have a huge road network to maintain and there just isn’t enough aggregate (or money or civil construction capacity) to be building loads of high cost, low value new motorways.

Extract from an article saying NZ is the third largest consumer per capita of aggregate in the world because of the relative size of our road network and population.

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Thomas Nash @thomasnash.bsky.social · 29/09/2024

Very good point by a columnist in the Sunday Star Times today - couldn’t have said it better myself!

Screenshot from a column by Andrea Vance in The Sunday Star Times today saying: “National's bemoaning working from home is inconsistent with its drive to boost urban sprawl and build new roads into main centres.” And my tweet from last week saying: “Bemoaning working from home while promoting costly urban sprawl and expensive new highways is incoherent. Focus housing policy on homes close to the centre, transport spend on public transport and infrastructure spend on renewals and the city will thrive.”

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Thomas Nash @thomasnash.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

In Wellington’s morning peak, buses are only 3% of the vehicles on Thorndon Quay but carry 60% of the people. On Adelaide Road buses are 1% of the traffic, but 40% of the people. Want more people in the city without more congestion? Fund more bus lanes, and higher capacity, higher frequency buses.

Graph showing percentage of vehicles by corridor and mode, comparing buses and cars on Adelaide Rd, Glenmore St, Thorndon Quay and Mt Victoria.

Graph showing percentage of people by corridor and mode, comparing people in buses and people in cars on Adelaide Rd, Glenmore St, Thorndon Quay and Mt Victoria.

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Thomas Nash @thomasnash.bsky.social · 25/07/2024

Our plans to at least double passenger rail services between Wellington and Palmerston North and Wellington and Masterton and make them faster and safer have survived the change of government. Funding agreement signed, now onto the request for proposals from manufacturers. New trains incoming 2029.

Graphic showing map of regional rail network and describing the elements of the project being funded including new trains and new track infrastructure.

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