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The Wellington City Council today confirmed the decision of its strategy and policy committee and agreed to add mana whenua representation to council committees, with the representatives having a vote and being paid.
Mayor Andy Foster and Cr Sean Rush changed their votes and supported the plan, leaving opposition from only three councillors. They had voted against the plan at the previous committee meeting.
A historic day for council with agreement to share power with mana whenua! A special thanks to mana whenua for their graciousness, @jilldaynz for leading the charge and to @MayorOfWelly and Sean Rush for changing their vote to right a long term injustice. pic.twitter.com/R1YMXjFOW0
Thursday, 29 April 2021, 9:23 am
Wellingtonians can now hop aboard two very special
Metlink buses designed by Bill, 8, from Wellington city and
Ellie, 11, from Kāpiti, who won Metlink’s popular
‘Design a bus’ competition.
Bill and Ellie were
celebrated at a community event to unveil the two buses. The
tamariki were among the very first to see the freshly
wrapped EV double decker buses as they drove off the lot.
Ellie, Bill and their proud whānau then took the buses on
their maiden voyages to Island Bay where community members,
Greater Wellington councillors, Paul Eagle MP and Deputy
Mayor Sarah Free gathered to celebrate the kids’
Other New Zealand departments and councils have also used buses from CRRC. Wellington s Metlink service relies on dozens of electric buses purchased from CRRC by operator NZ Bus, KiwiRail recently ordered 10 new diesel locomotives from the company (topping up 63 it has bought since 2009) and the Government s Low Emission Vehicles Contestable Fund has subsidised the purchase of at least one CRRC bus for Tranzit to the tune of $370,000.
AUCKLAND TRANSPORT
A mock-up prepared for a 2018 Auckland Transport document shows the plan to electrify the CityLINK buses. Forced labour concerns The deployment of the buses in Auckland and Wellington and KiwiRail s decision to purchase 10 more trains came after the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) found CRRC was one of 82 companies potentially directly or indirectly benefiting from the use of Uyghur workers outside Xinjiang through abusive labour transfer programmes .
Tuesday, 27 April 2021, 10:56 am
Last Thursday, New Zealand’s biggest public transport
company, NZ Bus, announced an indefinite lockout of about
280 drivers in Wellington who were to hold a 24-hour strike
the following day against attacks on wages and
conditions.
The Tramways Union filed an injunction
with the Employment Court, which on Saturday ordered that
the lockout be lifted. The court ruled that there was “an
arguable case” that NZ Bus’s lockout notice was
unlawful.
Bus services have resumed but the
pay dispute remains unresolved. The company said it would
not rule out more lockouts if there was not “significant
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