Press Release – Greater Wellington Regional Council Greater Wellington councilors will consider a proposal for a Metlink service from Wellington Station to Wellington Airport when its Transport Committee meets this Thursday, 11 February. Until now, the Airport Flyer, a commercial contract arrangement …
Greater Wellington councilors will consider a proposal for a Metlink service from Wellington Station to Wellington Airport when its Transport Committee meets this Thursday, 11 February.
Until now, the Airport Flyer, a commercial contract arrangement between Wellington International Airport and NZ Bus, has prevented Metlink from putting its own services forward.
With NZ Bus ending its Airport Flyer service in November 2020 the region’s public transport users have been left with no direct access to the airport, something that Scott Gallacher, General Manager for Metlink hopes to change with his proposal.
Source: New Zealand Transport Agency
Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency has welcomed the decision by an Expert Consenting Panel to approve the NgÄ Åªranga ki Pito-One (Ngauranga to Petone) section of Te Ara Tupua â the shared path connecting Wellington and Lower Hutt.
The project was considered under the Covid-19 Recovery (Fast-track Consenting) Act and is the first Waka Kotahi project to be approved under the legislation.
Artist visualisation of Te Wharepouri Bridge
Waka Kotahi Director of Regional Relationships Emma Speight says the decision gives certainty to the design of the project, which will provide a safer and more connected walking and cycling path between Wellington and Lower Hutt along the harbourâs coastal edge, away from highway traffic.
Friday, 5 February 2021, 11:48 am
Greater Wellington’s Bike the Remutaka Family Day on 13
February will make it easy for the whole whānau to get out
and enjoy the magnificent Remutaka rail trail on two
wheels.
Greater Wellington Councillor Ros Connelly,
who’ll be joining the pack, says cycling the historic
route feels like travelling through time.
“This is
an outstanding piece of our region’s history right on our
doorstep. For three quarters of a century, the railway was
vital for connecting communities on either side of the
Remutakas. It was an amazing feat of engineering when it was
constructed almost 150 years ago, because it needed to cut