The list MP says the capital city "doesn't feel like the Wellington I grew up in" due to an increase in social disorder and the presence of patched gang members.
What’s gone wrong for the capital city? How much time do you have? Danyl McLauchlan goes hunting for solutions to the city’s lengthening list of problems.
“The reality is even Wellington is dying and we don’t know how to turn it around.” – John Key in 2013.
“I should have said ‘under sustained pressure’, which would have been a better terminology. I’m not suggesting that it’s dying in the slightest.” – John Key a few days later.
Wellington is not quite dead. In fact, the city is expected to keep growing (making its already dire accommodation crisis even worse). But “under sustained pressure” feels downright prophetic given that geysers of water and sewerage have become routine features of the Wellington skyline.
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