Absurd : Heritage NZ complicates Wellington rail upgrade with concerns of colour palette, foot-traffic Newshub 17 hrs ago © Provided by Newshub
Heritage New Zealand is protesting the installation of automatic ticketing systems in a Wellington train station because it could bring more passengers and wouldn t match the colour palette.
At the moment, only cash can be used on trains, and paper tickets can be bought before boarding. Snapper cards can only be used on buses - but the Greater Wellington Regional Council (GRWC) wants to trial the automatic tickets on the Johnsonville train line.
For this, Snapper top-up machines would need to be installed in the historic Wellington train station - and Heritage NZ isn t so sure it s a good idea.
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Judith Collins week goes from bad to worse as National served up a smorgasbord of debacles, writes James Elliott
The country was stricken by an icy shock wave this week. Plunging temperatures were attributed to a so-called “polar blast”, a conveyer belt of freezing southerlies apparently streaming north directly from Antarctica. I realise that it’s dangerous territory for a lay person to opine on meteorological matters but in this case the weather wizards were clearly wrong in attributing the freeze to a polar blast. It was obvious to any casual observer that the freeze was coming directly from the perpetual winter that is National’s caucus room.