Now that we have a defin­it­ive list of may­or­al can­did­ates, we thought it was time we send them some of the ques­tions we’d crowd­sourced over Twit­ter ages ago. So I just sent out this list of ques­tions. We’ll print replies ver­batim, cut­ting off answers at 25 words for the sake of brev­ity as they come in.

1. You have 30 seconds to con­vince someone to come to Wel­ling­ton. What’s your pitch?

2. How do you think traffic flow to the hos­pit­al and air­port could be improved?

3. Where do you stand on the issue of open­ing up gov­ern­ment data?

4. What plans have do you have to improve recycling/composting facil­it­ies?

5. What is your policy on street alco­hol­ics?

6. Do you sup­port ped­es­tri­an­isa­tion of the Golden Mile? Why/Why not?

7. What’s the last loc­al mar­ket you went to? What did you buy?

8. Describe your bicycle, or your favour­ite bus route?

9. When did you last use the lib­rary, a com­munity centre, or a coun­cil-run sports facil­ity?

10. Would you wel­come a cent­ral gov­ern­ment driv­en “super-city” amal­gam­a­tion of loc­al author­it­ies?  If not, why not?

11. Do you think the coun­cil has a role in fos­ter­ing com­munity web­sites? If so, how?

12. Where do you stand on water privit­isa­tion, and why?

13. What city over­seas inspires your vis­ion for Wel­ling­ton? How?

14. Is the concept of demo­crat­ic rep­res­ent­a­tion import­ant to you?  How so?

15. What do you think about com­muunity gar­dens on pub­lic land?