We’ve provided a set of ques­tions for the may­or­al and coun­cil­lor can­did­ates to answer. First 25 words to an answer get pos­ted. Check our 2013 Elec­tion cov­er­age for all responses as they come in.

When we con­tac­ted can­did­ates with our ques­tions, we asked them to email a spe­cif­ic email address that all the ‘ista could access so that answers could be pos­ted faster. This can­did­ate didn’t use that email address. Hence the late post­ing.

Here’s John Woolf, whose email did­n’t say what he was run­ning for.

1. What should be the city council’s role in help­ing home­less people and beg­gars?

Sup­port the organ­isa­tions already doing good work in this area such as Sal­va­tion Army and Wel­ling­ton Night Shel­ter. Pro­mote afford­able hous­ing.

2. What would you do to make Wel­ling­ton more cycle and ped­es­tri­an friendly?

Imple­ment a rap­id trans­it pub­lic trans­port spine from the rail­way sta­tion to the air­port, redu­cing the load­ing on roads allow­ing the devel­op­ment of cycle lanes.

3. How do you think traffic flow to the hos­pit­al and air­port should be improved?

End­lessly improv­ing car access to the city is a no win pro­pos­i­tion, bet­ter access, more cars, same con­ges­tion. Need to get people onto good pub­lic trans­port.

4. What are your views on the sug­ges­tion Wel­ling­ton needs to be “more than just Weta and Gov­ern­ment” – what do you think are Wellington’s strengths?

If Wel­ling­ton can be ‘the coolest little cap­it­al in the world’ high value busi­nesses will be attrac­ted to Wel­ling­ton because of good infra­struc­ture and live­ab­il­ity.

5. What will YOU do to get more invest­ment, busi­nesses, and busi­ness con­fid­ence in Wel­ling­ton?

More invest­ment in busi­ness incub­at­ors, inter­na­tion­al pro­mo­tion of Wel­ling­ton as a premi­um place to do busi­ness and less bur­eau­cracy.

6. What does Wel­ling­ton need more of, and what does Wel­ling­ton need less of?

More emphas­is on mak­ing Wel­ling­ton a walk­able city with good pub­lic trans­port and less emphas­is on road­ing devel­op­ment. Bring back the Cuba Street Car­ni­val.

7. What would your city coun­cil provide for chil­dren and young people?

The best pos­sible lib­rary ser­vice. Pas­sion for books at a young age is a good start in life. Dis­coun­ted pub­lic trans­port fares for young people.

8. What steps would you take to encour­age civic engage­ment?

Attend my ward com­munity meet­ings and take their views to the coun­cil table.

9. Tell us about your per­son­al earth­quake plan / What’s unusu­al about your earth­quake kit?

Get off the street into a build­ing and under some­thing sol­id. Stay put. Don’t do back out­doors until I am con­vinced the worst of the after­shocks are passed.

10. Why should we vote for you?

I believe coun­cil has an import­ant duty to sup­port the qual­ity of life of its cit­izens and to provide people-first infra­struc­ture.

11. Where can we find out more about what you stand for?

  1. www.vote.co.nz, face­book, youth coun­cil www.votewelly.org , Gen­er­a­tion Zero www.generationzero.org.nz