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