Author: Robyn

Giant Pile of Rubble Terrorises Wellington City

What the hel­l’s going on down Mag­in­ni­ty Street?!

Wrecked cars! A mas­sive pile of rub­ble! Res­cue crews mov­ing in! OMG, the big one has final­ly hit!

And yet Peth­er­ick Tow­er is look­ing sur­pris­ing­ly undam­aged…

All is revealed after the jump.

Baby, you can share my car

Here at the Welling­ton­ista we like pub­lic trans­port, but there are times when you need a car to do stuff, like pick­ing up that flat­pack cock­tail cab­i­net out in Low­er Hutt.

At the moment your options are pret­ty much lim­it­ed to bor­row­ing a friend’s car, hir­ing a taxi, or fork­ing out for a rental, but there is a more sen­si­ble option.

It’s called car shar­ing, and is cur­rent­ly up and run­ning in Auck­land through a com­pa­ny called City­hop.

With City­hop, you pay a year­ly fee (cur­rent­ly $75), and when you need to use a car, you make a book­ing, then pick up your car from one of the spec­i­fied city car parks, do your car-relat­ed stuff, then return it, pay­ing a $13.50 hourly rate (includ­ing petrol!) for its use.

City­hop’s been run­ning in Auck­land since Sep­tem­ber last year, and accord­ing to their web­site they’ll be open­ing soon here in Welling­ton.

Need­less to say, we will be keep­ing a close eye on this. Per­haps now we’ll final­ly be able to get that cock­tail cab­i­net for Welling­ton­ista Tow­ers.

Fight’s The Power

Every­one loves a good apos­tro­phe cat­a­stro­phe. I was delight­ed to find this one at a chemist near the train sta­tion:

ORLY?

I was think­ing maybe it’s a prod­uct name, like “Dr Fight­’s Cold & Flu Rem­e­dy”, but real­is­ti­cal­ly it seems like just anoth­er sad case of a hor­ri­bly mis­placed apos­tro­phe.

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