Anti-Fascist Protective Rampart

Our very own Anti-Fas­cist Pro­tect­ive Ram­part has been up for months now, and remains as ugly as ever.

Look­ing south towards Friedrichstraße *cough* I mean Abel Smith Street:

… and north towards Ghuznee Street. In the dis­tance, over the wall, we see the sym­bols of cap­it­al­ism brazenly and proudly flaunted:

All we are really miss­ing are some sen­try towers, razor wire, and anti-per­son­nel mines. Some­body really needs to fin­ish this damn “bypass” already.

Bypass surgery complete. Has the patient survived?

At last, the final stage of the bypass has been opened, and the dec­ades-long drama is draw­ing to an end. The Dom­Post reports…

At 6am yes­ter­day, south­bound traffic was dir­ec­ted from The Ter­race Tun­nel onto a one-way Vivi­an St via a new off-ramp.

At the same time, Buller and Ghuznee streets rever­ted to two-way streets.

Trans­it New Zea­l­and pro­ject man­ager Jon­nette Adams said some motor­ists had teeth­ing prob­lems with the new lay­out, but were mostly cour­teous to each oth­er. Some “tweak­ing” of inter­sec­tion lights helped alle­vi­ate con­ges­tion on oth­er routes link­ing with the bypass.

A team of engin­eers would be on hand today to make sure things ran smoothly, Ms Adams said.

Trans­it opened the north­bound sec­tion of the bypass in Decem­ber.

Mean­while, frus­trated Wel­ling­to­ni­ans are turn­ing to the Web to vent their anger at delays caused by the region’s trans­port infra­struc­ture.

Aha! Haven’t they just.

So, how was it for you?