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?