🚀 Wellington’s Transformation Journey

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🚀 Wellington’s Transformation Journey

        the WEEKLY ROAST

The great Wellington transformation is underway — from grungy Courtney Place to the amazing Wellington Waterfront and up to Cuba and Tory St. 🌊🏙️ Crossing over Ghuznee St, Manners St, and Wakefield, down into the waterfront, and up over the Carillion, then onto Tasman Street where Massey University stands 🎓 — Wellington is moving forward.

And across Te Aro, New Zealand’s fastest-growing suburb, with:

  • Buses running through it 🚌 (some diesel, some electric 🚗)
  • Cars, bikes 🚴
  • People on crutches

Wellington is going through a massive, massive change.

Andrew Little, “Doolittle,” looks like he’s come in with a brush 🖌️ with a whole lot of other people behind him. The only problem is, Justin Lester is there, the old “Audience Molester,” and that’s never good because everywhere he goes, there are fleas 🪳. But we move ourselves past brutal operators like that.

The question is: can Andrew Little do it with his team? That team includes:

  • Ben McNutti
  • Karl Tiefenbacher
  • Lily Brown
  • Di Calvert
  • Ray Chung
  • Tori Fanau (alongside Deputy Mayor Paula Muollo, maybe)

Over in Eastern, we’re dealing with:

  • A resurgent Rob Goulden
  • Karl Baker

And in Lambton, the council lineup includes:

  • Nicola Young
  • David Lee 🌿
  • Geordie “the mail man” Rogers

A lot of expectations are on the table:

  • $560 million in social housing 💰
  • No more debt (Karl Tiefenbacher will make sure of that, because transparency matters)
  • The Post newspaper and its digital site will be dead, gone ❌ — all their opinions forgotten.

One Network & Wellington Live will lead the way with:

  • Honest, transparent perspectives
  • Photos 📸
  • Videos 🎥
  • Real connections with every community, not just some

As we watch Wellington transform from a S#i+hole into a modern city by 2028:

  • Peter Jackson is expected to bring in 300,000 new people 👥
  • For every 10 people, that’s 3 jobs → about 30,000 jobs 💼

This means we will need:

  • More houses 🏡
  • Faster buses 🚌
  • Wider planes ✈️ to bring tourists in
  • A tunnel 🛠️
  • And lots of patience ⏳

If we slim down the Council comms team from 113 people to 2–3, open up transparency, improve customer feedback, and give Wellington a voice 🎤, then corporates will thrive and the government will pump money back in by 2026 as it tries to save itself from impending Armageddon.

And if Labour wins next October, Wellington will go through an unprecedented surge of:

  • 6,000 new jobs 💼
  • More Peter Jackson-led building and tourism

Until then, Wellington is basically stuck — but we should not overlook the fact. Instead, we must look to Andrew Little and ask: will “Doolittle” do the right thing?

#Wellington2028 🌆
#Transformation 🚀