Welcome to the Save the Basin Campaign website. Our organisation formed in 2010 to help prevent a motorway flyover being built overshadowing the historic Basin Reserve cricket ground – and we won.
Since then, we have continued to campaign for the protection of the Basin Reserve as a beloved community facility and international cricket ground, and for low-carbon, sustainable, 21st century solutions to transport issues here in Te Whanganui-a-Tara / Wellington.
But in 2025, a car-obsessed government has come up with a plan to spend $3 billion dollars on pushing a bigger motorway through central Wellington. If this goes ahead, construction alone will cause eight years of travel and housing disruption. Find out the latest news about this project and why we oppose it:
As of September 2026, this project has been approved for the Fast Track process by the current government as part of its Roads of National Significance programme, and a fast-track panel is in the process of being appointed.
We’re not taking that lying down. In a century and a country beset by the climate crisis and the fuel crisis, and in a city increasingly prone to flooding, spending $3 billion the country doesn’t have on a new motorway is reckless and wasteful.
Join us and help stop this project going ahead:
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