The Save the Basin Campaign formed in 2010 to help prevent a motorway flyover overshadowing the historic Basin Reserve cricket ground – and we won. Since then, we’ve kept working for the protection of the Basin Reserve as a beloved community facility and international cricket ground, and for low-carbon, sustainable transport here in Te Whanganui-a-Tara / Wellington.
But in 2025, a car-obsessed government came up with a plan to spend $3 billion dollars on pushing a bigger motorway through central Wellington in a fuel and climate crisis. 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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