Flyover at the Basin Reserve

So the Dominion Post seems to have stopped publishing my letters.
I'm sure it's all a master conspiracy and the editor is in the pocket of John Key and Wellington Mayor Kerry Prendergast...
However, they can't censor me here! So, I've copied in below a letter I'd hoped to get in today's edition of the paper:

With the cricketing world turning its attention to Wellington's Basin Reserve this Friday, it is most important to inform them of the Regional Land Transport Committee's plans that could see a flyover built at the iconic cricket ground's northern end. The euphemism 'grade separation' is being used to limit the inevitable collatoral should the public realise what such plans would mean for the Basin Reserve: a concrete monstrosity skirting the ground and likely resulting in construction of a multi-level stand just to block out the flyover's air, noise and visual pollution.

Not only would construction of the flyover make it nigh on impossible to hear the sound of leather on willow, but it would lead to increased greenhouse gas emissions and oil-dependency as commuters are encouraged to continue using the private car as their main mode of transport in the city.

Incidentally submissions relating to the congestion issues at the Basin Reserve are currently open through the Council's Regional Land Transport Programme and I strongly encourage you to make a submission.

Basically, the 'grade separation' (read: flyover) has been placed as the number two priority on the region's land transport programme for the next 3 and 10 year periods which means that there is a high probability that it will be built, and, possibly fast-tracked, as a 'road of national significance'.

I will be writing more about this issue in the coming days. For now, you should check out savethebasin.org.nz. Submissions close on Friday 24th April at 5pm.

This is one way that you can act to help reduce our capital city's dependency on a fossil-fuelled transport system.