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The development of Island Bay’s shopping area has seen the Council take the opportunity, after consultation, to highlight some of our local history.
Tram tracks -the genuine article – have been laid as a reminder both of the trams and the way Island Bay developed as a suburb as a result of the tranlines being extended to the sea. Without this the are would have developed quite differently, waiting for the wider use of automobiles to allow people to commute. And given the cost of cars it is likely that the suburb would have continued as a place for the wealthy to build (as it first was) rather than the predominantly working class suburb it developed as.
And the shopping area’s first te reo Māori sign!
"The electric tramline from Wellington's central city to Paekawakawa Island Bay was installed in 1905, rapidly transforming this remote seaside resort into a coastal suburban development.
These tram tracks are a section of the original tracks, restored and donated by the Wellington Tramway Museum in Paekakariki.
Ko te raina hiko mai i te tãone nui o Poneke ki Paekawakawa, Island Bay, i utaina i te mutunga o te tau 1905, ka tere te huri i tenei whare noho- a-moana ki te whanaketanga o te taone nui.
Ko ēnei ara tereina, he mea whakakikorua, he mea koha na Te Whare Taonga o Tramway Pōneke i Paekākāriki."
WELLINGTON TRAMWAY MUSEUM
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