The final price tag for Auckland’s controversial Queen Street pedestrianisation project - which launched a High Court challenge in 2021 by aggrieved landlo
The council’s survey drew a narrow majority favouring the project and a “clear preference” for the council’s original design over late alternatives proposed by Save Queen Street. The council’s original plan was backed by 48.5 per cent surveyed, compared to 40 per cent for the Save Queen Street alternative. The balance favoured something different. One of the issues was council’s preference for a single lane of general traffic, in which buses would stop at the kerb, rather than pulling into a bay. Save Queen Street has argued that would disrupt traffic flow between Shortland and Customs Streets, but the council and Auckland Transport said it gives priority to quicker journeys by bus.