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After five years of consultation, there is still no timeline for when private vehicles will be removed from Wellington s Golden Mile,
Auckland Transport released plans this week which would ban end-to-end traffic from Queen St by mid-2021. Why have changes to Wellington’s Golden Mile taken so much longer? Joel MacManus reports. The 2.4 kilometre ‘’Golden Mile’’ from Lambton Quay to the end of Courtenay Place is not only the heart of Wellington’s nightlife and retail but is the central spine of the public transport network. Almost 95 per cent of buses in Wellington’s centre city pass through the Golden Mile and, on average, other vehicles delay each trip by an average of 3 minutes and 40 seconds.