Restoring the Golden Mile - Overview

Manners Street with buses travelling both directions

The new two-way Golden Mile bus route started in November 2010. Buses now travel between Lambton Quay and Courtenay Place using Willis and Manners streets, moving in both directions.

New Look for Lower Cuba Street

With the work on the Golden Mile bus route finished, attention was then focused on upgrading lower Cuba Street. The 'new look' lower Cuba street has the following features:

It is a slow-speed area where pedestrians have priority.
Vehicle and cycle access is one-way - from Manners Street to Wakefield Street.
Drivers and cyclists must give way to pedestrians.
The speed limit is 10 km/h.
Two-hour parallel parking replaces the old angle parking.
The wide areas next to the shops are for pedestrians only.

Take Extra Care

You need to take extra care at each end of the street where vehicles exit and enter. These crossing points are like others in the central city. If you are driving through, you should give way to pedestrians - even on a green light.

Shared Space

Shared spaces are designed to accommodate a range of users - pedestrians, cyclists and drivers - and work well in Melbourne and many European cities. Rather than restricting or not allowing vehicles, they use design features to encourage low speeds.

The new shared space:

extends the design 'feel' from Cuba Mall to reinforce the pedestrian link to Civic Square
is flexible so it can be closed to traffic and used for special events like the Cuba Street Carnival.

Lower Cuba Street Shared Space Design Information (2.23Mb PDF)

Safety Audit

At the end of the Golden Mile part of the project, Wellington City Council commissioned an independent post-construction safety audit. See the safety audit report and the Council's response to its recommendations:

Safety Audit Report and Council's Response (2.08Mb PDF) | Text version (66Kb RTF)

More Information

Suzanne Eynon
Project Manager
Phone:	(04) 803 8764
Email:	suzanne.eynon

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