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Save Queen Street, which includes commercial landlords and retailers, argued that ongoing trials of new arrangement could run for years, damaging commerce in an already struggling strip. “The current arrangement of the street has caused economic harm – business are up against it,” their lawyer Sam Lowery told Wednesday’s injunction hearing. The council’s lawyer Padraig McNamara said given Save Queen Street wanted to stop the improvements to the 2020 temporary arrangement of plastic sticks and concrete blocks, its injunction bid was “counter-intuitive”. Auckland Council/Suppli...

Work to make the CBD's main shopping street more pedestrian-friendly and limit traffic will begin on Monday, but opponents will continue their fight.

Bid for injunction to stop council's lower Queen Street upgrade fails Sarah Robson © RNZ / Liu Chen A group of Queen Street landlords and businesses has lost its bid to stop further temporary work to make Auckland's main commercial street more pedestrian-friendly. Businesses want the council to settle on plans to improve Queen Street and "do it once and do it right". The Save Queen Street Society (SQSS) is seeking a judicial review of the Auckland Council's decision-making around a pilot programme to test pedestrian upgrades. As part of that, it sought an interim injunction...

Lobby group and Auckland Council face off in court as judge mulls whether to stop $1.1 million pilot to make main drag more accessible to pedestrians.

Queen St businesses seek judicial review of Auckland Council pedestrian upgrades © RNZ / Amy Williams A group of Queen Street landlords and businesses has been taking legal action to stop further work to make Auckland's main commercial street more pedestrian-friendly. The Save Queen Street Society (SQSS) is seeking a judicial review of the Auckland Council's decision-making around a pilot programme to test pedestrian upgrades. As part of that, it wants an interim injunction to stop some of the planned improvements to lower Queen Street, which would mean the replacement of some of the emerge...