{"id":33198,"date":"2021-06-17T13:52:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T04:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/17\/new-zealand-capital-wellington-to-ban-cars-from-golden-mile"},"modified":"2021-06-17T13:52:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T04:52:00","slug":"even-more-attractive-new-zealand-capital-wellington-to-ban-cars-from-golden-mile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33198","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Even more attractive\u2019: New Zealand capital Wellington to ban cars from \u2018Golden Mile\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of 2,000 public submissions, a decisive majority were in favour of the plan to get rid of cars from major streets<\/p>\n<p>The main thoroughfare in Wellington, New Zealand\u2019s capital, is set to become car-free by 2023, after local authorities opted for the most ambitious reform option available to them.<\/p>\n<p>Pavements in Wellington\u2019s \u201cGolden Mile\u201d will grow in size by up to 75%, cyclists and pedestrians will be prioritised and two bus lanes \u2013 one in each direction \u2013 will allow continued public transport. It is expected to cost between NZ$52m and NZ$79m.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/17\/new-zealand-capital-wellington-to-ban-cars-from-golden-mile\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of 2,000 public submissions, a decisive majority were in favour of the plan to get rid of cars from major streetsThe main thoroughfare in Wellington, New Zealand\u2019s capital, is set to become car-free by 2023, after local authorities opted for the most a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2257,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33199,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33198\/revisions\/33199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}