In November 2024, Wellington City Council voted to retain the Golden Mile project with full funding in the Long Term Plan 2024-34.

Construction of the Golden Mile Revitalisation is planned to start in 2025 on Cambridge and Kent Terrace. We are yet to confirm an exact date but are committed to ensuring affected stakeholders and businesses have adequate notice for their planning.

You can contact the team leading this project with any enquiries at courtenay@wcc.govt.nz.

We’re revitalising the Golden Mile to connect people across the central city with a reliable transport system that is in balance with an attractive pedestrian environment. Creating a safe and beautiful heart of the city with generous spaces for people to shop, work and play by shifting the focus to public transport, walking and cycling.

The Golden Mile project aims to improve bus reliability and provide opportunities for walking, cycling, and more open spaces. This means better lighting, wider footpaths, more public seating, outdoor dining opportunities and more.

Revitalising areas of the Golden Mile will create a more vibrant and welcoming place to live, work and play as well as make it safer to get around.

Wellington’s unique geography, compact city, and small number of road networks means we face unique transport challenges. To make improvements and create a more liveable central city, we must make decisions around how we use the space we have, which means moving more people with fewer vehicles.

New and improved ways of getting around means we won’t need to depend on cars to access the central city as often, which will help make Wellington a more liveable city and cut back on our carbon emissions. This is about building a better future for the city, the region, it’s people and the planet.

The ‘Golden Mile’ is the main retail and commercial strip from the Parliament end of Lambton Quay, along Willis and Manners Streets, to the entertainment hub of Courtenay Place. The Golden Mile is a valuable asset for our city and region. It’s our high street, it’s where we meet, and it’s the main route for buses bringing people into and through the central city. It’s the city’s busiest pedestrian area and our prime employment, shopping, and entertainment destination.