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Story: Streets and lighting

One-way street

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One-way street

Increasing traffic congestion on inner-city streets led to the introduction of one-way systems to better manage traffic flows. Wellington’s Featherston Street was made one-way in 1970. This photo shows peak-hour traffic on the morning of the change.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1970/0362/33-F

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Adrian Humphris, Streets and lighting – Street standards and planning, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/24482/one-way-street (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Adrian Humphris, published 6 April 2010.