Cam Perkins, who heads up the council's City Centre Project Design team, has much bigger plans. "The rest of the street and the rest of the city," he says. And he's not joking.
The online Collins dictionary lists the word "pedestrianise" as the act of making an area intended for pedestrians, rather than vehicles. The High St changes haven't quite gone the whole hog and banned cars, which has been the sticking point for businesses along the thoroughfare for decades, afraid of losing crucial sales. But it's a big step in the right direction to making Auckland a better place to live and shop.
Hopefully, a better word can be found for "pedestrianising" too, before Perkins completes the whole city.