Keeping the Queen clean

I WENT TO A CLAMBAKE THE other day: a gathering not far under a Covid-mandated maximum crowd size. We were gathered to talk about Queen Street. Despite it being billed as a co-design session, it seemed only Tony van Raat and I represented designers though, perhaps, there was a raft of related trades lurking in the crowd of property owners, users, residents of the valley and several bureaucrats from city hall.

For those who have not ventured north for a while, the street is in pretty bad shape, bearing the impact of an increasing number of buses, evicted from their normal routes by the rail tunnel work on Albert Street. There is also a bewildering