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Walk this way

When heading into central Wellington recently, I found myself walking into what felt like a sea of people on Lambton Quay who were going the other way. And they weren’t keeping left, despite there being lots of Covidinspired footpath stickers telling them what to do. What the …?

It feels to me as if there’s been a slow, disheartening erosion

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