A push to prioritise people over cars on Auckland's main street.

Auckland Central MP Chlöe Swarbrick and the City Centre Residents' Group are calling for the council to pedestrianise Queen Street, changing it from a thoroughfare to a destination.

They say it will transform the area into a cultural hub and living space for 40,000 residents.

Chlöe Swarbrick told Andrew Dickens you only have to look at George Street in Sydney to see how the idea can succeed.

She says they closed four and half thousand square metres to traffic.

Swarbrick says they committed to their plan and it got even better - and no one can imagine it going back to the way it was.

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