I guess they didn’t want people to end up calling it P Road

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That name is easy enough. I think people are over-reacting. Karangahape Road is fine and with English names not a single person in Wellington pronounces Majoribanks Street the same way (in fact, here are five streets in Wellington that are commonly mispronounced, all of which are English: https://wellington.govt.nz/news-and-events/news-and-information/our-wellington/2021/12/friday-five-street-names-mispronounced)

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Isn’t it almost always referred to as K road though?

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Not really, there’s been a push for people to use its full name and last time I was in Auckland everyone I spoke to did.

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The fact that people need a “push” to not shorten the name doesn’t help your argument much.

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