Beyond separation anxiety: traffic calming & self-enforcing streets
A guest blog by Mat Collins, engineer and cycling dad, on quick cheap and local alternatives to fully separated bike lanes. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, it’ll be […]
The Bikeable Back Yard – How the Inner West Will Be Won!
UPDATE: Consultation closes soon on the Pt Chev to City safe cycle routes! Here’s the link for online feedback – or you can use the leaflet sent out by mail/ picked up […]
Ngapipi Road, Tamaki Drive – Russian Roulette with delays!
Another person on a bike has been injured at Auckland’s worst cycling blackspot, Tamaki Drive / Ngapipi Road. Details are sketchy so far, but it seems that despite the crash involving […]
Franklin, my dears: we do give a damn
We all share a love of bikes and the joy and freedom of riding around Auckland. Cycle Action is about celebrating and evangalising this lifestyle, of course. But we’re also […]
Northcote Safe Cycle Route Update – a pragmatic win
It’s a sad fact of life for engineers designing cycling infrastructure that the sacred cow of on-street parking frequently frustrates good design. We see vociferous opposition from residents and businesses […]
Getting better, the further you go… Carlton Gore Road
One of the more hopeful trends in Auckland’s “three step forwards, two steps back” cycling world is that things do get better. You can often tell the quality of a […]
UPDATED – Obesity and cycling: The NZ disconnect
UPDATED UPDATE: And Chris Boardman in the UK has also named cycling as a great way to combat obesity. UPDATE: I thought this post deserved a bump when I saw […]
Halving our progress
At the end of the previous financial year (2012/2013), we ran a blog showing how slow bikeway construction in Auckland was going – only ~10 km built in one year, […]
Franklin Road proposal: AT must do better
Auckland Transport has now released its plan for Franklin Road (or download the PDF brochure here) which runs from Victoria Park up to Ponsonby Road. It is a steep road […]
