Links to Glen Innes Cycleways: A Local’s Call for Completion
Charmaine from Bike Eastern Suburbs shares her anticipation as a local for the network of protected cycleways that will be provided by the Links to Glen Innes Cycleways project. She encourages Auckland Transport to “get on with it”, so we can get riding for our A to B!
Quickfire have-your-say guide: Safe Walking and Cycling Connections around Albany
The Bike Auckland Infrastructure Team have done their official submission on Auckland Transport’s Safe Walking and Cycling Connections around Albany have-your-say. If you live, work, or travel about this part of the city, please get in there and have your say, too!
Greenlane West not living up to its name
Riding through Cornwall Park you see so many people strolling, jogging, wheeling, picnicking, watching animals and smelling flowers. It’s also a particularly safe location to learn and build confidence on their bikes. Lucy Ruck writing to the NZ Herald ponders why accessing the park without a car isn’t easy and is downright unsafe if you try by bike.
It’s time to loop the Loop: world class wayfinding on Auckland’s City Centre Loop
The City Centre Loop was a disparate collection of six mismatched projects which weren’t easy to navigate. The work to link them through best practice wayfinding design has resulted in a world class set of design guidelines which will reach well beyond the Tāmaki Makaurau CBD.
The link between inequality, mobility, and accessibility
Bike Auckland’s Chief Biking Officer Fiáin d’Leafy explains how our inequitable transport system will be exacerbated by the upcoming closures of train lines – and the opportunity Auckland Transport and […]
Pop a bike lane here! #safersmartersooner
Here at Bike Auckland, we love a good bike path. Nothing puts a smile on someone’s face like cruising down a sea of pink on Te Ara i Whiti, smelling […]
Better Great than Never – Great North Road finally getting bikeways?
After many years of inaction, is 2021 the year Auckland Transport finally makes progress on better biking and better buses on Great North Road, with a new project? If you […]
Greener on the other side? – Greenfields housing and Auckland Cycling
People who want to see Auckland improving for bikes often look at our horribly slow roll-out of new bikeways and despair. Is throwing millions of dollars per kilometre on some […]
It’s time to take a lane: What Auckland can learn from Vancouver’s Burrard Bridge
Thanks to Michael Tritt, founder and director of Electrify NZ, for these important words. In 2008, I did the one-year “OE working holiday”, travelling with my wife to live and […]
