The future is coming – can Ponsonby Road catch up in time?
The cycling renaissance, like every sea-change, comes with waves. Sometimes a lot of them. Through the grapevine, we hear that a few retailers may make waves about the fact their road is included […]
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 Island Bay Cycleway – Terribly Important and Nothing New
Professor Alistair Woodward, from the School of Population Health at Auckland University, takes a look at the heated discussion around Wellington’s newest cycleway… and discover it’s deja vu all over again. (This […]
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 […]
Time to get cross… on Upper Queen Street
As Auckland builds more inner-city cycleways, it’s crucial to link them up and make getting on and off as easily as possible. A decade ago, it was pretty well “accepted” that […]
[Updated] Parks are for people – a fresh masterplan for the Domain
Update: due to high interest in the Domain Masterplan and especially in the cycleways aspect, the Domain Committee Chair has now extended the public consultation period to 24 March. Have at […]
Can busways and cycleways exist together?
In recent years, Bike Auckland has noticed a troubling trend: When long-term plans for road upgrades are drawn up, the planners and engineers trying to allocate space for moving cars, […]
A year of revolutions – 2015 bike highlights in review!
2015 was a phenomenal year for Auckland bike culture. Things are really changing, inexorably and permanently. Our utopian hearts want citywide revolution NOW (if we could only wave a wand and create bikeable streets […]
The Gift of the Magi: a decision on Franklin Road
Last night we got the news about what’s in the Christmas stocking for people on bikes along Franklin Road, come next year’s full-scale upgrade of the whole road. As you know, […]
