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And we’re off – Grafton Gully Cycleway
Many thanks to all of those who rose in the dark to join the celebration of the start of work on this major cycling project. The dawn event was full of atmosphere and portent. Ngati Whatua were...
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Breakfast Conversation Session: Cycling & Auckland Issues – Thur 6 Dec
It’s been a great year for breakfast sessions – it’s wonderful to welcome new faces every month along with growing number of regulars. Please join us for this year’s final session at the Art Gallery...
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Waitemata Greenways – Maps & Invite to Event
More details on the Greenways plan of the Waitemata Local Board! High-quality maps of the proposed routes are now available (PDF with 3 pages of maps). . . They are still teasing us by noting on their...
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Breakfast Conversation Session: Cycling & Auckland Issues – Thur 7 Feb
Please join us for this year’s first session at the Art Gallery Cafe! Good conversation on the big issues for Auckland cycling, transport and city design. It’s informal and all welcome… No need to...
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Riding up the hill of bitter memories
The Auckland Domain, at first glance, may appear a quite typically English park. Lots of imported deciduous trees shading the slopes, and on mowed green lawns, you see people playing cricket. It takes...
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Cycle growth continues & Grafton Bridge numbers
The reporting was on hiatus for two months, and then failed to appear in time for AT’s last board meeting, but we finally have the cycle count stats for December 2012 and January 2013 (see last page of...
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Getting Greenways Right
By John Mauro As a new Auckland resident, it was a thrill to ride down to the Waitemata Greenways event a few weeks ago. An opportunity to learn about how Greenways work and give feedback on the...
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Cycling on the motorway
A message from Matter, good friends of cycling and CAA Saturday the 23rd of March is Auckland’s annual festival of creative thinking, Urbis Design Day. This sees designers partnering with suppliers to...
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Motorway madness – bring on the bikes!
Look at this. Just look at this – that motorway is all jammed up. Bikes to the rescue! The art installation from Matter on the Nelson Street off-ramp is shaping up fabulously. Go see it this Saturday!
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Breakfast Conversation Session: Cycling & Auckland Issues – Thur 4 April
Hasn’t it been a wonderful summer for cycling to work? Make the most of the morning by joining us at the Art Gallery Cafe for our April conversation session. Informal and all welcome… No need to...
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Calling – this time – all Waitemata cyclists to the AHB
Repeating the event recently held on the northern side of the bridge, the SkyPath Trust and the Waitemata Local Board invite you to a meeting Thursday next week (11 April). What will the walk and...
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Glow by bike – Queen’s Wharf
Another winter cycling event – this one’s a drop-in for the CBD! Prizes for the best lit-up bikes / cyclists, so glow away! Also: free coffee and bike mechanic checks for everyone else. When: 4pm-7pm,...
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Quickpost: Stage 1 of Grafton Gully Cycleway Photo
For those who are curious, but haven’t been out that way recently, here are a few photos of the Grafton Gully Cycleway’s first stage (between Grafton Road, at the Business School, and Alten Road /...
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Grafton Gully Cycleway – First stage opens in July
Guest blog by Jala Shekho, NZTA Kia Ora – It’s Jala Shekho, representing the NZ Transport Agency on the Grafton Gully Cycleway project. Great news! For those who cycle, walk or drive past the...
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What does the CRL announcement mean for cycling?
Some ruminations on the City Rail Link announcements… Well, first off, it means that the average Aucklander – and the average politician – will eventually see that there ARE alternatives to the car in...
View ArticleNZTA welcomes early bird cyclists to Stage 1 of Grafton Gully Cycleway
Kia Ora – Jala here again – from the NZ Transport Agency. I just wanted to give you all a quick update on the Grafton Gully Cycleway. Great news – the team are ready to open the 300-metre long section...
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Meet you at the Beach (Road Cycleway)
Get ready to see cycling in the lower CBD take off, because we can finally reveal the “missing piece” tying together some of the most important cycleway projects in the Central City!!! As you will have...
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First part of Grafton Gully Cycleway now open! [Updated]
For the icy temperatures, we had a great turnout of cyclists at this morning’s opening of the first stage of the Grafton Gully Cycleway, between Grafton Road and Alten Road. Myself and two of CAA’s...
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The West Side, East Side (Cycle) Story
If you aren’t a cycle courier, you probably think that cycle infrastructure in downtown Auckland needs some work – whether or not you have ever tried it for yourself. So how do we achieve the Council...
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Waterfront Auckland gets into the Bike Hire game
Another tidbit – not much detail yet, but Waterfront Auckland has announced (see at right) that from October they will be hiring out (apparently for free for 2hrs!) bikes on the Waterfront, at both...
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