I agree. I’ll take a 100km/h + wide shoulder over a 60+km/h with zero shoulder any day.

Ant – to be honest the two scariest pain points from Rolleston have been addressed, with the Weedons overbridge bypassing the “gateway of doom”, and with Manion Road and the shared pathway removing the narrowest parts of Jones Road. The remaining bits of Jones and Waterloo are not ideal, but they are “better”.

I found it noteworthy that the road-works redirection arrows were sending town-bound cyclists onto SH1 from the shared pathway at Dawsons, then into the 100 km/h passing lane toward Templeton. But having ridden it a bit, the shoulder is a lot wider so its not “too” bad. It’s absolutely not great being on a 100 km/h road, but 100km/h+shoulder is better than 60+km/h with zero shoulder IMO. (a nice smooth free-flowing shared pathway is completely preferred of course!)

“Let drivers learn and exhibit bad behaviors, without penalty and then have to un-learn them” ? Seems like the hardest row to hoe.

I tend to find that there’s a bit of leeway given until the actual cycleway markings are down…