Comments on: Annual Plan 25/26 brings some good cycling news

By: Robert Fleming

Robert Fleming — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 03:22:46 +0000

Smith Street is an example of a win win for residents who don’t enjoy living on a street where traffic speeds can be excessive and for those who need to bike along there. It’s a big improvement. The small stuff is really important to get the best out of our recently built cycle infrastrucuture. Another example was in operation for the first time today, so a huge shout out to CCC and Kiwirail. Light controlled crossings for pedestrians and cyclists at Harewood Road, Langdons Road, and Sawyers Arms Road railway crossings are here.

Our Wednesday Wheelies Bike Group enjoyed a direct ride along the Northern Line Cycleway today from Kilmarnock Street to Northwood. Something not possible until now as the Harewood and Langdons Road crossings were not only inconvenient to traverse in a group but potentially unsafe. As if to celebrate the occasion the sensors kicked in lickety split and there was barely a stop at any of the three crossings. Joyful stuff.

By: Jackson Davey

Jackson Davey — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 21:59:46 +0000

Interestingly the smith street cycleway that’s in the 1st image is already done. Its just traffic calming and sharrows for the most part but it’s a nice connection from ferry road and connects up two schools and a fair few shops to the rapanui shag rock cycleway (and the ancient 12 bike route). Seems that the plan for more secondary cycleways that connect to the main ones is already paying off.

By: LennyBoy

LennyBoy — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 00:35:40 +0000

In reply to Maia. Blue is bus route improvements (e.g. new shelters) and orange is pedestrian area improvements (e.g. new crossings and paths); there are a quite a few different projects under CCC's Way Safer Streets programme. I switched off the icons for these to avoid distraction but it didn't remove the underlying colours.

By: Maia

Maia — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 21:42:51 +0000

Great to see some progress coming, despite the Government and certain Councillor headwinds. We’ll see more of a network effect when these links are completed, and it’s particularly excellent to see Te Aratai College getting that safe link. Ensors/Aldwins is so unsafe that I completely refuse to cycle there at the moment. After all, one of the first things in safe cycling is choosing safe routes.
Where is the first image from please, and what do the blue and orange lines mean? Is that more on-road cycle lanes coming, while the teal/green denotes separated infrastructure?