Northwestern Cycleway

Northwestern Cycleway
The cycle overbridge over Great North Road, near Point Chevalier. It was opened in 2004 as the (then) last major piece of the Northwestern Cycleway.[1]
Cyclists on the cycleway in Te Atatu.

The Northwestern Cycleway (sometimes also referred to as the North West or Northwestern Cycle Route) is a 12 km[2] mostly off-road cycle route connecting the Auckland CBD in Auckland City with Henderson, Waitakere City in New Zealand. For most of its length, it runs alongside the Northwestern Motorway (State Highway 16).[3]

A cyclist count study for the Auckland Regional Transport Authority found that at the Great North Road section of the cycleway, the average daily number of users in 2008 was 532, a gain of 59% compared to the year before.[4] In 2010, this success trend continued, with an increase of 70% over the 2007 levels to over 600 cyclists.[5]

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History

The original path was built by Waitakere City Council and Auckland City Council on land leased from Transit New Zealand.[6] It originally only connected from Te Atatu to Waterview, before being extended in the early 2000s a further 5 km east towards the city, with a new overbridge over Great North Road, completed in 2004, connecting these two original sections.[1][7]

Kingsland upgrade

In November 2009, the NZTA started construction on a missing section in the Kingsland area, where cyclists to this point were forced to detour through a hilly residential area. The project was to cost $3m for approximately 1.2 km length, including several new planned side accesses (five side accesses were eventually constructed).[2][8] Costs are relatively high due to the need to work around underground services, and to bridge Mountain View Road where it crosses under the motorway.[citation needed] After completion of the path itself, fences and noise walls will be replaced, and landscaping replanted.[9]

The new path section was opened in April 2010, costing $3.7 (though much of this cost was in fact for new motorway noise walls for local residents)[8] and was very well received by cyclists and the local cycle advocacy groups Cycle Action Auckland.[8][10]

Western & CBD extension

NZTA intends to improve and extend the path further northwest (from its current termination in Henderson up to Westgate in the coming years, as part of the planned Waterview Connection motorway upgrades.[2] The works will include improving path widths and reducing occasional flooding of the cycleway on the low-lying causeway.[11]

Separate from the Waterview upgrades, as part of the Lincoln Road Interchange works, NZTA has also announced that it will extend the cycleway a further 2 km further west, from its current end at Central Park Drive to Huruhuru Road Overbridge.[12]

Together with Auckland City Council, NZTA is also investigating extending the path eastwards towards the Auckland CBD, through Spaghetti Junction, a project which is also being pushed by the Auckland Regional Council / Auckland Regional Transport Authority.[2][13] A preliminary alignment has been assessed for the cycleway to cross Spaghetti Junction and then continue to the university area in the east of the CBD via Grafton Gully. The extension is hoped to be in place as early as 2012, with later extensions to the waterfront not ruled out.[8]

Link to Waikaraka Cycleway

See also: Waikaraka Cycleway

In May 2011, the Board of Inquiry hearing the resource consent process for the Waterview Connection decided that NZTA was to set aside $8 million for the construction of an off-road surface cycleway between SH16 and the existing SH20 section in Hillsborough, as part of the tunneling project.[14] This will create a connection between the Northwestern Cycleway and the Waikaraka Cycleway.

References

  1. ^ a b "Waterview Bridge opening". Newsletter, Issue 16 (Cycle Action Auckland): pp. 2. February / March 2004. http://www.caa.org.nz/newsletters/CAANewsletter16.pdf. Retrieved 8 April 2010. 
  2. ^ a b c d Dearnaley, Mathew (3 November 2009). "$3m project will make life easier for cyclists". The New Zealand Herald. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10606925. Retrieved 1 November 2011. 
  3. ^ Bikes and cycleways (from the Auckland City Council website. Accessed 2008-08-29.)
  4. ^ Manual Cycle Monitoring in the Auckland Region - Auckland City (Gravitas Research and Strategy Limited, March 2008)
  5. ^ "Dramatic increase in cyclist numbers in Auckland". Auckland Regional Transport Authority. 2 June 2010. 
  6. ^ Transit looks to assist cyclists - Highways & Byways, Newsletter of the Auckland Regional Office of Transit New Zealand, January 2001
  7. ^ "Back on your bike for some safe cycling". The New Zealand Herald. 20 August 1999. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12192. Retrieved 8 April 2010. 
  8. ^ a b c d "Cyclists eager to have last link to city". The New Zealand Herald. 16 April 2010. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/transport/news/article.cfm?c_id=97&objectid=10638707. Retrieved 6 July 2010. 
  9. ^ NZTA closing the gap (NZTA press release, Auckland Regional Office, 4 November 2009. Accessed 2009-11-08.)
  10. ^ Horrell, Rhiannon (25 November 2009). "Cycleway work begins". Auckland City Harbour News. http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/auckland-city-harbour-news/3092561/Cycleway-work-begins. Retrieved 1 November 2011. 
  11. ^ FAQ - #2 - What about cyclists and pedestrians? (from NZTA's 'SH16 Northwestern Motorway Improvements: St Lukes to Westgate' project website. Accessed 2009-12-01.)
  12. ^ "NZTA gets Lincoln Road upgrade underway". New Zealand Transport Agency press release. 29 October 2010. http://www.nzta.govt.nz/about/media/releases/937/news.html. Retrieved 17 December 2010. 
  13. ^ "Auckland Transport Plan 2009". Auckland Regional Transport Authority. pp. 33. http://www.arta.co.nz/assets/arta%20publications/2009/ATP20092019.pdf. Retrieved 25 February 2010. [dead link]
  14. ^ "Objectors get their way on towers". The New Zealand Herald. 9 May 2011. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10724374. Retrieved 26 May 2011. 

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