Subscribe to RSSTamaki Drive Bike Safety Plans
Cyclists and motorists have only about a fortnight to have their final say on the contentious issue of Tamaki Drive safety.
The new Auckland City Council measures happen from June, including plans for - between Bastion Point and Okahu Bay- a city-bound cycle lane (from Atkin Avenue to Kelly Tarlton) to minimise traffic conflict at pinch points but without losing car parking.
The council says its proposed improvements will create a safer, more usable road space for motorists, cyclists and pedestrians, and will be concentrated on four areas of Tamaki Drive: Solent Street to Ngapipi Road, Kelly Tarlton’s to Atkin Avenue, Marau Crescent to Kohimarama Road, and Sage Road to Auckland Road.
They will include:
- morning and evening clearways at specific points
- new city-bound cycle lanes at specific points
- anti-skid treatment at known crash locations
- ramps from the on-road cycleway to the off-road cycleway in the vicinity of Parnell Baths
- portable electronic speed indicator signs.
Riding safely on the waterfront
Feedback closes May 10.
You can see the plans and submit your feedback online here
6 Comments
A mixed bag, but some good stuff too. How are the clearways supposed to help cyclists, though?
@ingolfson - more useable road space I guess… and less dodging opening car doors?
Why don’t cyclists just use the cycle/foot path?
@Andrew C: Because they are full of broken glass, telephone poles, pedestrians and in the car door zone
Maybe because there IS no cycle-foot path westbound?
Just try using a 1.2m wide cycle path (into which absent-minded pedestrians step into all the time) in BOTH directions at the same time…
Andrew, there is no cycle lane. There is a footpath they painted a white line down the middle of one day.
Even if you could get all the walkers, joggers, view-watchers, dog exercisers etc to stay on one side of the line, it would only be about a metre wide and still be full of poles, parking signs, trees, low hanging branches etc.