Northwestern Cycleway
shared pathway in Auckland, New Zealand
The Northwestern Cycleway, sometimes also referred to as the North West or Northwestern Cycle Route, is a 12 km mostly off-road cycle route in New Zealand that connects the Auckland CBD with the suburb of Westgate. For most of its length, it runs alongside the Northwestern Motorway (State Highway 16).
The cycleway is used (as of March 2013) by approximately 800 users daily at the St Lukes Road intersection, approximately 750 daily at the Great North Road intersection, and approximately 650 daily at the Te Atatū intersection (some but not all users would have been counted at all three locations). For the St Lukes Road intersection, this represents a 70% growth since regular counts started in 2007.
History
The original path was built by Waitakere City Council and Auckland City Council on land leased from Transit New Zealand. It originally only connected from Te Atatū 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. The overbridge was completed in 2004 as the (then) last major piece of the Northwestern Cycleway, and later won "Best cycle facility project" in the 2004 CAN Cycle Friendly Awards.
Kingsland upgrade
In 2009–2010, the NZ Transport Agency constructed a previously-missing section in the Kingsland area, where cyclists to this point were forced to detour through a hilly residential area. The project cost $3.7m for approximately 1.2 km length, including five new access points, noise walls alongside the motorway and landscaping. The new path section was opened in April 2010, costing $3.7m (though much of this cost was in fact for new motorway noise walls for local residents) and was very well received by cyclists and the local cycle advocacy groups Cycle Action Auckland (now Bike Auckland).
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