http://www.sbs.com.au/cyclingcentral/article/2017/04/20/cycling-work-major-new-study-suggests-health-benefits-are-staggering

Cycling to work will make you live longer.

You misread my comment. I meant the left turning lane from ST LUKES to Pt Chev and not the motorway off ramp.

They are increasingly common in Christchurch.

without knowing any details, seems more likely that Treasury turned down extra funding.

1) In relation to the "abandoned lane" on the St Lukes overbridge, I still think that might end up being used once Waterview open. If you look around Auckland there are a number of situations where it seems…

All good until you get to the touching faith in Lianne Dalziel to oppose Brownlee – which she's somewhat conspicuously failed to do since becoming Mayor. Sadly [[http://nzagainstthecurrent.blogspot.co.nz/2016/09/james-danns-amazing-political-u-turn.html|Dann seems to have become…

It also now transpires (according to The Star which is hard to link to ) that the Health Dept put the kibosh on a 700 car…

I did, after I read the road code for cyclists, about 10 years ago. It's a good idea to read it, and hook turns are a very handy solution to some intersections. Crossing to the right lane in the middle of traffic is often difficult/dangerous. Also,…

No roadside signs showing them like in CHCH though...just the green-painted box on the road in front of the crossing traffic (i.e. the traffic waiting in the direction you want to turn in).

HOWEVER....someone from the road-painting company has not been told about…

The sound of air brakes would be intimidating enough. Hence my idea to let…

You'd have to be a certifiable bus driver to want to run over a cyclist just because you can.

I’m struggling to understand how that would work, putting the cyclists beyond the pedestrian crossing from…

Not terribly many, I would say, given how frequently I see cars stopping well into the advance boxes.

Haven't seen any of those in Auckland yet. However they do somewhat rely on cars allowing cyclists to go to the front of the queue, this of course is the intended use of the green box now appearing at a lot of…

I would presume that they're the green-painted spaces that start before the advance boxes and run back along the centre-line. It's not clear what they're for, but that's the only reasonable explanation I can come up with for their existence.

From a legal perspective the cyclist may well be up for the damages caused when in the wrong. How many cyclist have third party insurance? That headlight on the flash BMW may be far…

It really defeats the point of having a cycleway.

There is of course the overarching law that drivers must avoid accidents where possible.

Essentially this means that even if the cyclist is breaking…

To give a different angle of attack, coming from the West along Gt North Rd and passing through that area, I've seen not one sausage of improvement. The cycling infrastructure…

With you on this one. That's the part I like.

The road works on that bridge and intersection cost $$$$ and seems to have been…

Important, yes. Far too common for our decision-makers to veer black-white.

However, given the…

Cycling infrastructure, as Matthew noted, depends on whether it is adjacent to a motorway. Otherwise in the Auckland region, Auckland Transport manages the whole width of the road corridor including the footpaths.

Saw that on the sea-side of Beach Rd today – they seem to have conceded defeat on their poorly-designed cycle lane alongside footpath combo and marked the cycle lane as officially walking plus cycling. Guess who loses.

It makes so much sense, in so many ways.

http://i.stuff.co.nz/auckland/91483949/two-more-gyms-proposed-for-new-zealands-largest-school-rebuild

That piece of MOTAT land is crucial

when it comes to local roads (where most people cycle) about 50% is paid for by local Council rates (in larger places like Christchurch, the proportion is typically a bit higher).…

Which is a good thing. But NZTA really fought hard to avoid that becoming accepted practice.

I think it's accepted that new motorways must now be accompanied by new cycleways.

NZTA did try and wriggle out of the part of the Waterview path…

There's a separate fund for cycle infrastructure, but it's still a shared cost between the local authority and central government if that fund is accessed. NZTA has been having to (reluctantly, let's be honest) build pedestrian/cyclist…

Not yet. It's all been pretty vague.

But I could probably live with upgraded and widened "shared path" footpaths if that's what was on…

I had a chat about it with MOTAT's CEO Michael Frawley (on Twitter) and he's wary about health…

I'm not intimate with the NZTA funding model, but this is a general approach, and the crucial…

AT are just calling the footpaths "shared paths" and saying job done. They'll do the same along western springs park (if that hasn't been done already?)