Public Address | Cafe | Hard News: With regard to place https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address Geoff Lealand https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374809#post374809 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374809#post374809 Tue, 08 Aug 2017 21:44:47 +1200 Stuart Young https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374472#post374472 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374472#post374472 Wed, 02 Aug 2017 12:06:07 +1200 Logan O'Callahan https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374470#post374470 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374470#post374470 I'm looking forward to using the Alford St bridge for the next 8 weeks. I'll be cycling west from Pt Chev to New Lynn each morning, and it will cut off the lower part of Gt North Rd with that terrible piece of footpath.

Why do cycle ways meander, while…

]]> Wed, 02 Aug 2017 11:29:32 +1200 davesparks https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374416#post374416 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374416#post374416 NW Cycleway – and I reckon the meander thru Unitec to the crossing on Carrington is a mite flatter… ]]> Tue, 01 Aug 2017 12:01:18 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374411#post374411 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374411#post374411 I hope all the curmudgeonly old farts who go on about the RMA being a lot of PC lefty nonsense strangling all possible development will check this all out.

But isn't the irony that all this was a result of the Board of Inquiry, which was Joyce's bid to bypass…

]]> Tue, 01 Aug 2017 07:29:23 +1200 Ben Boo https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374410#post374410 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374410#post374410 Meanwhile in Wellington UCP money is spent on car park renovation...
https://twitter.com/tohora/status/889952728226471936

]]> Mon, 31 Jul 2017 23:03:46 +1200 LeighKennaway https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374409#post374409 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374409#post374409 Mon, 31 Jul 2017 21:15:39 +1200 Moz https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374408#post374408 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374408#post374408 rejection of my bid to join a local social cycling group because I have an ebike ... "when Dylan went electric (s"

I love that line, it's in one of my favourite Urthboy tracks: https://youtu.be/cB_ZkHGMoII?t=117 (decent audio player suggested)

ebikes on social rides shouldn't be an issue I would have…

]]> Mon, 31 Jul 2017 20:55:36 +1200 Geoff Lealand https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374406#post374406 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374406#post374406 Must bring my bike up this weekend and go for a spin.
I told a story when I was chatting with Jesse M on Bookmarks last week, about the crushing rejection of my bid to join a local social cycling group because I have an ebike. Said it felt a…

]]> Mon, 31 Jul 2017 17:28:52 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374405#post374405 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374405#post374405 Is that right (all the way to Mangere Bridge)? I hadn’t realised you could get that far. That is quite something.

Yep. It stops for a few crossings along the way, but it's traffic-free.

Well, almost. Taking the cheap option a few years ago with the stretch from Hillsborough Road…

]]> Mon, 31 Jul 2017 14:57:51 +1200 Sam M https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374404#post374404 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374404#post374404 Mon, 31 Jul 2017 14:45:50 +1200 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374403#post374403 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374403#post374403 but it would be impossible to climb on the arch anyway.
Oh I dunno, 'Impossible' is a red rag to some – some kind of electromagnetic or suction glove and knee pad arrangement might be worth a crack – or even something strong and porous that could use the spikes…

]]> Mon, 31 Jul 2017 14:41:06 +1200 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374402#post374402 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374402#post374402 The Builders...
Nowadays down here in Chchch we know a thing or two about infrastructure, it is no longer infra dig to the masses.

We have seen it in all kinds of states,
and seen not a lot of connected thinking/planning,
coupled with disaster capitalism and ‘people-who-know-best’.

Witness when you…

]]> Mon, 31 Jul 2017 14:30:26 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374401#post374401 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374401#post374401 This may not be the place to ask, but does anyone know what is going on with the path from this bit through to New Lynn? It is on the Council AT Website as a project but there has been no updates for over a year and no progress that… ]]> Mon, 31 Jul 2017 14:27:56 +1200 Rosemary McDonald https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374400#post374400 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374400#post374400 Never underestimate the power of “Teh stupids” to give it a try. ;-)

Indeed.

Not the first time this bridge had become a pathway for two wheelers. Way back, in the post war era, an old friend was horrified when neighbours informed her that Number Two Son, all of eight…

]]> Mon, 31 Jul 2017 14:08:08 +1200 Sam M https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374398#post374398 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374398#post374398 Mon, 31 Jul 2017 14:02:00 +1200 Dave Waugh https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374397#post374397 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374397#post374397 Impossible?
Never underestimate the power of "Teh stupids" to give it a try. ;-)

]]> Mon, 31 Jul 2017 13:56:05 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374396#post374396 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374396#post374396 The “feathers” detail I would suspect is a “this’ll stop the buggers climbing up here” feature…. that or a variant on the anti bird installations you see all over the show in Wellington CBD.

I guess that might be the case – but it would be impossible to climb on…

]]> Mon, 31 Jul 2017 13:43:49 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374395#post374395 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374395#post374395 That’s a very low balustrade, on the bridge that crosses the exposed motorway!

I’d have thought they would have applied the same thinking and structures that now stop people throwing things, or themselves, off Grafton Bridge.*

Yeah,interesting point – especially when you look at what was done over the Pink…

]]> Mon, 31 Jul 2017 13:42:17 +1200 Rickai https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374394#post374394 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374394#post374394 Mon, 31 Jul 2017 13:41:06 +1200 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374393#post374393 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374393#post374393 That's a very low balustrade, on the bridge that crosses the exposed motorway!

I'd have thought they would have applied the same thinking and structures that now stop people throwing things, or themselves, off Grafton Bridge.*


*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_AO6JhmNDM

]]> Mon, 31 Jul 2017 13:27:14 +1200 Bart Janssen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374392#post374392 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374392#post374392 Mon, 31 Jul 2017 13:22:02 +1200 Moz https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374391#post374391 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374391#post374391 That all looks awesome.

I fear the chicanes are there to stop load bikes and people with trailers. They look inconvenient, but with my quad bike they'd be just about impossible. Quad and trailer is expressly designed to let me sit a 2.4x1.2m sheet of plywood on top of it,…

]]> Mon, 31 Jul 2017 13:20:14 +1200 Dave Waugh https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374390#post374390 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374390#post374390 Mon, 31 Jul 2017 13:11:08 +1200 Bart Janssen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374389#post374389 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374389#post374389 We also spent Sunday riding all over these paths. Absolutely love the new bridges and love they way they are all different – they almost become art pieces on the landscape.

We (I) goofed riding east and ended up on the old footpath which follows the creek and isn't really…

]]> Mon, 31 Jul 2017 13:05:30 +1200 Bart Janssen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374388#post374388 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374388#post374388 And, unfashionable as it might be to say so, the Waterview Connection is doing its job of taking traffic off local roads. That might not last, but it's very welcome for now.

Hell yeah! Mt Albert road is significantly quieter now. Quiet enough even to consider a proper cycle path…

]]> Mon, 31 Jul 2017 12:55:55 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374387#post374387 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374387#post374387 So, Friday we did the Waterveiw….and either I’m in recovery, or this is an especially well designed piece of infrastructure.

And, unfashionable as it might be to say so, the Waterview Connection is doing its job of taking traffic off local roads. That might not last, but it's very welcome…

]]> Mon, 31 Jul 2017 12:38:11 +1200 Rosemary McDonald https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374386#post374386 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374386#post374386 Coincidentally, as you were taking your photos Russell, I was driving our Bus through The Tunnel.

I have a more than slight tunnel and bridge phobia...so Peter, as The Navigator, tries to desensitize me by plotting journeys so they encompass as many of these structures as possible.

So, Friday we…

]]> Mon, 31 Jul 2017 12:33:18 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374385#post374385 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374385#post374385 Some more on day one from Bike Auckland.

And from the same site, a look at the opening of the Alford Street bridge.

]]> Mon, 31 Jul 2017 12:19:10 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374384#post374384 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374384#post374384 Mon, 31 Jul 2017 12:04:00 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374383#post374383 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374383#post374383 Mon, 31 Jul 2017 12:01:43 +1200 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374382#post374382 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-with-regard-to-place/?p=374382#post374382 Discussion from blog post.

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