Posts by Max Robitzsch
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Hard News: Waterview: The giant up the road, in reply to Glenn Pearce,
Jumped the fence at Eric Armishaw park a couple of months ago too
Ah, so you walked the Dinosaur already?
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Hard News: Waterview: The giant up the road, in reply to Russell Brown,
this is how the greenway connects to Great North Road.
Ugly… considering for a fraction of percent more on the total spend they could have put a Te Atatu style underpass in here.
That would have been so much better.
Still, I think there's to be a direct path down from your old shop on the GNR- Carrington corner, which is good.
Yes, but sadly that bit will be horrible, wedged tight between ~5 lanes of GNR and 10 (!) motorway lanes, with not even greenery in the worst section, from memory. As I said in a tweet once, the area reminds me of the Matrix reloaded bleak car chase scene freeway nowadays...
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Hard News: Waterview: The giant up the road, in reply to Russell Brown,
> Same. It's impossible not to be impressed by how it's been executed.
They had a lot of money, AND an alliance model (where pain and gain of all contractors AND client is shared). Makes for efficient delivery of large projects.
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Hard News: Waterview: The giant up the road, in reply to Angela Hart,
the ability to have one tiny little bit of lane dedicated to bicycles that don't want to go up to Pt Chev, cross a very busy road and then back down again through a golf course was somehow lost. They built lanes for trucks to access the works about 6 times during the process and every time my heart would leap! Could this be the bike lane? But no, it's pretty clear now that the concrete cliff where that lane would go is final. Biking infrastructure has essentially remained unchanged on the south side
We tried. We really did. Before we even got to propose it, they had already used up all the space under the Carrington Road bridge for car lanes... and the weren't going to replace the bridge just for a cycleway improvement. We had our hands full ensuring we got the new cycleway along SH20 and some other improvements. This was a "bridge to far", sadly. But we won the main cycleway, the underpass at Te Atatu, and a few smaller wins.
Plus the strange idea of some OTHER submitter - who even paid for a traffic expert - to get an extra westbound onramp in front of Oakley Creek hospital (where the cycleway is) was pushed back. Good. That would have made it ~17 lanes there. 16 enough, eh?
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Did you folks know that the bridge over Oakley Creek was originally supposed to be at Phyllis Reserve (near Blockhouse Bay Intersection)? Photo back from 2010, when I was preparing the Cycle Action Auckland submission...
