Bike the Bridge

Awesome news!!!!

Government to fully fund walking and cycling Skypath over Auckland Harbour Bridge The Skypath alongside Auckland's Harbour Bridge will be fully-funded by the Government.

Aucklanders love cycling 🚴🏻‍♀️ 🚵‍♀️ 🚴 Always have, always will!
📷 The Waitemata Cycling Club, College Hill, Auckland, 1885. Ref: 1/2-023356-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.

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. Stage 9 on the ancient cobbled roads build by the Romans it was drama with crashes galore and possible race winners crashing out.
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Who else loved the cobblestones but is glad we don’t have to deal with them during
Amazing capture 🚴📷💥

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Did you know that 38% of Aucklanders now ride a bike? 🚴 That’s 518,000 people! Find out more in our 2018 Active Modes Research: AT.govt.nz/cyclingreports

On this day on 30 May 1959, Auckland Harbour Bridge opened, after 4 years of construction.

Better transport links between Auckland City and the North Shore had been needed for quite some time - in the 1950s, the Auckland Harbour Bridge Authority was set up to raise funds and organise construction.

The original four lanes design proved inadequate, and in September 1969, two lanes, pre-fabricated in Japan, were added on each side, using pioneering technology.

For more images on the building of the Harbour Bridge, visit our Collections Online - https://bit.ly/2xhxEeu

Awesome news, well done Auckland Transport Cycling.

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Come along and meet Evie!

interesting concept. Anyone else know of something similar or keen to follow their lead?

This small Christchurch business offers employees up to $10 a day to bike to work Christchurch business will give its employees lump sum at end of year based on how much they biked to work.