Car Free Day: Auckland

Published: September 17, 2008

by frog

There’s a whole bunch of South Shore Aucklanders on bikes who want to hang out with a whole bunch of North Shore Aucklanders but they can’t because there’s a small tract of water in the way and they are not allowed to pedal or walk across the bridge spanning the Waitamata Harbour.

So at 2 pm on Sunday, the day before Car Free Day, The crowd from Get Across are organising a group photo shoot in the park below the entrance to the Harbour Bridge at the Auckland City end (access from Curren Street or Westhaven Drive).

Presumably the photo will be of them looking forlornly across at the stranded North Shorians on the other side.

But, here’s the best bit. If you want to participate in the photo-shoot bike hire company Nextbike will let you ride to the photo for free on a nextbike if you haven’t used one of their bikes before. They are giving away 1 hour of riding away for anyone that registers online in the week leading up to the photo.

Well if I cycled across the bridge I’d then go anywhere other than the skytower, but the sentiment’s right.

Published in Environment & Resource Management by frog on Wed, September 17th, 2008   

Tags: Auckland, bike, car free day, Getacross, harbour bridge

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1. Kevyn

   Posted September 17, 2008 at 12:35 PM

   Why not take the photo at the North Shore end, where the toll plaza used to be, then they could all look forlornly at their missed opportunity to pay for a bridge of their very own.

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2. GW Denier

   Posted September 17, 2008 at 8:11 PM

   I will be happy to take anyone from the South to the North in my V8 on Monday if they wish. I can take 3 as I have a bike rack on the back of my car:)

   BTW, looks like Peak Oil has been posponed again. Those bloody Market Forces.

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3. Kevyn

   Posted September 17, 2008 at 8:26 PM

   GW Denier car pooling in a V8?! No wonder Peak Oil has had to be postponed again.

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4. stuey

   Posted September 17, 2008 at 9:21 PM

   GW Denier, you seem to be confusing oil production with oil price.

   It’s the former that has peaked / is at the peak now.

   Expect the price to cycle up and down for the next 20 years as recessions kill off demand leading to price cuts before economic recovery leads to increased demand and prices rising again.

   One commentator I read likened peak oil to an economic tsunami with wave after wave of recession and recovery, each recession worst than the previous.

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5. john-ston

   Posted September 18, 2008 at 10:01 AM

   “There’s a whole bunch of South Shore Aucklanders on bikes who want to hang out with a whole bunch of North Shore Aucklanders but they can’t because there’s a small tract of water in the way and they are not allowed to pedal or walk across the bridge spanning the Waitamata Harbour.”

   There is a solution to that problem. Your South Shore Aucklanders can cycle from Curran Street through to the Ferry Building, and use the ferry to get to the North Shore. You can then cycle from Devonport to meet up with the North Shore Aucklanders.

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6. GW Denier

   Posted September 18, 2008 at 10:37 PM

   Maybe the South Shore Aucklanders should go west and see their mates on the North Shore by going via Coatesville, or the Greenhithe Bridge, that will be great exercise.

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