page_title: Northwestern Cycleway
section_title: Kingsland upgrade
hierarchical_section_title: Northwestern Cycleway / History / Kingsland upgrade
caption_attribution_description: English: Morning commuters on the Kingsland stretch of the Northwestern Cycleway
context_page_description: The Northwestern Cycleway is a 12 km mostly off-road cycle route in New Zealand that connects the Auckland CBD in Auckland City with the suburb Henderson. For most of its length, it runs alongside the Northwestern Motorway.
  The cycleway is used by approximately 800 users daily at the St Lukes Road intersection, approximately 750 daily at the Great North Road intersection, and approximately 650 daily at the Te Atatū intersection. For the St Lukes Road intersection, this represents a 70% growth since regular counts started in 2007.
context_section_description: In 2009–2010, the NZ Transport Agency constructed a previously-missing section in the Kingsland area, where cyclists to this point were forced to detour through a hilly residential area. The project cost $3.7m for approximately 1.2 km length, including five new access points, noise walls alongside the motorway and landscaping. The new path section was opened in April 2010, costing $3.7m (though much of this cost was in fact for new motorway noise walls for local residents) and was very well received by cyclists and the local cycle advocacy groups Cycle Action Auckland (now Bike Auckland).
caption: Commuters on the upgraded Kingsland stretch of the Northwestern Cycleway, 2017
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