page_title: Cycling in Auckland
section_title: Facilities
hierarchical_section_title: Cycling in Auckland / Facilities
caption_attribution_description: Cyclists on Tamaki Drive. One of the busiest cycling routes in Auckland, there are often conflicts between other road users and cyclists on this road, as well as a relatively high number of cycling accidents. Motorists often feel cyclists should use the cycle path (seen in the back, note substandard width and directly located next to narrow footpath seeing much pedestrian traffic), while pedestrians feel cyclists should not cycle (especially not at any speed) on the path. Photo: Team Performance, 2009.
context_page_description: Cycling in Auckland is a mode of transport which has historically had high levels of modal share in Auckland, New Zealand, like in most cities in New Zealand. However, the dominance of the car in the city, the negative attitudes of car drivers and general changes in transport patterns had made it a very marginal transport mode in the early 21st century, with remaining cyclists often riding for leisure and sports purposes.
  While political and infrastructure initiatives are underway to revive cycling, success is still to be solidified. As of 2005/06, only 16% of the Regional Cycle Network had been completed, which also included routes that had been built before the plan for a regional network had been adopted. In 2014, results showed that cycling mode share had stopped declining compared to previous census results, though from 0.9% in 2006, it had only risen to 1.2% of all work trips on census day. However, statistics and automatic counters show the success of cycling where higher-quality infrastructure has been installed, with nine counters across Auckland reporting annual cycle number increases of an average of 10% in 2014, a growth trend that continued in subsequent years.
context_section_description: While most cycling takes place on normal public roads, there are a small number of dedicated off-road facilities available in Auckland. In many other places, plans for on-road or off-road routes have been mooted, but not yet realised. These include recreational mountain bike trails, pump tracks (short dirt tails) and BMX tracks which are scattered around Auckland and suit different cycling abilities. One of the largest and most well known mountain bike facilities in Auckland is Woodhill Forest, which is commercial.
  Surveys show that a significant part of the population desires protected cycle facilities (i.e. off-road or separated from vehicle traffic), such facilities being desired by 55% of all respondents in an Auckland Transport study of a cross-section of Aucklanders.
  As of early 2014, the target in the Auckland Plan was for 70% of the Auckland Cycle Network to be completed by 2020, however with the current funding, Council estimates that only 40–50% will be complete at that time.
caption: Sports cyclists on Tamaki Drive, the busiest cycling route of the city (which carries a lot of commuting bicycle traffic as well and sees over 200,000 cycling trips a year),[13] Tamaki Drive often sees conflicts between motorists, pedestrians and cyclists due to the high demand of all three groups.
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