Auckland University bike parks

[Tickler]

Well he is a rider! He was asked to ride the lead bike for last month's WestPac Helicopter Run.

Yes, that all good and well, but was he up yelling at the top of his voice to support bikers when ltsa wanted to charge the organisers $10,000 to close roads, effectively killing all profit for the helicopter trust?

he seemed a bit more keen to have a waterfront stadium.

[Forest]

Yes, that all good and well, but was he up yelling at the top of his voice to support bikers when ltsa wanted to charge the organisers $10,000 to close roads, effectively killing all profit for the helicopter trust?

he seemed a bit more keen to have a waterfront stadium.

Transit was the group that wanted money from the rally organisers.

Transit is a central government body - it has nothing to do with the Auckland City Council.

[xwhatsit]

People in suits and safety vests with clipboards and mobile phones were running around Alfred St today pointing and frowning and talking today. In particular they were pointing and stroking their chins at the array of bikes parked along almost the entire length of Alfred St.

I'm barely able to fit my bike in (I had to park on the footpath today, up against the theatre building) as it is, let alone if they toasted Alfred St.

[Chisanga]

People in suits and safety vests with clipboards and mobile phones were running around Alfred St today pointing and frowning and talking today. In particular they were pointing and stroking their chins at the array of bikes parked along almost the entire length of Alfred St.

I'm barely able to fit my bike in (I had to park on the footpath today, up against the theatre building) as it is, let alone if they toasted Alfred St.

That was probably the first time anybody from the council got out of their nice comfy offices to actually look at the problem.

They need to act BEFORE they close Alfred St. to open up HEAPS more parking otherwise it's going to be a shambles.

And I thought there wasn't as many bikes yeasterday morning parked up due to the rain in the morning.

I notice a load of bikes parking in the loading zone outside the gym on Symonds St, a couple of them had parking tickets shoved under their seat strap

[Toaster]

It's the sort of thing they will need in Albany city as that gets built over the next 5-10 years. The plans as they are don't provide enough roading or parking for such a big development.

[Gremlin]

The plans as they are don't provide enough roading or parking for such a big development.

I don't know about the rest of the country, but its a specialty of planning in Auckland. A new college was built out east, in a rapidly expanding new subdivision. Colleges in the area were all over 2000 pupils. So of course they built it with a capacity of... 1500.

Now they have to build more... we could all have told them that before...

[NZHog]

Spending over a million dollars because students are no longer taught how to cross the road...
Of course also giving the council an opportunity to once again go off half-cocked.
Buses & delivery vehicles will still be permitted,so therefore an outstanding waste of taxpayers funds.
Give the Munchy mart guy a Taser & let him "educate" the students who step out in front of vehicles...

[xwhatsit]

Spending over a million dollars because students are no longer taught how to cross the road...
Of course also giving the council an opportunity to once again go off half-cocked.
Buses & delivery vehicles will still be permitted,so therefore an outstanding waste of taxpayers funds.
Give the Munchy mart guy a Taser & let him "educate" the students who step out in front of vehicles...

Lol, the Munchy Mart guy is a tit. I don't know if we're thinking about the same guy, but he drives that delivery van like a complete arse. I fear for my life when I'm riding down/up Alfred St and he's there too.

[MacD]

Looks like the changes are going ahead soon and the motorcycle parking is being moved to Symonds Street. It will be interesting to see how much space is allocated. It used to be that just about all the spaces between the trees were for motorcycles.

The City of Auckland is implementing an interim upgrade so that the operation of the street can be changed. The first stage of the interim upgrade will be effective and occur at 6 a.m. on Monday April 2nd, 2007 and will include the following:

Removal of lane marking in Alfred St
Removal of parking and associated signage
Provision of entry restriction signage
Regulatory speed reduced from 50 km/hr to 10 km/hr
Relocation of motorcycle parking from Alfred St to Symonds St.

[Chisanga]

I wonder if they will allocate space for the 60 odd bikes that use Alfred street or create chaos and open up only around 20 or so. be interesting to see

[twinkle]

People in suits and safety vests with clipboards and mobile phones were running around Alfred St today pointing and frowning and talking today. In particular they were pointing and stroking their chins at the array of bikes parked along almost the entire length of Alfred St.

lol I can just see them thinking "oh... errrr fuck. where did all these bikes come from?"

[twinkle]

Alfred street will be much nicer without all those bloody cars though, its taken the tamaki bus more than 5min just to get out of the street some days

[Indiana_Jones]

OK guys.

I happen to work for the people working on Alfred street.

They are moving the bike parking onto Symonds street. I think one of the guys said some near the science or technology building, wasn't too sure.

but the bottom line is they're keeping the parks and should be done by the 2nd of April.

Edit: I see someone has mentioned that it's moving, here is a plan of roughly where it's going to be. The one near Alfred is about 75m long and the one on the other side is just under 40m. But don't hold me to that!

-Indy

[Ixion]

But the area shown in red is ALREADY bike parking ?

[Indiana_Jones]

is it? buggered if I know. I don't park there. I'll take a look into it

looking at those plans it seems they're removing pay and display machines, how long is the cuurent park? they might just be making it longer

-Indy