Comments on cycling in Dunedin from Bike Breakfast 2025

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Spokes Bike Breakfast - 25 Feb 2025

Comments made on the A3 maps, in no particular order:

  1. Pine Hill/SH1 uphill. Have to cross motorway twice. :frowning:
  2. Wickliffe St - Cars Parked on road blocks visibility for cars turning out of side roads.
  3. Portsmouth Drive Crossing. (+2)
  4. Surfaces: You should not need a mountain bike to use city bike lanes the the surfaces are quite painful.
  5. Exit of Mac Donalds on one way system - cars not looking for bikes.
  6. Frederick street is a cycling street - used by so many people. Needs a protected bike lane or 30kph. SO MUCH ROAD RAGE!
  7. George St Pedestrianisation is beautiful but too many cars driving too fast mean it is not working as intended as a shared space yet.
  8. West Harbour cycleway: railway crossing at Ravensbourne yacht club is not fit for purpose - cargo bikes, trikes, hand cycle. Please can we have an automated gate instead as per St Andrews street?
  9. St Andrews and Anzac: Currently does not suitable for cyclists. Barnes crossing please.
  10. Andersonā€™s road/Strathallan St and approaching Southern Motorway junction. Very dangerous. Make accommodations.
  11. Wharf St/Kitchener: Button for cyclists to cross Wharf Street.
  12. Glass on roads now the students are back: Can the city work with the education sector to address this?
  13. Highgate should be 30kph the whole way, not just partly because of schools.
  14. Education required to impress on motorists to give cyclists room.
  15. SH1/Great King St North: crossing where there is a blind corner . (+3)
  16. Union Street East: No cycle lanes, hostile to bikes (should be a quiet street!).
  17. Cumberland approaching S.Motorway and beyond onto Andersons Bay Rd: vague, disappearing dodgy bike lanes.
  18. Neidpath Rd: Closed of since slip last spring.
  19. SH1 cycle lanes: Not using them as too much glass, using George St instead.
  20. Lovelock Ave: Need a better entrance at bottom end. Signposting to go through cemetery as alternative route up.
  21. Vauxhall - flooding by white house (drainage issue).
  22. Request for more protected cycle lanes.
  23. Portsmouth drive most dangerous especially in poor light.
  24. End of one way southbound - what happens yet?
  25. Royal Tce/Drivers Road uphill: Drivers go straight on not realising the road swings to the right. Lines are there but clearly not noticed by drivers. Also left bend further up (opposite Queens Driver junction) cars cut the corner. Painted line/green paint would be at least somethiing (painted line starts further up just before Tolcarne Ave).
  26. Victoria Road: Slow the traffic as it narrows and gets congested towards the cafe/pool/roundabout area. (50kph by Forbury Raceway is fine but not further south).
  27. SH1 southbound: cycle path drain blocked outside Uni.
  28. Love the Barnes Dance crossings on SH1. :slight_smile:
  29. Queens Gardens - well laid out and enjoyable. :slight_smile:
  30. Lovelock Ave uphill: Recently prunedā€¦ Thanks! :slight_smile:
  31. Dundas St/Lovelock: Hard to cross Dundas.
  32. Dundas St: northside between Forth St and Harbour Terrace. pavement blocked by student parking forcing school kids onto the road.
  33. Police and DCC should inform the public more on how to share the road. (+1 ā€œMore support from Police + more info re bike rights on roadsā€).
  34. It should be more advantageous for cyclists to get around than cars so more people choose to bike!
  35. Highgate: the dip near the dairy (Fairfax St) has school kids and cyclists crossing and the speed is 50(+)kph - extremely dangerous.
  36. SH1 cycle lanes: Just how are you meant to turn right or left where the cycle lanes on the wrong side?
  37. Bikes should be allowed to cross junctions with pedestrians (slowly) as it gets them out of the way of cars when the lights change.
  38. Bikes should be allowed to turn left at lights.
  39. Cars do not seem to be able to judge safe distance from bikes (close passing).
  40. Harbour trails is a great cycle asset, we did the round trip recently (and often with European visitors). The rest of Dunedin (and very aggressive encounters with car drivers and taxis) have been shameful. We need to end the Them/Us adversarial issues and work this out. Attitudes have to change.

Many thanks to @Robyn for collecting these during the breakfast and all those who wrote the comments. I believe they give a good snapshot of cyclists views. I will pass these on to the DCC and follow them up at our next liaison meeting. (I hope my transcription is accurate - feel free to correct errors and omissions)

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