This thread is for a 2026 wish list that we would like to promote and share with the DCC. The idea is that these are “quick” (“affordable”) things that could reasonably be ticked off in 2026.
The list (version 0.7):
A safer Portsmouth Drive / Portobello Road crossing. Safe enough so that school children can use the route.
Increased clarity for cycles at Barnes Dance intersections (signage, signals, education). Albany street crossing sets a precedent?
Contra-flow cycling well indicated and signposted on George St, including intersections.
Ensure bicycles trigger sensors at intersections. Known problems - North Rd shops, George St, Queens Drive at the Moana Pool, etc. Please add to this list
Implementation of several simple uphill shared paths, i.e. Stuart St (both sides of the hill), Pitt St / Drivers Rd, Rattray St, Highgate, Eglington Rd, Opoho Rd, Signal Hill Rd, Silverton St, Highcliff Rd, Easther Cres / Middleton Rd. Warrender St.
Completion of green paint and signage on existing cycleways (i.e. George Street Nth). Make them continuous routes - helpful not just for visibility/safety but also wayfinding)
Speed reductions, speed bumps and other calming measures at key lower traffic streets - especially along the town belt.
Safer Andersons Bay Road rail underpass / southern motor junction (potentially green paint, shared path on kerb, cyclists merging signs etc).
Improve the timings for bike traffic lights on the One way system.
A quiet street trial of Leith St.
Clarify and improve maintenance / cleaning schedule of existing cycling infrastructure(including broken glass management)
Anti-glass campaign — Both the city and uni should be embarrassed about the glass problem, and both have the power to do something about it.
A Driver Education program to alert drivers to be aware of and safe around cyclists and provide adequate passing buffer.
Policy: Mandate businesses with greater than 20 parking stalls for customers must provide a secure approved bike rack near the entrance of the store proportional to the number of carparks (The Warehouse and supermarkets)
Policy: New buildings over certain size required to have a certain number of indoor bike parking (and shower stalls?) for commuters and building occupants.
Add propercycleways within 200m of all schools. Implement a city-wide cycle to school campaign.
Reconfigure barriers on paths to make them more cycling-friendly (especially for disability cycles and trailers). Especially the Port to Port cycleway.
Policy: mandate businessess with greater than 20 parking stalls for customers must provide a secure approved bike rack near the entrance of the store proportional to the number of carparks (im looking at you The Warehouse and supermarkets)
Hire Ben Ross ex Auckland Advoctate for Human-Centered Urbanism as a Dunedin City planner (He’s currerntly looking for a job) https://www.linkedin.com/in/benrossakl/
Maintain cycleways (like Port to Port) with Weed trimmers at least annually.
Tone down all the cycling barriers on Port to Port cycleway.
Add Bike Valet service at popular city sponsored events where bikes are checked in like a coat check.
Policy: New buildings of X size required X number of indoor bike parking and X number of shower stalls for commuters and building occupants.
Driver Education program to alert drivers to be aware of and safe around cyclists and provide adequate passing buffer
Increasing timeout on green bike traffic light signal to cyclists from 3 seconds to 10 seconds to allow cyclists to actually make it thru the intersection before turning red.
Commit at least 1 councilor to meeting with a spokes infrastructure advocate and “other” transport mode advocates at least 6 times per year to disucss progress on Dunedins bike strategy.
Implement a city wide cylce to school campaign and add proper cycleways within 200m of all schools.
Of these 12 sort of easy-win items, the one that seems most important to me is the Portsmouth Dr. crossing. It doesn’t frequently affect me–I just cruise on by on my way to the Peninsula–but it would scare and frustrate me if I had to make that crossing frequently.
I would include a Barnes dance at Anzac Ave and St Andrews St. Though, re the Barnes dance issue in general, one can always just hop off one’s bike, even from the right-turn lane, and walk across. Once when I did this, someone yelled at me that I was cheating. I told him it was not cheating but a superpower.
Both of these are things that the dcc are aware of and working on - the former has budget issues, but there is active discussion on options. The latter is tied up with NZTA and new hospital build.
Main thing is that we need to reduce the costs of these 12 items.
I’ve made some edits to my original list, but it would be great to have a definitive list before Bike Breakfast - I intend doing a poster about this and (ideally) recruit some people to champion each item.
Cycle crossing lights allowing crossing during pedestrian phases at all barnes dance intersections (George St). Albany St intersection to add cycle lights at all other corners.
Contra-flow cycling well signposted on George St, including intersections (see 2).
Weight sensors at all intersections recalibrated to set cyclists to trigger them (especially right-turning lanes). Known problems - North Rd shops, George St every intersection etc.
Implementation of uphill shared paths (Warrender St + ??).
Continuation of green paint on existing cycleways, to make continuous routes (helpful not just for visibility/safety but also wayfinding).
Anti-glass campaign, plus regular street sweeping to clear paths (including gravel from road-works).
Speed reductions where possible, 30kph and speed bumps.
Quiet street trials - can be very cheap involving traffic bollards to simply block off street entrances to restrict through-traffic. Examples to add.
Addition of cycle safety improvements through the Andersons Bay Rd rail underpass (potentially green paint, shared path on kerb, cyclists merging signs etc).
A Driver Education program to alert drivers to be aware of and safe around cyclists and provide adequate passing buffer.
Working with Waka Kotahi to increase cycle light phases and timings on one-ways to make paths more usable.
Hey @committee (and others) - great thoughts and comments.
The next step is to edit @frstep’s post up above and roll your suggestions into it.
Wikis take a bit of getting used to, but are super powerful once we’ve all gotten our head around them. All changes are saved in the history, and can be rolled back if they prove to be unhelpful.
I’ve summarised the ideas into a longer list in the wiki post above (I hope that’s ok Fraser), please anyone else add any other suggestions.
We collectively need to whittle the suggestions down to 12, I thought maybe a poll, or an easier low-tech version could be to simply put an ‘x’ next to your 12 preferred ones and then the most ‘x’ed ones make the cut. Once we’ve chosen 12 we can then flesh them out a bit
I don’t think that we need to whittle them down any time soon - that can come later. They all have merit, but vary a lot on their specificity and practicality.
May I encourage others to add more to the list (i.e. brainstorm). We can also start to flesh them out, by giving each their own topic.
The overarching plan is to kick off further interaction with them at the bike-breakfast. I’m in two minds whether we should invite BB participants to:
add more suggestions to the list or
add details to those already on the list or
vote on those that we already have
Personally I think that we can only realistically pull off one of these well on the day (Keep It Simple Stupid and all that). And which we go for depends on how much pre-work we get done now.
My thought is that there is most value in getting more suggestions to the list at the bike breakfast i.e. use the ones we have as a starter and prompt for additional suggestions.
What gets chosen and pressed to the DCC will need to be based on the: cost / ease / likelihood of advancement / quick fix / most pressing issues weighting balance, possibly not best left to a general public vote.
Regardless, I think all the suggestions are valid and deserve exploring, even if they don’t make the ‘12 months’ cut. I’ll start making individual topics for each so we can flesh them out there.
Yes, but on the other hand we don’t have to use a vote as the only decider, and it would give us the ability to say to council “this was identified as important by bike breakfast participants” Have we got the capacity to do ranked order voting?
I propose that I print out what we have on a poster, with the idea numbered. And then have a pack of A4 or A5 sheets that people can vote (by listing numbers) or comment on.
It would be ideal if we had someone assigned to this at all times. I am happy to do this but then maybe someone else can get signups to our forum onto the ipad?
A safer Portsmouth Drive / Portobello Road crossing. Safe enough so that school children can use the route.
Increased clarity for cycles at Barnes Dance intersections (signage, signals, education). Albany street crossing sets a precedent?
Kaikorai Valley Rd road markings moved to the middle of the road (to get bikes away from car doors)
Contra-flow cycling well indicated and signposted on George St, including intersections.
Ensure bicycles trigger sensors at intersections. Known problems - North Rd shops, George St, Queens Drive at the Moana Pool, etc. Please add to this list
Implementation of several simple uphill shared paths, i.e. Stuart St (both sides of the hill), Pitt St / Drivers Rd, Rattray St, Highgate, Eglington Rd, Opoho Rd, Signal Hill Rd, Silverton St, Highcliff Rd, Easther Cres / Middleton Rd. Warrender St.
Completion of green paint and signage on existing cycleways (i.e. George Street Nth). Make them continuous routes - helpful not just for visibility/safety but also wayfinding)
Speed reductions, speed bumps and other calming measures at key lower traffic streets - especially along the town belt.
Safer Andersons Bay Road rail underpass / southern motor junction (potentially green paint, shared path on kerb, cyclists merging signs etc).
Improve the timings for bike traffic lights on the One way system.
A quiet street trial of Leith St.
Clarify and improve maintenance / cleaning schedule of existing cycling infrastructure (including broken glass management)
Anti-glass campaign — Both the city and uni should be embarrassed about the glass problem, and both have the power to do something about it.
A Driver Education program to alert drivers to be aware of and safe around cyclists and provide adequate passing buffer.
Policy: Mandate businesses with greater than 20 parking stalls for customers must provide a secure approved bike rack near the entrance of the store proportional to the number of carparks (The Warehouse and supermarkets)
Policy: New buildings over certain size required to have a certain number of indoor bike parking (and shower stalls?) for commuters and building occupants.
Add propercycleways within 200m of all schools. Implement a city-wide cycle to school campaign.
Reconfigure barriers on paths to make them more cycling-friendly (especially for disability cycles and trailers). Especially the Port to Port cycleway.
A $100 ramp onto the footpath at Warrender st would make all the difference.
Add drop crossings at Pine Hill red just above SH1 Intersection
Bottom of Lovelock Ave: Start the shared path at the bottom corner (not the first driveway)
Driver’s road would require removing ~7 free car parks to make the road safer for many people per day: Priority should be for people’s safety.
Lookout Point to Roslyn
Corner of North road and Bank street needs more green paint. narrow merge beside Filidelfio’s is a pinch point.
North Road north of the Botanic Gardens is the most dangerous part of my commute
I consider using George st instead of the SH1 due to the poor light phasing
Remove grit used on icy days quicker: grit ends up where the cyclists ride, making it dangerous.
Shared path from Jetty St Overbridge to station needs sweeping for glass.
Give every student flat on the bike path a broom!
Stop allowing liquor stores selling alcohol in glass bottles.
Additional issues suggested
Undercover bike stands
Under the pedestrian bridge at Ravensbourne there are 2 posts when there should be only one, and therefore narrow gaps. This has apparently caused at least one crash with head injuries.
Leith Valley rd and Waitati Valley rd should be sealed.
Rattray & City Road intersection traffic island does not allow enough room for cyclists
Add the ability to take bikes on the various Dunedin Railways trains.
Bike crossing/slow down at Wharf st underbridge
Bike racks and Bike lockups.
Road “diet” for Victoria Road. (Narrow the lanes)
Pedestrian/Bike Crossing over SH1 to go to Pine Hill
Policy: mandate businessess with greater than 20 parking stalls for customers must provide a secure approved bike rack near the entrance of the store proportional to the number of carparks (im looking at you The Warehouse and supermarkets)
