Official opening of the Nelson Street bike path

Lights, colour, action! Thursday December 3rd marks the official opening of the Nelson Street bike path. Bike Auckland (aka Cycle Action) invites all people on two wheels (or three, or one) to come up and be the first to see the amazing design and infrastructure collaboration lit up in all its night-time glory.

Recommended arrival time is from around 7.30pm so that you are ready to hit the Upper Queen / Canada St entrance at 8.00pm, which will leave enough time to meet the sudden full-scale panorama of harbour and city in time for the sun setting at 8.24pm, and the first lighting of the bridge lights.

Afterward the night is your own: for those going to Bike Rave, it’s a great excuse for a practice ride along the waterfront, or you could follow the route down Victoria Street to finish at Rockefeller for champagne & oysters. Alternatively, ride a loop back via Pitt Street to join K’ Rd’s First Thursdays event; there will be films showing the length of K’Rd and her surrounding streets.

Bike Action will be posting other ideas on the Facebook event page over the next week or so.

For more information on the Nelson Street cycleway, see here. For the ArchitectureNow article on the cycleway, see here.