Tuesday, 13 April 2021, 4:28 pm
Auckland Transport (AT) and Panuku Development Auckland
are working together to deliver Project WAVE - a trial
cycleway through the Viaduct area of downtown Auckland,
connecting the Nelson Street and Quay Street
cycleways.
Additional loading zones, pedestrian
crossing points, and a one-way system also form part of the
trial, which encompasses Market Place, part of Customs
Street West, and Lower Hobson Street.
The short
construction period is expected to begin this week. The
cycleway will open in stages and is expected to be fully
open by mid-May 2021. In mid-2021, AT will decide its
long-term future.
Project WAVE is one of more than
From Am Cup crews to gangsters: Criminal element eyes up Auckland s Viaduct after dark
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Tom Dillane is a reporter at the New Zealand Heraldtom.dillane@nzme.co.nz@tomdillane1
This week America s Cup formalities began and the crowds are flooding back to the glitzy Viaduct strip of bars and restaurants. The Covid-hit businesses are desperate for customers, but some are concerned at the area becoming a gangsters paradise at night, with a sinister underbelly developing after dark. Tom Dillane reports.
Reclining in his sunny Viaduct restaurant, Metin Yildiz is fully aware of both the appeal - and the curse - of Auckland s most visible nightspot.