Waka Kotahi has set aside $618 million to spend on cycleways over the next three years, but the budget has blown out already to $670 million, which is an overspend of 10 percent. Auckland Transport is going to spend $144 million on 18km of cycleways - $8 million per kilometre. Christchurch Council is going to spend more than $300 million on 13 cycleways - $3 million per kilometre. Frankly, the people at Waka Kotahi need to stop overengineering their cycleways. Most of our roads have a line separating cars from cars and it works.

Source: New Zealand Herald June 14, 2022 13:39 UTC