Creating a network of safe cycleways from Mount Maunganui to Arataki has been identified as the top priority for construction by the Tauranga City Council.
The council proposes to spend $12 million over the next three years to get more people onto bikes and reduce the city's growing traffic congestion.
Making Tauranga safer and easier for people on bikes has been outlined in the Tauranga Cycle Plan, unveiled today at the council's transport committee meeting.
The plan will guide the proposed $24 million which the council has earmarked to spend over the next 10 years to encourage more people to cycle to work and school.
Cycleways connecting the Mount, Omanu and Arataki have been prioritised for investigation, design and construction over the next three years, with construction spilling over into the following three years starting 2021.