I find it hard to believe what we are seeing when it comes to cycleways. Cycleways are by and large a waste of time - and I cycle, by the way. Well, not entirely. The tourist trail is good news. Specific places to explore, individual places where cycles can roam free, are no bad idea.
But cycleways have been ideologically captured by clip-boarders who can't see the wood for the trees. It's all theory, no reality. I have, of course, been saying this for years.
However, there are now - can you believe it - protests against cycleways. From Auckland to Wellington to Christchurch, people are literally on the march against dumb councils who don't get it. Pieces of road and footpath sliced off and up - all in the vain attempt to convince us that cars are bad and bikes are good.
Read more: Comment - The extraordinary incompetence of Auckland Transport
Bikes are good, but just not when they prevent cars moving or buses moving or people doing business.