Today’s heat and wind were perfect for cycling…if you had the sun and wind behind you.
Our director, Louise Tu’u, went on her multi-modal way from her base in Ōtāhuhu to Onehunga. Cycling to the Ōtāhuhu station, she caught a train to Penrose then sought to ride to Onehunga.
Unfortunately, there is no clear marking how to do that from a cycling perspective so Louise relied on her driving memory, which was also not a great idea.
Upon her return, she decided to ride down Onehunga Mall and along the foreshore on the Waikaraka Cycleway. This route is not very signposted and very dangerous to cross Onehunga Mall. Once she made it to the cycleway, here is what she encountered.
What is incredible is the lack of signage on this entire cycleway. The high tide of the Onehunga foreshore is impressive and calm during the day but Louise was adamant to not ride this route in the dark. There’s no lighting and no barriers to the foreshore. Riding this cycleway made Louise very grateful to not be near any industrial trucks, etc.
She then made it to a bridge she has passed thousands of times as a train commuter, which oddly, has no name, at least on Google.
This path then connects with Hugo Johnston Drive in Penrose, where you take this sneaky shortcut towards Ōtāhuhu across the train lines at the old Southdown station/stop.
Louise then rode parallel to the train line on Industry Road (yep, that’s the real name) and eastwards towards Southdown Lane and Great South Road.
Check it out yourself.
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