Campaigners for a tolled pedestrian and cycle path across Auckland Harbour Bridge have attracted a leading coastal development company to build and operate it as a joint venture.
Orewa-based Hopper Developments - with pioneering projects such as canal housing and marina schemes at Pauanui, Whitianga and Marsden Pt under its belt - has signed a heads of agreement to work with a walking and cycling charitable trust on a $16 million pathway over the bridge.
Prominent Auckland architects, Copeland Associates, are about to start work on design concepts for the Auckland Harbour Bridge Pathway. We'd like your input, please take the short survey here:
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Other news:
We're forming a Pathway Steering Group to meet monthly and oversee the delivery of the project.
We continue to meet fortnightly with NZTA regarding the Pathway.
Some four thousand cyclists and walkers today crossed the Auckland Harbour Bridge as part of the GetAcross campaign.