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It's all good except I suggest it suits inner suburban yuppies who work in the CBD, not so much battlers from the outer suburbs. The barriers and laneways are good now I recall a cyclist who hit a pedestrian on Canberra's Kings Avenue bridge. The choice was going over the railing into the water or sprawling on to the road to be run over by a car. The latter was avoided only by good luck.
When the cycle commute is really long, say an hour each way, you have to wonder whether the energy would be better spent digging spuds in the garden.
It isn't just inner suburban yuppies who work in the CBD - there are plenty of other people in the city.
Admittedly most of them probably don't come from the north shore, but anything which extends the off-road cycle system is good from my point of view - local councils tend to copy stuff that they seeing working elsewhere.