Auckland City to celebrate final link in north-western cycleway

Auckland City Council will be celebrating the completion of the north-western cycleway with an official opening at noon on Thursday 19 February.

Auckland City’s Mayor, Hon John Banks, will officially open the cycleway at the UNITEC campus, near the Great North Road cycle overbridge.

The 9km mainly off-road cycleway improves safety and access for cyclists along the western transport corridor, including UNITEC, Point Chevalier Shopping Centre, Pasadena Intermediate School, Newton Central School, Western Springs College, Auckland Zoo, Museum of Transport and Technology, Western Springs Park and Western Springs Stadium.

The opening event has been timed to recognise National Bike Week which runs from 16 to 22 February.

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>