The pedal network
Christchurch is flat and it rides, the council’s cycleway layer files 4,923 pieces of it, 734 km of lanes, separated paths, shared paths, quiet streets and trails. 17 of the strands carry names: the Major Cycle Routes, the spine network the post-quake city promised itself.
The network, drawn
Every recorded segment, the separated paths in ink, the painted lanes teal, the shared paths and quiet streets faint, and the named routes traced once more in the accent. The honest read: most of the network is a line of paint, and the protected share is the part still being built.
The named routes
The Major Cycle Routes, the programme named each spine as it built it. The kilometres are the record’s own lengths.
What the network is made of
A "cycle lane" is a painted strip beside the traffic; a "separated cycleway" has something between you and the cars. The status on each segment is the council’s books, in service, not a promise the works cone agrees today.
The suburbs it threads
The kilometres are each segment counted under the suburb whose outline it crosses, a route that clips a corner counts there once.
- Christchurch Central City0.1 km, City to Sea Pathway, Heathcote Expressway, Little River Link +6 more
- Halswell0.0 km, Little River Link, Quarryman's Trail
- Woolston0.0 km, Heathcote Expressway, Rapanui Shag Rock, Smith Street Neighbourhood Greenway +1 more
- Hornby0.0 km, Little River Link, South Express
- Sydenham0.0 km, Quarryman's Trail, Southern Lights, Ōpāwaho River
- Wigram0.0 km, Little River Link
- Somerfield0.0 km, Nor'West Arc, Quarryman's Trail, Ōpāwaho River
- Marshland0.0 km
- Addington0.0 km, Little River Link, Northern Line, Quarryman's Trail +1 more
- Mairehau0.0 km
Questions, answered briefly
The council’s cycleway layer files 4,923 segments, about 734 km of cycle lanes, separated cycleways, shared paths, quiet streets and trails across the district. The length is the asset register’s own measure of what is in service, not a promise about today’s cones.
The named spines of the network, 17 routes the post-earthquake city funded and named as a connected programme: the Nor’West Arc, the Heathcote Expressway, Rapanui–Shag Rock, the Northern Line, South Express, Uni-Cycle, the Papanui Parallel and the rest. Each route gets its own page here with its line drawn and its mix of protected and painted riding.
The honest read is on the map, most of the kilometres are a painted lane or a shared path, and the separated share is the smaller, newer, harder-won piece. The type standings count each kind by length so the split is plain.
The suburb table counts the kilometres of network whose path crosses each outline, with the named routes that thread it. Ask a point directly at /before, it names the nearest cycleway within a short walk and which named route it belongs to.
Probably, the record’s service status says what the books hold, but roadworks decide week by week. The layer is the network as the council assets it, not today’s rideability report.
The record behind this
Christchurch City Council’s open data, the Cycle service’s Cycleway layer, with the equipment layer (stands, barriers, repair stations) counted beside it. The status on a segment is the asset’s standing on the books; the cones decide what a street actually rides like this week. The buses' side of the transport story is /buses; the walking tracks are /tracks.
This page as markdown: /cycleways.md · the network as data: /cycleways.json · /cycleways.geojson · by suburb: /suburb-cycleways.json.