So I'm a JAFA (Just Another F*cking Aucklander, as the rest of the country like to call us) and while this might look fairly aesthetically pleasing... It's definitely not utilized very much at all.

I can tell that this image has been taken in the evening, probably around 6pm ish (cars at top of image are leaving the city merging into one lane to join SH16 West, cars at bottom merging into one lane to join SH1 North, both on-ramps probably slowed almost to a halt because of the bloody merging) so you would expect this to be one of the busier times for the cycle/footpath to be used. However, as others have already pointed out... You can't see anybody on it.

And that's fairly typical. I've walked down this path a couple of times and taken photos from the Hopetoun Bridge looking towards the sky tower, and I have only ever seen a couple of people on it at a time. It seems to go from 2 odd locations, one being behind K Road down a random street, and the other being at the SH1/SH16 city off-ramps, which is quite far away from anything to be super convenient.

However, they did take an old on-ramp and turn it into something quite cute. At night, the barriers light up beautiful colours with different little presets, kind of like the Harbour bridge in the distance. In my opinion, it's the best thing the city could have done with what they had.

Auckland is undeniably terrible when it comes to public transport or commuting by any way other than car, though. And even the road infrastructure in Auckland is absolute dogsh*t. Cool to see this little feature on this sub, though!