Bike Racks Full at Devonport Ferry

It doesn't seem that long ago, that there were no bike racks at Devonport Wharf for Devonport Ferry users. We had to fight quite hard on Council and Devonport Community Board to get some installed.

These photos are of bike (and scooter) parking at Devonport Wharf. There are now four bicycle racks. And you can see that the main ones are full. "Build them and they will come", seems to be a truism for bike racks at ferry terminals.


The most reliably used bike racks are those under weather cover - rain and UV cover.

There is a lesson here for Auckland Transport - and Auckland Council. Build bike racks at commuter ferry terminals. Build lots of them. I have been very gratified by the rapid rate at which new bike parking capacity gets filled up at Devonport. I think we are only just scratching the surface of bike-to-ferry demand in Auckland.

I've included - at the end - a couple of pictures of bike racks from my travels. The first is a railway station bike rack is at Malmo in Sweden. City population is 300,000....

And the last is of bike parking (out of the weather) at a suburban station in Sapporo Japan, under the overhead railway line... Examples we can learn from I think, in Auckland.