With Dunedin’s steep hills and changeable weather in the mix, having flexibility with your bike is a real bonus - you can decide to ride one way and not the other, or, if the weather turns to custard part-way through the day, take your bike on the bus home.

The Regional Council is working together with the Dunedin City Council and the NZ Transport Agency on a strategy to connect and coordinate transportation methods city-wide. The bus service is a key part of this – as are the separated cycleways and improved cycle connections around the harbour and inner city.

The secretary of cycling advocacy group Spokes Dunedin, Tim Vick, said group is pleased to see that cycling is being embraced by local authorities, both through the provision of new safe cycling infrastructure in our city and in the form of facilities like the bus bike racks.

“It is these types of initiatives that help enable more people to feel sufficiently safe to use their bikes, either as a form of transport or just for the fun of going for a bike ride. The number of people riding bikes appears to be continually growing and the bus bike racks will only further help this to continue," Tim said.

Good to know

• Bike racks can carry two bikes at a time
• They’re designed for wheels larger than 16” in diameter
• Always load and unload your bike from the kerbside
• Let the driver know right away if you have problems with the bike racks
• Children’s bikes may be allowed on the bus at the driver’s discretion and must be securely held by the passenger.
  
  

Example of someone using a bus bike rack
Otago Polytechnic student Sabina Bamania loads her bike onto a Dunedin bus

A bike rack will be on the front of every bus by 18 September

Otago Polytechnic student Sabina Bamania loads her bike otno a Dunedin bus.