This project filled a big hole in New Zealand at the time. Austroads guidance was not always appropriate for New Zealand, and we have different road signs and markings. Practitioners needed local advice on how to design and implement cycle facilities. Transit (now NZTA) put up its hand in the national interest and agreed to fund the project.
Andrew Macbeth (then working for MWH New Zealand Ltd, but later a ViaStrada director) won the contract to develop this design guide. Axel Wilke (also a director with ViaStrada, but employed by the Christchurch City Council then) was a peer reviewer for the project. The guide was available on the NZTA website until March 2016, and is still hosted on the ViaStrada website. Until the Cycling network guidance was published in mid-2016, the Supplement information was still relevant, and is still a useful background resource (while recognising that Austroads have subsequently updated their guides too).
Not many traffic engineers get to write the bible in their areas of expertise - we appreciated this opportunity to help design good facilities across the country!
