Manurewa Active Modes Project
Help shape better ways to walk and ride in Rewa! 🚶🚲🛴
Tēnā koutou, tālofa lava, mālō e lelei, kia orana, fakaalofa lahi atu, bula vinaka, nǐ hǎo, namaste, kumusta, néih hóu, and warm greetings.
We’re working to make it safer and even easier to walk, ride your bike, and scoot around Rewa.
Let us know what gets in the way and what can be better, for a healthier and more sustainable future by the end of June 2025.
About the project
The Manurewa Active Modes Project aims to identify challenges, as well as local solutions to encourage more walking and cycling in the community.
Getting around on foot or bike is one of the easiest ways to improve your health and wellbeing, and it can save you money too!
There are several public transport stations, a significant number of schools and a high proportion of tamariki and kaumātua in Manurewa, providing opportunities for local journeys by walking and cycling.
Where are we looking to make improvements
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Improved walking and cycling in Manurewa means
- We feel safer and more connected with our community when we walk, cycle, and scoot.
- We choose to walk, cycle, and scoot more often because it is more enjoyable.
- We find it easier to move around our neighbourhood on foot and by bike.
Tell us your ideas and suggestions
Where in Rewa is it currently difficult to walk, bike or scoot for local journeys to the shops, to public transport stations, or to school?
What will make it easier for you and your whānau to walk, scoot or cycle in Rewa?
How to give feedback:
- Use the comment box below.
- Email the team directly at atengagement@at.govt.nz.
Help shape better ways to walk and ride in Rewa! 🚶🚲🛴
More lighting, safer streets (lots of cracked pavements, cars parking over walkways, roaming dogs).
Please remove the dangerous speed bump on Wattle Farm road near Ranger place. Since it has been installed I’ve nearly been run over 3 times by drivers slowing for the speed bump who haven’t seen me. This was never a problem in the previous 16 years of living here
Upgrade to Mahia train station to allow students safe, dry access to public transport.
Cycling bridge to allow safe family access from Waiata shores to Wattle Downs. Allowing families to cycle, run and walk along our beautiful shores.
Need secure bike storage at Manurewa Train Station. My last bike had its lock cut right under the cameras and I received no response from AT for the footage.
Leave things alone council has no money. Too many dogs Roaming. not safe to ride a bike any more. too many units built with no on-site parking. cars all parking on the Road. Not safe These days. And no too the bridge from waiata shores to wattledowns. We like it our it is.
Look into having SAFE HOUSES for our children
I found we had them forty odd years ago. A. great idea my family used them.
Foliage needing to be cut back on Wattle Downs coastal path. Makes it hard to bike past.
Shared foot and bike bridge from Wattle Downs to Waiata Shores to connect to Southern Bike path. Will also give bike and foot access to cafe and play grounds.
Street lighting obstructed by trees means darker footpath and the footpath are all risen from the trees and dangerous.
Loose dogs in Manurewa & the amount of dirt bikers in Mountfort Park. Not safe to walk the kids to school with myself, and definitely wouldn’t allow them to walk themselves as it’s not even safe for adults let alone kids.
A bridge from Wattle Downs to Waiata Shores!
A cycle path and covered area at Te Mahia train station
Hi, what gets in the way is that to get to the southern path from wattle downs we need to ride all the way along mahia road and then past a few busy intersections. It would be faster and so much safer to ride over a bridge straight to waiata shores. If there was a bridge there I'd ride it. I do parkrun on Saturday mornings so I could ride there. I go to the cafes there and the waiata shores playground and I'd cycle there. At the moment I drive to these places because there's no bridge across.
track through from Wattle Downs Walk way to Waiata Shores.
Better connections to southern path from Wattle Downs
Fixing the pavement/upgrade it to a wider shared path particularly between Gt South Road / Mahia Jct and Holmes Road turning.
Bridge between Waiata Shores and Wattle Downs.
Major concern is the roaming dogs which are a danger to anyone cycling and walking. This needs to be a top priority.
A shared foot and cycle bridge across the Papakura Stream to connect Wattle Downs and Waiata Shores so access to services such as Woolworths, cafes, dentist and medical care.
A bridge across the Papakura stream to connect the wattle Downs coastal walk to the Southern path
Great South Road, heading south from #291 (the NPD) to #324. This section of shared path has many car yards and petrol stations. Riding down here at speed is risky because of all the vehicles coming in and out drive ways and petrol stations often fail to give way, or don't understand that they need to give way to vehicles using the cycle path. They crossing points should be clearly marked to show who has right of way.
Outside the Browns Road Superette, near the corner of Dalgetty Drive: there is a rubbish bin in the middle of the bike path. Going around the bin puts riders at risk of hitting people as they walk out of the superette. There are also often cars parked nextdoor outside #116 blocking the cycle lane.
The cycle lanes on Browns Road, outside Homai Primary and Manurewa High are blocked with parked cars before and after school. Staff and students are stuck walking their vehicles because there's no room on the road and no room on the footpath.
