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07-14-2016, 08:12 AM
This may be the world's most beautiful bike path
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Pity the poor urban dwellers who have to cycle home on a sullen grey concrete bike path. If you lived in Auckland, New Zealand, you'd be able to take a far more scenic route.
Designed by Monk Mackenzie Architects, the Nelson St Cycleway project, dubbed the "LightPathAKL," turned 600 metres of unused highway offramp into a bright pink streak through the city.
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"The former asphalt highway was given a highly vivid and provocative pink resin and aggregate surfacing," architect Dean Mackenzie said in an emailed statement.*"This transformed the space from a disused highway into a highly contemporary urban space used by cyclists and pedestrians." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/07/14/auckland-nelson-st-cycleway/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Pity the poor urban dwellers who have to cycle home on a sullen grey concrete bike path. If you lived in Auckland, New Zealand, you'd be able to take a far more scenic route.
Designed by Monk Mackenzie Architects, the Nelson St Cycleway project, dubbed the "LightPathAKL," turned 600 metres of unused highway offramp into a bright pink streak through the city.
SEE ALSO: 10 amazing Prisma app images that started as simple selfies (http://mashable.com/2016/07/10/prisma-app-photo-art/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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