{"id":4859,"date":"2016-07-14T12:36:57","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T04:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/07\/14\/this-may-be-the-worlds-most-beautiful-bike-path\/"},"modified":"2016-07-14T12:36:57","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T04:36:57","slug":"this-may-be-the-worlds-most-beautiful-bike-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/07\/14\/this-may-be-the-worlds-most-beautiful-bike-path\/","title":{"rendered":"This may be the world&#039;s most beautiful bike path"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Https%3a%2f%2fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2fuploads%2fcard%2fimage%2f144435%2fab5bb592889b4b0dbe7eb45c351121d6\" src=\"http:\/\/i.amz.mshcdn.com\/SIWsr1Tb8QsjTbQUhq1IPnuMK38=\/575x323\/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F144435%2Fab5bb592889b4b0dbe7eb45c351121d6.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=This+may+be+the+world%27s+most+beautiful+bike+path&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F07%2F14%2Fauckland-nelson-st-cycleway%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F07%2F14%2Fauckland-nelson-st-cycleway%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>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&#8217;d be able to take a far more scenic route.<\/p>\n<p>Designed by Monk Mackenzie Architects, the Nelson St Cycleway project, dubbed the &#8220;LightPathAKL,&#8221; turned 600 metres of unused highway offramp into a bright pink streak through the city.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/07\/10\/prisma-app-photo-art\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">10 amazing Prisma app images that started as simple selfies<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;The former asphalt highway was given a highly vivid and provocative pink resin and aggregate surfacing,&#8221; architect         Dean Mackenzie said in an emailed statement.<span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">\u00a0&#8220;This transformed the space from a disused highway into a highly contemporary urban space used by cyclists and pedestrians.&#8221;<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/07\/14\/auckland-nelson-st-cycleway\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/new-zealand\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">New Zealand<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/bike-paths\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Bike Paths<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/bikes\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Bikes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/world\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">World<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/australia\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Australia<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/aA9yAR-Qu_w\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;d be able to take a far more scenic route. Designed by Monk Mackenzie Architects, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/07\/14\/this-may-be-the-worlds-most-beautiful-bike-path\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[728,3764,3765,1854,1112],"class_list":["post-4859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-australia","tag-bike-paths","tag-bikes","tag-new-zealand","tag-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}