I have been to the Mount a few times in the past month and going on Maunganui Rd to Hewletts Rd, where the lovely cycleway is, I have not seen one bike rider on the cycleway.  
I saw on Saturday, July 14, three girls on e-scooters but they were on the footpath. My only hope that the cycleway being built on Cameron Rd will get more use. I rarely see a bike rider on the parts of cycleway that are complete.
I, like many others, really feel for the business owners not only during construction of bus lanes and cycleways but in the future when most of the parking outside shops will have gone.
Wendy Galloway, Omokoroa.