The Far North District Council will develop a temporary cycle trail along roadsides between Ōpua and Taumarere as an interim measure, while plans to develop a permanent cycle trail along the railway corridor are progressed as originally planned.
The Council opened the Ōpua-Taumarere section of the Twin Coast Cycle Trail along the rail corridor in 2014 on the understanding that the corridor would return to rail when the Bay of Islands Vintage Railway was extended from Taumarere to Opua.