[bikeqld] Walking shoes for Coro drive... again?

Wed Apr 8 18:40:43 CDT 2009

My understanding of it is they are there for the safety of the workers on 
the site.  Blatant disregard shown by a number of cyclists riding through 
the area has resulted in the injury of several workers.  I believe there 
have already been at least five (avoidable) incidents.

The stretch of path we are talking about is in total no more than 400 
metres... yet some users [cyclists] just cannot allow themselves to 
sacrifice 30 seconds of their time to slow down.... Does this sound 
familiar to the issues put forward by cyclists against 'cagers' on the 
roads?

B'gards.
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Hi Anthony, I am not certain of just what the Police were there to do. 
They were just leaning on the fence looking at the bikeway and talking to 
each other when I saw them. PeteW mentioned in an earlier post that they 
had nabbed a cyclist for using a mobile while riding. Perhaps it was just 
a 'hassle cyclists' initiative during bike week. If they are engaged by 
BCC then BCC may be able to say why they have got them there, they do that 
on many road jobs if it is deemed necessary. Perhaps one or some of the 
traffic controllers have been hassled in some way, there was an article in 
the paper recently about how the traffic controllers union is not happy 
with some safety and employment issues. I think tho, that the traffic 
controllers were partly to blame for some of the heated conflict during 
the sewer pipe epic works there last time with their lack of understanding 
of the rules and their own authority. I am not sure of how well the HSL 
related controllers have been doing their job but I have not had any grief 
with them. I have not been down that way for a few days but I am pretty 
sure that there is no requirement to dismount yet and I don't think the 
bypass section will have been opened yet as it seemed to have a lot of 
building to be done when I last saw it last.

kim

Anthony Lee wrote: 
Hi Kim,

So are they making cyclists walk then? I have been on standby and so I 
have been driving the standby car and
so haven't even rode on the Coro Drive pretend bikeway. How bad is it?

I have idiots at work who reckon bicycle should have registration (again). 
I will pay for my registration the
day that they give us descent cycling facilities!

Anthony Lee
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From: kim <kim at teegee.com.au>
To: BikeQld <bikeqld at bikeqld.org.au>
Sent: Wednesday, 8 April, 2009 9:14:44 PM
Subject: Re: [bikeqld] Walking shoes for Coro drive... again?

I was talking today to the Central Traffic Branch of the QPS about the 
lack of compliance with the 40kph zone through the HSL work site on Coro 
Drv and I mentioned that I had seen two police officers and two police 
cars parked on the footpath there and that they were paying attention to 
the cyclists on the bikeway totally oblivious to the speeding car traffic 
behind them. He said he thought the BCC was paying for those two officers  
to police the bikeway.

If that was/is the case, I think that is a bit of an overkill in light of 
the car traffic problems there. Probably comes out of that massive cycle 
budget too.

Peter Whittle wrote: 
The traffic controllers are the problem, standing there waving and 
frowning. The path there is no narrower than elsewhere, and people manage 
it just fine. Christ, why haven't we got traffic control on the footpaths 
of George St? Pissants. Oh well, I'll just use Highgate Hill from now on. 

Speaking of the 'blitz', I pulled over this morning to take a phone call. 
As I did that, a rider went past, no hands, chatting away on his phone and 
I thought, I could be quick like him! I finished my call and went around 
the corner, and there he was, with cops writing out a ticket. My lucky 
day, but not his :D

Pete

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On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Anthony Lee wrote:

Did anyone noticed that they are building a raised platform on Coro 
Drive?

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