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

Wed Apr 8 19:07:07 CDT 2009

Hi Ken and Kim,

Sorry I hope I haven't confuse you guys. I have no problem slowing down through the HSL 
construction section. I was referring to the section further down towards the Oxley floating
restaurant. Are they making people walk now that BCC is widening that bit?

Regards,
Anthnoy
 Anthony Lee
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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? 

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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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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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From: bikeqld-bounces at bikeqld.org.au[mailto:bikeqld-bounces at bikeqld.org.au] On Behalf Of Ian Lister
Sent: Thursday, 26 March 2009 11:05 AM
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Subject: Re: [bikeqld] Walking shoes for Coro drive... again?

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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