[bikeqld] Gympie Road

[Yani]

I cycled to town tonight (5:30PM) on the west side path on Gympie Road.

 

I saw/passed 2 cyclists on the road and about 50 on the footpath.

 

It's f#####d+++!!! 

 

1.    There are head slamming branches

2.    Grrrrr Adshells. man they are stuffed plus. Bad for peds but so much
worse for cyclists coming the other way. Man I can't believe that crap is
allowed!

3.    Stupid signs! Poles everywhere. What does it take to get QT off the
footpath!

 

We need to find a way to get through to dick head and co or if it's allowed
to continue there are going to be serious and regular accidents. And
naturally it will be the cyclists fault.

 

And we need some TV education for the ped that think they own the path. 

 

If they encourage X4 more cyclists to ride to work, which isn't that many in
total numbers, we are heading to serious danger if something isn't changed. 

 

And it's not the old stuff that is the issue but what they have done in the
last 5 years. It's sad.

 

In fact old bus shelters are clearly more than fine. 

 

Real idiot stuff like a traffic light controller 5 foot long that instead of
being long side parallel to the road sits there like some work of art at
right angle to the road. Why? Where the hell are the brains!

 

http://people.aapt.net.au/~theyan/cycling/DSCN4411.jpg

 

When I went past there was nothing to detour. but even if there was no crap
sign there is still FA space because of green boxes. 

 

http://people.aapt.net.au/~theyan/cycling/DSCN4413.jpg

 

Even a temporary ramp to a shop is more important than footpath users. Even
when the shop is clearly closing down!

 

It wouldn't shit me off so much if it wasn't so damn brain dead!

 

Seriously there were 5 peds for 50 cyclists. And I was only on that part of
the path for 5-10 minutes. And every time you went in front of a car going
towards town they were looking the opposite direction. And I know they just
love to go forward without looking the other way as I've been hit before so
I'm way cautious. The other side is unusable. 

 

We need to work out a strategy to get the point across. It's nothing more
than pig ignorant brain dead bullshite.

 

Yani

 

 

 

 

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