[bikeqld] Active Transport News from Brisbane City Council Thursday 18 June, 5:45

[kim]

Thanks Mich, Talking of counts, I did notice on the weekend that there 
were traffic count contractors on Sylvan road; I wondered if they were 
just doing counts relating to the proposed tunnel (thought the Toowong 
connection was off the drawing board now though) or whether it was 
related to the bikelane there. As I recall there was a lot of spruiking 
by both Council and MR about how the Western Freeway overpass was going 
to generate so much more cycle traffic from the north western suburbs. 
We did spend nearly half the amount it cost to build the Schonell bridge 
or the Goodwill bridge just to get across the western freeway to the 
botanic gardens and so I would hope that we do an audit of the numbers 
using this bridge to see if it was a good spend or not. There seemed to 
be very little fanfare about the whole thing when it was finished. I 
personally have not seen a lot of people using it and have had a whinge 
about some of the bodgy works done there.

The second talk listed about reducing ped/bike conflict/interaction 
would be interesting to see how Council fairs in that discussion and 
they are supposedly going to show some local CBD examples (I guess its 
always a bit too much effort to look at things too far from the city 
centre :(  ) and I am wondering if they might just be the 'good 
examples' or whether the myriad of 'bad examples' are going to be 
highlighted? I am sure that many of us can point to many bad examples. I 
certainly can. It does not list the presenter but I know Robyn Davies, 
the MR cycle lady did produce a paper on that very topic some years 
back. I don't think Robyn is in that same role at present though and I 
while I think MR does tend to make a better effort than Council in these 
matters, I don't think they are faultless by any means, especially 
looking at some of their efforts around recent works.

k



mich rolling wrote:
> http://www.pedbiketrans.asn.au/eventsframe.html#current
> Aushiker over on Australian Cycling Forums 
> http://www.bicycles.net.au/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=16460
> has alerted us to the Thursday seminar by Brisbane Active Transport under
>  the auspices of PedBikeTrans.
> Depending on how much of the BCC and QT counts on bike use are released 
> (Bicycle Queensland, have you published anything?) this could be very 
> interesting.
>
>
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