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

[Peter Whittle]

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

-----Original Message-----
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
To: bikeqld at bikeqld.org.au
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?

Yep. BCC has previously been planning to do it progressively in 100m 
sections but in more recent news they are going to do the whole 400m in 
one go to try to get the project finished by the end of financial year.

> Didn't they learn anything from the Sewerage debacle?

Apparently not. The word from BCC at the CBD BUG meeting yesterday was 
that they were considering requiring cyclists to dismount and walk through 
the affected section of path. IIRC the path (platform) width is 2.2m. This 
is expected to be in place for three or four months.

The path through the Hale Street Link works is also about to reduced in 
width for an expected two or three months. The path width will be 2.2m, 
down to 1.9m in some parts. The affected length of path will vary between 
20m and 80m.

Apparently the HSL people are also getting antsy about behaviour of path 
users on their section. They've allegedly had workers involved in 
collisions, and cyclists ignoring traffic controllers (continuing when 
told to stop). The police have been called in (I've seen them around there 
a few times recently) and declared it a "project" of theirs, which 
apparently has some bureaucratic consequences requiring "results" of some 
sort. Thus far the police have only been issuing warnings but of course 
can fine/arrest/etc people if they feel the need.

Ian

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