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

[kim]

The thing that annoyed me about the QPS getting involved down there, was 
that they had two police with two separate cars allocated to the job. 
What a waste of resources; those guys are within easy walking distance 
from PHQ at Roma St, they don't need two fully resourced police vehicles 
tied up on that job. They don't need all the armoury and training, why 
not send down a couple of junior constables on foot or those bicycle 
officers?
I had spoken to the Police just a week before about the lack of 
compliance with the 40kph speed limit on the road through the work site. 
I pointed out that 99% of motorists still travelled through at 60 or 
more. I suspected that blind eyes were being turned in order to keep 
things moving for political reasons. The QPS said that they could not do 
any enforcement there for a number of reasons and sure enough as the two 
officers just leaned on a fence down there the traffic behind them 
whizzed by at 60 in the 40 zone and they did nothing.

Ian, did you do anything further with your tale of the Police riding 
across the pedestrian crossing to confirm just what their stance is on 
cyclists and crossings? Perhaps cyclists will not be booked if they ride 
on the edge?? I think it would have been a very nice post bike week 
article for the local paper to raise the issue and perhaps give some 
strength to the argument for a ride-over facility at Moggill Rd on the 
bikeway.

kim



 Ian Lister wrote:
> 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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