[bikeqld] Coro Drive bikepath update?

[Dan Callaghan]

Christopher Biggs wrote:
> I have a suspicion they made the temporary bike-only section one-way
> just to punish cyclists for making a fuss about the shitty detour in the
> first place.

It really seems that way. I try and avoid the temporary path section when
I can, but Coro Dr is the direct route between work and home for me so I
end up going along there fairly often. Even with the stop-and-go one-way
regime, everyone seems to take the temporary path at a sedate speed, in a
single file, so I don't think having two-way for cyclists would be unsafe.
(I can imagine it would be a bit harrowing however if peds were going
along there too ..)

I was surprised to discover last weekend that it's not just being enforced
in peak hour either -- mid-afternoon on Saturday, I was about to ride
straight onto the temporary section when a traffic controller dude jumped
out at me from the bushes where he had been chilling out (fair enough too,
since there was almost nobody around) and yelled out for me to stop. I had
to wait for a few minutes while two cyclists and a rollerblader(?) came
along in the opposite direction, before I was allowed onto the temporary
section. The whole thing seems very wasteful ..

-- 
Dan Callaghan <djc at djc.id.au>