[bikeqld] Coro Drive bikepath update?

[Norm Morwood]

I think the "wasteful" bit in your email Dan is somehow related to Jobs
jobs jobs.

At Woombye we still have the rail pedestrian level crossing ushers I
referred to several weeks ago. Must be 6 in total now. They camp there
all day and have a chat to people passing by if the ppb look willing to
have a chat and I suppose if they do something wrong (sometimes). This
morning I rode straight past them over the tracks despite the fact that
previously they told me I would have to dismount to cross. I stopped for
a chat on the way back and he told me a maximum of 10 people use the
crossing each day. 

I could not ride back because there were about 15 other ?QR employees
there also most blocking the way so I walked across. They seem to be
putting in ?automatic gates across a new level crossing nearby. Someone
said if the rail lights are green the gates will be shut and peds and
cyclists would be stopped. One of the ushers stood in the middle of the
track and said he would stop the train for me if it came when I was on
the track. I think he was making a joke.


Regards, Norm.
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-----Original Message-----
From: bikeqld-bounces at bikeqld.org.au
[mailto:bikeqld-bounces at bikeqld.org.au] On Behalf Of Dan Callaghan
Sent: Tuesday, 26 May 2009 6:55 PM
To: BikeQld list
Subject: Re: [bikeqld] Coro Drive bikepath update?


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>

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