[bikeqld] Green BAZ ??? Where ...?

[Michael Yeates]

Exactly ...

Other questions include whether these are "bike lanes" from a legal 
point of view ... with some further points beyond that ...

MY...............

At 06:36 PM 1/11/2009, Chris Barham wrote:

>So it's not a BAZ - maybe it's a "copenhagen style bike contraflow 
>facility"?   See here on bq page for a pic and explanation:
><http://www.bq.org.au/>http://www.bq.org.au/
>Here's some pics of the green bike lane, but as you say, that's not a BAZ...
><http://picasaweb.google.com.au/bloved64/KurilpaBridgeOpening>http://picasaweb.google.com.au/bloved64/KurilpaBridgeOpening
>Chris
>
>On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Michael Yeates 
><<mailto:michael at yeatesit.biz>michael at yeatesit.biz> wrote:
>Some will be aware of a BQ - UQ survey on cycling and health ... it 
>is worth supporting if the info is made widely available.
>
><http://pacer.hms.uq.edu.au/survey/index.php?sid=17615&lang=en>http://pacer.hms.uq.edu.au/survey/index.php?sid=17615&lang=en
>
>However I was intrigued (to say the least) when I came across the 
>following very confusing description in amongst some question options ...
>Using designated on-road bike lanes, such as the bicycle awareness 
>lanes painted green
>On the road (no bicycle lanes)
>Other
>Surely the BFZ > BAZ hasn't had yet another change ... the BAZ was 
>NEVER a "lane" and NEVER a "designated lane" ... indeed EXACTLY the 
>opposite ...!
>
>So what exactly is "painted green" ... has the BIKE symbol changed 
>from yellow to green ?
>
>Where is there an example of this facility?
>
>Or, given it seems reasonable to expect a cycling advocacy 
>organisation to be precise and accurate, is this another case of 
>increasing community acceptance (or tolerance) of organisations 
>failing to ensure quality ... or put another way,"due diligence" or 
>QA ie "quality assurance" ?
>
>It is a simple question of being correct and therefore reliably 
>informative ... or not and therefore furthering confusion and/or 
>misunderstanding.
>
>MY.................................
>
>
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