[bikeqld] Where is the Bowen Hills Landbridge to be?

[mich rolling]

Thanks Michael
Nothing wrong with helping developers. It IS wrong to help developers at 
the expense of the general populace.

An initial perusal of the development amendment links shows in Map 6:

A bikeway already exists along the same alignment as the ICB tunnel from
 O'Connell Tce to and crossing Bowen HIlls Road adjacent to the railway
 line. As this bike route cannot be in the tunnel (?) it must be above
 ground. It does not exist. The error was apparent in the initial plans
 and BCC planning was alerted to that error. That the error persists shows
 how little care actually goes into the planning document. 

Similarly the ICB shoulder link from Abbotsford Road to Campbell St has
 been gone for three years. You would think that a planner would have 
noticed?

The new bikeway linking Campbell St/O'Connell Tce/Bowen Hills Road and the
 CBD bikeway enters O'Connell Tce through a right angle right turn, turns
 into Lutwyche Road on a left right angle into a pedestrian crossing, 
passes between the RBH and Bowen Park on what is now the footpath (forcing
 cyclists to cross and paralell pedestrians wanting to enter the park)
 until another right hand turn to cross Bowen Hills Road at the existing 
lights (crossing Bowen Hills Road on light set 1, Herston Road on light
 set 2 and using the pedestrian crossing on the Gilchrist Av sliproad).

So to move a nett 365m from the intersection of Campbell St/O'Connell Tce
 to the ICB bikeway west of Bowen Hills Road a cyclist has to negotiate
 four road crossings, three sets of lights and three right angle turns.
 

A direct crossing of O'Connell Tce onto an SUP along the alignment of the
 non-existent 'existing' bike path crossig UNDER Bowen Bridge Road using 
the existing tunnel would cut this to no right angle turns and one road
 crossing. Too difficult.

The rest of the document goes into la la land talking about community use
 of the area under and above spaghetti junction where the ICB meets Clem7.
 Imagine the liability issues of building over the junction? BrisConn 
would need trucks to carry the insurance bond to the bank.




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