[bikeqld] Moggill Rd crossing at Indooroopilly

[kim]

I noticed last week that MR has installed bicycle crossing lights now on 
the pedestrian crosswalk of Moggill Rd. It does not look like a big 
spend at all, just red and green bike lights in parallel with the 
pedestrian ones. One each side, no special bike buttons or signs so on 
the same priority as the existing pedestrian ones. I don't know if this 
is a work in progress but there is no provision for cyclists over the 
pedestrian crossing on the slip lane on either side so it is of little 
benefit as it stands as cyclists are forced to dismount and walk these 
or ride to the side of them and hop the island. Perhaps they will come 
with time. The Police I spoke with were most concerned at the time about 
cyclists 'endangering motorists' as they rode across the slip lane. The 
targeting of cyclists for riding in an otherwise safe manner over the 
crossings seemed to dispute the claim that they were after the cyclists 
bolting out in front of motorists on the slip lane. Hopefully the 
crossings get made bike friendly too. Last new year was in fact a blue 
moon and it is rummored that a pedestrian was actually seen using this 
facility. if indeed it was designed for the ever so occasional 
pedestrians then one might have expected that the light timings might 
have been altered to reflect the new function for a high traffic bike 
crossing. Who's to know whether that would have been a good thing or a 
bad thing though.

k