[bikeqld] Moggill Rd crossing at Indooroopilly

[Bob Wagner]

Those bike lights have been there for a  while now. My concern was  
that, just like Kim says, you must still dismount on the zerba parts  
of the crossing. I ride with a policeman, and at points like this wait  
till he says it is ok to procede.


Bob Wagner
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On 11/01/2010, at 1:05 PM, kim <pharmer_kim at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
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