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Thanks Seb ...<br><br>
Aside from some of the more useful critiques of BCC cycling policy
outcomes on the C-M website, what is also interesting is the following
...
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<dd>The bikeway project, part of the council's $100 million spend on
<font color="#FF0000"><b><u>shared</u></b></font> cycle paths,
<dd>will deliver two 400m-long separated pedestrian and cycle paths to
make the section
<dd>between Cribb St and Park Rd safer.
</dl>Aside from a fair bit of whinging and whining about the way
pedestrians assert their "right of way", it seems relatively
few cyclists find the bikeway aka "shared footpath" in need of
safety improvements (aside from reinstating it as "bikeway" and
NOT a "shared footpath").<br><br>
So is this yet another example of what at first seems to be $100m for
cycling but in fact is $100m for pedestrians? <br><br>
I may be as guilty as others in terms of not reading the "good
news" carefully ... but this is the first time I recall having
noticed that the $100m is for "SHARED cycle paths"
...!<br><br>
So NOTHING for "bikeways"? <br><br>
Also there is the project cost:benefit ratio.<br><br>
What exactly is the cost for this 400m of improvement .. multiply that by
5 to get to Toowong = how much?<br><br>
Is that worth spending ... or are there other solutions? Or other places
where there would be more "bang for the buck"?<br><br>
(Reinstating) permanent bus lanes on Coro Drive might cost as much as
perhaps $250,000 in line marking and signs and symbols ... and allow say
another $250,000 for proper kerb ramp access and exit points for cyclists
who could then enjoy cycling on the road as some do now (and quite a few
more would, and did, with the bus lane in operation).<br><br>
So is this project to widen the "bikeway" also primarily to
continue to benefit motorists and continue to the "disbenefit"
for bus passengers on Coro Drive?<br><br>
Where these separated facilities have been used in other places, they
still are not "safe" as people tend to cross them and if one
path is a bit congested, use the other ..! One example was later
converted to ONE WAY operation but shared by peds AND cyclists ... not
sure how it now operates ...! Given the 2500m length and it being
straight, I am not sure whether the operation of the separated paths at
Kangaroo Point provide a useful comparison with Coro Drive. <br><br>
Any thoughts about any of these observations? <br><br>
MY............................<br><br>
At 07:57 AM 4/05/2009, Sebastian Tauchmann wrote:<br><br>
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<a href="http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,20797,25422176-952,00.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,20797,25422176-952,00.html</a>
<br><br>
As always, they're asking "commentators" to throw dung at
cyclists...<br><br>
<br>
"Traffic controllers to restore safety for cyclists, pedestrians on
bikeway<br><br>
By Bruce McMahon<br><br>
A SERIES of brushes between cyclists and pedestrians has forced a<br>
stop-go rule on the Bicentennial Bikeway upgrade alongside the<br>
Brisbane River.<br>
Brisbane City Council has suspended pedestrian access on a 400m<br>
section at Milton, in the city's inner-west, sending pedestrians on
to<br>
a narrow footpath along Coronation Drive.<br><br>
Down below, cyclists - managed by traffic controllers from 5am to
8pm<br>
- travel on a temporary construction boardwalk, one direction at a<br>
time."<br><br>
continues and asks "Your Say: Are cyclists on the Bicentennial
Bikeway<br>
out of control?" - nice priming of the pump there.<br><br>
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