Talk:North Toowong corridor

Great work Ian! Just wondering how you included the Google map.

With a third party Google Maps extension. I also want to make use of semantic content to automate generation of maps with local features. -- Ian Lister 11:54, 14 April 2007 (EST)

Can people bypass the bad bits by going an alternative route from Sylvan Rd to Dean St? -- Anthony

That's part of what Kim's suggestion of taking Wool St and Ascog Tce around to Norwood St would do. I'm not sure if there are many other options along those lines, at least without going a long way out of one's way. Also, the land to the south is elevated, so once you're down at the bottom of Dean St then taking a more southerly route means climbing Dean St only to have to come back down again later. (Kim's suggestion avoids this by trying to get onto the ridge early, on the way into the park). -- Ian Lister 11:54, 14 April 2007 (EST)

Re dean st crossing

I'm sure the traffic island is /supposed/ to obstruct pepople crossing diagonally. Crossing diagonally (and riding up the wrong side of the road to achieve it) is freaking daft. I had occasion to travel Dean st last weekend in one of those newfangled automobile carriages, and found that dealing with all the potential hazards at that intersection was quite enough to worry about, without adding 'creative' cyclists making suicidal short-cuts into the mix. -- Unixbigot 10:45, 14 May 2007 (EST)

You're right, the suggestion that the island was a problem in that it inhibited diagonal crossing was not terribly sensible. Sebastian has now removed this from the current text. What do you think about the practice of (inbound) turning left onto Dean St then right to the bus road/carpark, and (outbound) turning left onto Dean St and then right into the park? Both would seem to be legal and don't seem obviously "bad" to me, but they're not really all that different from going across diagonally. -- Ian Lister 09:44, 16 May 2007 (EST)