Cycling in Sydney Australia
Monorail to be pulled down - get writing to Gladys
See http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/monorail-to-be-pulled-down-20120323-1vnss...
And see also Jason B's suggestion to re-use the supports for a cycleway across Pyrmont Bridge
http://www.sydneycyclist.com/forum/topics/10-15-police-plus-reporte...
At the very least, this presents an opportunity to reduce the pedestrian-cyclist conflict on Pyrmont Bridge.
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Permalink Reply by herzog on -
Think of it as something akin to a European town square, such as you see in places like Cologne or Vienna.
Yes, some walkers and cyclists need to cross the square to get somewhere, but others will amble and take photos, and some will just be hanging out. It's all part of the ambience.It wouldn't make sense to ask people to walk in a line down one section of a town square.
Having said that, European cyclists seem to manage to ride in such places without the need to cut up pedestrians.
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Permalink Reply by Martin Geliot on -
exactly, and peds have the courtesy and sense to keep to the side on bridges there, as they used to do in Sydney's horse and cart days.
It's a bridge not a Platz, albeit a go slow one
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Permalink Reply by Alexander Liauw on -
Agree with getting rid of monorail - but tis allows for a new convention center??? do we really need another big ugly building in darling harbour? is the convention center really not big enough allready?
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Permalink Reply by Carlos Kramer on -
An elevated cycleway across PB using the monorail stanchions terminating at Market St would be just peachy. It'd remove all the conflict.
How much could it cost? The monorail track should easily hold a bolt on cycleway. Could relocate the covers from the stations to make a covered tunnel for most of the length - and they already include windows.
And it could also double as a pilot project to study the feasibility of an elevated cycle network around Sydney!
Should at least get some value out of it - it was such a waste of money - unbelievable how much the pollies crowed about it in the day. I guess the chances of the forward thinking NSW govt running with this are pretty slim?
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Permalink Reply by PaulJ on -
Write to Gladys office@berejiklian.minister.nsw.gov.au about it.
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Permalink Reply by Neil Alexander on -
Done.
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Permalink Reply by _rogers on -
But it has all been done before - albeit 100 years ago, in America (Los Angeles, no less)... but definitely 14.4km of elevated cycleway.
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Permalink Reply by Neil Alexander on
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Fantastic stuff, M.R. I love this bit:
Part of the design was to be a completely uninterrupted path by bridging over obstacles like creeks, roads, train tracks, and maintain only the slightest of grades (no more than 3%) [sounds familiar] over the 9 miles of smooth wooden track over an elevation of 600 feet. The entire project would have cost an estimated $187,500 at the time, and included a casino ...
Woohoo!! I think I have an idea about how HarbourLink and other major cycleways can be funded. Duncan, Gladys, George?
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Permalink Reply by Bob Moore on -
Could be a good poster for the sternfart on April 1. They did it in LA, why not here!
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Permalink Reply by Bob Moore on
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Main benefit of the monorail is the line of shadow it casts on PBridge. If it get converted into a wider elevated Bikeway the shade zone will be even better for keeping the sun off. Another selling point?
JasonB also had the brilliant idea that if this ran all the way to say York St or further they could remove the King St fiasco. One problem may be that if the path is about 5 m above street level you would need quite long ramps to come down, and then they would want to put bollards in to slow cyclists down etc.
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Permalink Reply by Michael O'Reilly on -
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Permalink Reply by baa baa on -
Mr Ohh. I do not understand your post. Is this the topic for this weeks sydcychappyhour?
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