Two things- If bikes are so gnarly and scary,why do pedestrians constantly want to step out in front of me. Secondly if the cyclists they spoke to were on the Bouke St. cycleway I am suprised because usage is low.
Hi-ten is heavy (known by some as "gas pipe", and the bikes you've looked at both have pretty low-spec bits on them. Combo of cheap steel and cheap bits means cheap retail price.
Others who know more about this stuff than me will tell you that hi-t…
1999 !, how things have changed, nice hand drawn plans. Page 112 says Bourke St (not road) and I am sure there are many sections of Bourke St that are not 12.4 m wide. This is of course an RTA document so they presumably never proceeded. Clover etal…
I actually like this - you can see this design work between Devonshire St and Cleveland St - on Bourke St. This should be replicated all the way up Bourke St.
I think you misunderstand what I referred to.
Have you looked at the Local Area Improvement Plan, particularly Detail K on Page 112 ?
This shows that the proposal was for uni-directional cycle lanes on bourke road, with two lanes of car parking, o…
Kevin, there is nothing wrong with you having high benchmarks and pursuing the ideal solution but politics is also the art of the possible. The current CoS council is the most pro-cycling arm of government we have ever had. We could be in danger of…
My benchmarks were nothing more than the plans for Bourke St released as part of the Eastern Distributor consultations. These proposed uni-directional cycleways on both sides of Bourke St, with a single traffic lane.
If someone can convince me thes…