Re: Bourke Street Bicycle Road

Copenhagen lanes?

Hadn't heard that description before; just googled it and all became
clear when I hit the BV website.

Are the Swanston St ones causing the fuss in the forums one-way or
two?

Please excuse my ignorance, have only recently learned that our
current Sydney ones are properly called shoulder lanes.....




On May 11, 9:40=A0pm, Zebee Johnstone <zeb...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> In aus.bicycle on Sun, 11 May 2008 03:20:26 -0700 (PDT)
>
> tenspeed <tensp...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > Is this going to be safer/faster/better than the existing Bourke
> > Street Bike Lanes?
>
> Consider the fun if the parked cars are vans or big 4WDs, there's only
> one bicycle, and it's a BMX or similar small bike, and a car darts
> into a driveway.
>
> I believe that the majority of crashes in places with Copenhagen lanes
> are at intersections, partly because the cars don't realise the bikes
> will be there, and partly due to sightlines.
>
> Zebee