Re: Bourke Street Bicycle Road

On May 13, 2:12=A0pm, "fractal" <no...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> <dixie.d...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>
> news:b47aea39-5b9b-4824-a27b-6c4624fd8b47@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> The original city bike plan up for submissions didnt have any
"Copenhagen
> style" lanes in it but somewhere along the line
> after the submissions were received and the final plan was released they
> appeared. Probably under pressure from local bike groups and
> maybe a few councillors who have been to Europe etc and think they know
> whats best, or maybe the troglodyte traffic engineers who dont want
cyclis=
ts
> on the road. King St =A0will be the first such 2 way bike lane (down a
ste=
ep
> hill, hate to think of possible handle bar tangles) then Clarence I
think =
it
> is, and Bourke St after that. SS Council did part of Bourke St in Surry
> Hills a few years ago with a contraflow bike lane with median, but that
wa=
s
> when Bourke St was one way I think, and its flat there. I dont like the
id=
ea
> of two way bike lanes on hills like Bourke St North. I have a book
called
> Collection of Cycling Concepts, put out by the Danish Govt for free, and
> they dont reccommend two way bike lanes if there are many side streets
or
> driveways etc, and there aent any pictures of them, so I dont know where
t=
he
> so called Copenhagen style lanes come from. From memory 10 years ago
> Copenhagen had =A0one way separated cycle lanes on its big wide main
stree=
ts.
> So much room it was no wonder everyone rode a bike.
>
> Sorry if that was all one long line but how do you adjust line length in
i=
n
> Outlook Express?
>
> FB in Syd knee


Just done a search or ten.  BINGO!

Looks as if a "focus group" of "potential cyclists" was shown pics of
various sorts of bike lanes and thought the two-way ones looked nice:

http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/Council/do***ents/meetings/2007/Committee=
/Planning/260307/070326_PDTC_ITEM02_ATTACHMENTE.PDF

This is borne out by the tone of the press stuff when the plan was
released.:

http://www.bicyclensw.org.au/Assets/Downloads/080208%20bourke%20st%20cyclewa=
y.pdf