Re: Bourke Street Bicycle Road

"terryc" <newssixspam-spam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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news:pan.2008.05.13.09.13.15.547833@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Tue, 13 May 2008 01:23:29 -0700, tenspeed wrote:
>
>> 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:
>
> Yer, I can imagine what sort of cyclists the focus group consisted of.
> They have focus groups that choose the adverts we see. Nuff said.

Bumped in to one of the consultants who is designing the Bourke St bike 
lane. He said they were aware of the dangers from turning motorists at 
intersections. They are going to do away with the median approaching the 
intersection and "curve in" the bike lane so it is next to the traffic
lane, 
with only a white line separating bikes from cars. This is to promote
better 
visibility. Still have to trust motorists not to turn across your path.
And 
how does a cyclist make a turn from wrong side of road and across the path

of other cyclists, particularly if there are a lot of cyclists?

There is an example on Marsh St (the road past the Air****t) in Arncliffe
on 
the Tempe/Botany Bay cycle path. A two way shared path crosses Innesdale
St 
and motorists turning right off Marsh St  at speed are a threat to any 
cyclist heading south unless you keep a sharp lookout over left shoulder, 
and left turning motorists are also a threat. The next cross street has 
lights so easier to negotiate.

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