Comments on: Solway St Bridge: It’s getting tedious now http://treadly.net/2007/05/10/solway-st-bridge-its-getting-tedious-now/ Work is just something I do between bike rides Fri, 04 May 2012 07:22:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Treadly and Me http://treadly.net/2007/05/10/solway-st-bridge-its-getting-tedious-now/comment-page-1/#comment-738 Treadly and Me Fri, 11 May 2007 03:55:15 +0000 http://treadly.thingoid.com/?p=325#comment-738 <p>Yeah, the whole setup is less than ideal and they do need to find a way to reduce the angle of the northern approach to the bridge.</p> <p>I was a bit surprised when I first read it but according to the <a href="http://camweb.boroondara.vic.gov.au/webebp.nsf/2dbc5376008042f6ca256cad001d4019/ca256cad00811d37ca2571d2001f4ccc?OpenDocument" rel="nofollow"> proposal</a> on the Boroondara web site, flooding actually is one of the key issues.</p> Yeah, the whole setup is less than ideal and they do need to find a way to reduce the angle of the northern approach to the bridge.

I was a bit surprised when I first read it but according to the proposal on the Boroondara web site, flooding actually is one of the key issues.

]]> By: eccles http://treadly.net/2007/05/10/solway-st-bridge-its-getting-tedious-now/comment-page-1/#comment-737 eccles Thu, 10 May 2007 23:43:01 +0000 http://treadly.thingoid.com/?p=325#comment-737 <p>Yeah... those designs seem <em>insane</em>. The right angle turn that the main path has to make, the raised bit from way back into the golf course... i wonder if the golf course raised a fuss.</p> <p>The main problem with the existing bridge is that the path coming down from solway street is very steep and feeds straight onto the bridge which makes it very hard to safely join the larger bike path, even if you were being responsible. (It also was covered with slippery leaves for much of the year).</p> <p>A shallower bridge further along the creek might be better suited to joining the anniversary trail up to the gardiner's creek one. I'm sure that the golf course won't be too thrilled about that either, but there's not a lot of locations where it would work. (A shallower bridge at the same location that crossed the bridge at an angle and joined downstream might be ok).</p> <p>I'm not sure flooding is much a concern. Somewhere I have some photos of gardiners creek in full psycho mode, and that bridge as it stands was still a meter or so off the water's surface at the lower end.</p> Yeah… those designs seem insane. The right angle turn that the main path has to make, the raised bit from way back into the golf course… i wonder if the golf course raised a fuss.

The main problem with the existing bridge is that the path coming down from solway street is very steep and feeds straight onto the bridge which makes it very hard to safely join the larger bike path, even if you were being responsible. (It also was covered with slippery leaves for much of the year).

A shallower bridge further along the creek might be better suited to joining the anniversary trail up to the gardiner’s creek one. I’m sure that the golf course won’t be too thrilled about that either, but there’s not a lot of locations where it would work. (A shallower bridge at the same location that crossed the bridge at an angle and joined downstream might be ok).

I’m not sure flooding is much a concern. Somewhere I have some photos of gardiners creek in full psycho mode, and that bridge as it stands was still a meter or so off the water’s surface at the lower end.

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