Comments on: Speedlinking 17 September 2009

By: Treadly and Me

Treadly and Me — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:02:33 +0000

Oh yeah, I knew about but hadn’t noticed the bike path in the centre of North Rd previously but I was stopped at the traffic light at Clayton Rd last week and I saw someone riding along the median strip, and crossing the intersection from the middle. I thought, “What the hell is that idiot doing?” Then I realised he was doing just what the bike path was suggesting he do.

By: eccles

eccles — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:34:32 +0000

The danger to bicyclists is overwhelmingly concentrated at intersections, driveways, and other places where traffic patterns cross.

I concur. I ride up Blackburn road several times a week, where there are semi-trailers and cars doing the mad dash to and from work. A number of people have suggested that I should ride on the footpath for safety, and I've pointed out that that would mean I was riding across the traffic, not with it, as they pull in and out of all the industrial estates. For the most part the only part of the trip that makes me a bit nervous is riding across the freeway entrance.

Its also why I think the bike path down the middle of Wellington/North rd between Monash and Huntingdale stations is madness - it constantly crosses the turning lanes through the middle of the divider, and you have to cross traffic to get to it and off it.

By: Treadly and Me

Treadly and Me — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:01:27 +0000

I've no doubt about that.

(And in any case, you're so very quotable.)

By: Surly Dave

Surly Dave — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:51:59 +0000

An honour to be quoted!

Somehow I think I'll be messing around with bikes a while yet!