Melb: Gardiners Ck path works near velodrome

[ghostgum]

Riding home from Ride of Silence, I saw the following sign:

Improving out Shared Paths
H A Smith Reserve
The City of Boroondara would like to inform you of the intended
refurbishment of a section of the shared path between Glenferrie Road
and the Velodrome.
Alternative access during construction is available along Reserve
Road.

The map on the sign didn't work well in ASCII art :-)
However it shows work on the section of path between the street on the
city side of the velodrome and the velodrome itself. That is, next to
the HV tower where they are building the mobile phone base station.
Coming from the east, you will be diverted off the path just before the
velodrome, head north between the velodrome and the hockey field, then
follow one road north then another road west before rejoining the path
just west of the velodrome.


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ghostgum

[flyingdutch]

and what a cracker of a (short) climb it is!

i can see lots of people riding ove rthe grass rather than do that.
hills-phobic people... :rolleyes:


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flyingdutch

[flyingdutch]

flyingdutch Wrote:
> and what a cracker of a (short) climb it is!
>
> i can see lots of people riding ove rthe grass rather than do that.
> hills-phobic people... :rolleyes:

PS is trail rebuild between StKevins/Gardiner Bridge and Monash offramp
complete yet?


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flyingdutch

[ghostgum]

flyingdutch Wrote:
> PS is trail rebuild between StKevins/Gardiner Bridge and Monash offramp
> complete yet?It wasn't on Saturday morning. There is a gravel surface, 3m wide,
about 100mm below where the path should be.


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ghostgum

[Bleve]

treadly&amp wrote:

> Sounds pretty good to me - especially removal of that fscking timber
> bridge.

Yep. My only roadbike crash that I can remember (the other one, I
can't remember :) ) was on one of those wooden bridges, in the wet ....
urghhh


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[flyingdutch]

Bleve Wrote:
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> Yep. My only roadbike crash that I can remember (the other one, I
> can't remember :) ) was on one of those wooden bridges, in the wet
> ....
> urghhh
>
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hehe. the steel-plate surface on the Fairfield pipebridge is much more
'interesting' on cold/damp/wet mornings

or a personal favourite, those alrge steel plates (6x12ft) they use to
temporarily cover roadworks. Like 'Cycling on Ice'


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flyingdutch

[Zebee Johnstone]

In aus.bicycle on Wed, 24 May 2006 07:03:36 +1000
flyingdutch > wrote:
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> or a personal favourite, those alrge steel plates (6x12ft) they use to
> temporarily cover roadworks. Like 'Cycling on Ice'

Which are against the guidelines everyone's supposed to be working
to.

I'll have to track down the reference, but theoretically if you report
that as a hazard to the council they have to rectify it. If it is
reported and they don't, then they are liable for the next poor
******* who falls off. And as it's against guidelines they are
probably liable even if not reported.

but reporting it's a good thing because they have to go through
motions and councils hate that! Letters go on file and have to be
answered, and once it's in the filing system it's there forever.

Writing to local papers whinging about how the council can't read the
guidelines and is too useless to follow them is good too, if you get
published then the "please explains" fly about.

Zebee

[eddiec]

flyingdutch Wrote:
> Cyclists are 'meant to dismount' :rolleyes:
>

Ah, I love those signs...

I'm particularly bemused by the one on the Gipps St Bridge - A nice
wide bridge and I don't think I've ever seen a cyclist dismount (I know
I don't)... Having 'dismount' bridges on primary bike routes seem a
little odd to me. Do make sure to be extra polite to peds there though.


I never dismounted on the Fairfield pipe bridge either as in my view
'rider next to bike' took up more space the the bike itself. Always
rode carefully though and stopped when peds needed to get through. Too
bad if you wanted to take a trailer or bent on that bridge.


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eddiec

[Bleve]

flyingdutch wrote:
> Bleve Wrote:
> >
> > Yep. My only roadbike crash that I can remember (the other one, I
> > can't remember :) ) was on one of those wooden bridges, in the wet
> > ....
> > urghhh
> >
> >
>
> hehe. the steel-plate surface on the Fairfield pipebridge is much more
> 'interesting' on cold/damp/wet mornings

Yep, ridden that in the rain at night :) A ... challenge ... you could
say

> or a personal favourite, those alrge steel plates (6x12ft) they use to
> temporarily cover roadworks. Like 'Cycling on Ice'

ahha, ja .. big tramtracks without chanels. Not too bad, as long as
you don't try and stop/turn/accelerate/deviate from straight line or
alter course at all :)


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