Peter McCallum Wrote:
The Bicycle Federation Australia list reports today that there is a new
tool available for advocates, engineers or anone else wanting to do a
review (quick and dirty or detailed) of a bike route, local area or
bike plan. I've only had a brief look but it seems to be quite useful.

http://www.travelsmart.gov.au/bikeability/index.html


I'd strongly suggest subscribing to the bfa-oz list to read furthe
comments:
http://lists.topica.com/lists/bfa-oz

An extract of Michael Yeates comments,
http://www.yeatesit.biz/

".....Recently the following observation was made in regard t
guideline C1 produced by QT ...

-(Quote)Yet again a document that has no relevance for fast moving roa
bikes. The needs of these riders are almost always submerged in a pus
to get people off roads and on to shared facilities.-

This seems to reflect a general reluctance (by both bureaucrats an
cycling group representatives) to deal with the fact that many cyclist
are travelling quite easily and comfortably at speeds 25km/h ... an
the best place for that is "on the road" ...!

This speed advantage is one of the reasons cycling is a useful mode o
transport but it must be able to be maintained. For example once on
path, what should be the waiting time at traffic lights at the roa
crossings and if no traffic lights, should cyclists be given priorit
ie "right of way" at all or most crossings? This is part of the concep
of "continuity" as road crossings are (generally) accepted as the mos
dangerous and most delaying part of a bike path trip ie they are no
able to be excluded from the continuity criteria.....

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cfsmtb