On 24/02/13 11:07, TimC wrote:
On 2013-02-21, James (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
[...]
The sooner the powers that be wake up to themselves, and educate the
motoring masses that bicyclists are legitimate road users, and that any
motorist that causes injury to a bicyclist will face heafty fines,
drivers license suspension or cancellation and gaol terms, the better.
It'll save us all a lot of money, time and lives, in wasted attempts to
change the infrastructure to solve the problem of cycling safety in
Australia.

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Amen...

Or as the Velominati say, A-Merckx. ;-)

I ride outside pretty much all of the marked bike lanes on my commute.
The one that appears near the intersection of Camberwell& Seymour
Grove (opposite problem to most bike lanes - appearing at
intersections is no better than disappearing at intersections) just
means that you'd get squeezed when the 2 lanes + bike lane gets
converted into 1 lane + parked cars& indented curb.

I think my favourite for absurdity is Canterbury Road, Albert park.
Tree islands that encroach the bike lane. Parked cars that far
encroach the bike lane when their doors are closed. If you leave
enough room for an open door in peak hour, you're in the left hand
wheel track of the left lane.


I hear you, Brother.

In places I'm sure the councils were told to go forth and paint bike
lanes, for no other reason than to achieve a minimum number of km's of
marked bike lane - even if they make no sense.

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JS.