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Bikeability Toolkit
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 |
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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 like the concept of a "utility cyclist" in contrast to a commuter... Tam |
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Intresting, might take it on for my local area. (although the inner wes Melb seems to be catered well for cyclists generally, but there's alway room for improvment eh? -- Marx SS |
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Marx SS Wrote: Intresting, might take it on for my local area. (although the inner wes Melb seems to be catered well for cyclists generally, but there's alway room for improvment eh?) Racecourse road could do with some improvement: No curb access to th moonee ponds drai... err... creek on one side; a dodgy now you see it now you don't 'bike lane'; the road is poorly policed and the driver some of the worst I've seen; the council ignores requests to fix th grates covering some of the drains (they've moved across just enoug for a road bike wheel to get caught in them) and they are too heavy t shift myself... Other than that though, I agree that we are pretty spoilt in the inne west for bikeability al -- alison_b |
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On 2005-07-27, Tamyka Bell (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea: Peter McCallum wrote: http://www.travelsmart.gov.au/bikeability/index.html I like the concept of a "utility cyclist" in contrast to a commuter... Now I've got the concept of a V8 ute bike in my head. 4 people on a tandem going "budubudubudubudubudubudubudubudubudubudubudub u". -- TimC "This thesis brought to you by the letter tau" -- TimC |
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TimC wrote:
On 2005-07-27, Tamyka Bell (aka Bruce) was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea: Peter McCallum wrote: http://www.travelsmart.gov.au/bikeability/index.html I like the concept of a "utility cyclist" in contrast to a commuter... Now I've got the concept of a V8 ute bike in my head. 4 people on a tandem going "budubudubudubudubudubudubudubudubudubudubudub u". I had similar thoughts but I imagined a cement mixer or a few bales of hay in the back. Zoom |
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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..... -- cfsmtb |
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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 why is cycling in Oz divided amongst SO many different 'bodies' (don answer that!) that's been about for near 2 years now.. -- flyingdutch |
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flyingdutch Wrote: why is cycling in Oz divided amongst SO many different 'bodies' (dont answer that!) Short answer: It's like herding cats. Long answer: Buy me a slab o' Goat Hightail. flyingdutch Wrote: that's been about for near 2 years now... Nope, it's being going on much much longer. -- cfsmtb |
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