wombatK wrote:
King St has moved to Newtown
Wonder if the quote from the Premier is any more accurate
Even NSW Premier Kristina Keneally, a daily cycle commuter, detests the Bourke Rd and Bourke St lanes, saying via Twitter in July: "I have opposed the City of Sydney's Bourke St cycleway for some time now. There are better alternatives."
Can't wait to see what her proposed alternatives are. Wonder if it's the proposed 40 kph city limit and 10 kph shared streets
http://smh.drive.com.au/roads-and-traff ... 156zc.html
Her actual quote was “@fifimurray I have opposed the City of Sydney's Bourke St cycleway (in Heffron) for some time now. There are better alternatives.â€
http://twitter.com/KKeneally/status/18962759219
How that translates to detesting Bourke
Road, is Daily Telegraph logic.
From article:
The Daily Telegraph spent a month commuting on the derided Bourke Rd bike lanes, a route beginning at Beaconsfield that will eventually, for some bizarre reason, lead to Russell Crowe's house in Woolloomooloo rather than the CBD.
We should just close Bourke Road and Bourke Street down completely; surely cars only want to go to the CBD.
You can find complainers for every sort of bicycle infrastructure:
Bike lanes under cars: complain
Bicycle stencils on roads: complain
Shared paths: complain
Road shoulders: complain
Separated bicycle paths: complain
When DT wants to target a particular a particular infrastructure: DT will just choose to highlight complaints; suddenly all the other “infrastructure†is fine. Make no mistake, this is a anti-Clover article.