But Clover Moore wants to try and simplify cycleway design in order to be able to get them done more cheaply and quickly.
Naturally the state government is trying to deflect away any suggestion that it might be the hold-up...
Good on Clover for trying, but fortunately I don't have to ride in the CBD anymore. Hopefully for those that do, she'll manage to complete the missing links.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/cit ... 4znae.html
Finishing off all of the missing links is really the key thing to getting more people riding for transport purposes (eg, getting to work).
There are some glaring missing links, like the cycleway running from Guildford to Prospect Dam and on to Fairfield, that should be connected to the Cooks River Cycleway, and with Parramatta Road to be upgraded, surely there is scope to put a cycleway right along the length of it to get people from Western Sydney to the CBD. And another one is a cycleway along the M4 west of Granville to get people quickly to the M7 near Eastern Creek or further out to Penrith or Emu Plains.
Currently people wanting to ride west along the M4 motorway must use the cycleway near the Caterpillar service place, then lift their bike over the barrier and then climb over the barrier themselves and ride on the motorway. Sure, there is a gate there to the shoulder, but it is locked...
There is no other way unless you want to go on circuitous diversions through Merrylands, Greystanes and elsewhere or through Westmead and up Old Windsor Road.