Sydney’s inner west has the conditions for a cycling boom, but riders say the network falls short
Posted by ballimi
Sydney’s inner west has the conditions for a cycling boom, but riders say the network falls short
Posted by ballimi
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That Carrington Road cycleway is always an accident waiting to happen. People driving down the side roads aren’t expecting the cycleway and I have to be hyper alert/hovering over my brake handles watching for traffic from each side, not to mention all the trucks that park in it while making deliveries.
IWC are gradually adding more cycleways which hopefully won’t suffer from the same shamozzle as Carrington and Livingstone Roads.
https://yoursay.innerwest.nsw.gov.au/marrickville-road-east-cycle-path
https://yoursay.innerwest.nsw.gov.au/lilyfield-road-bike-path-concept-design-and-proposed-angle-parking
Absolutely insane that that was how they ended up implementing that cycleway when the other side has no intersections
Cycleways won’t work until they give riders the freedoms a road does. One needs only spend a day riding to have your eyes opened to just how dominant the car-centric infrastructure is.
A great example is how cycleways terminate at each intersection, giving way to cars turning left, and only at the end of each lights sequence does a cyclist get to continue on their journey.
It’s a fucking joke.
I would add Wilson Street to the danger zone. Have had two separate crashes there because you have a one-way road and two-way cycle lane intersected with numerous side streets. Cars coming out of the side streets often pause in a way that makes cyclists think they have been seen, even when the drivers are actually only looking for traffic on the road an are completely oblivious to bikes coming from the opposite direction,
I have twice been hit by cars in this way. You have to have either great visibility of the driver, or be an expert at reading body language, or both. And then you hit the King Street intersection in the middle of Newtown and are on a busy dangerous junction.
Should also add re. Carrington Road that it will get slightly better for cyclists; IWC is converting Schwebel Street to one way from Illawarra Road to Carrington Road so you’ll only have to worry about looking one way for that one junction
> Darcy Byrne “We have some of the oldest roads in Sydney, they weren’t designed for active transport …
He might be quite surprised to discover that those roads weren’t originally designed with cars in mind at all.