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    Why Australia still struggles to build bike-friendly cities

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    1. Borrid on

      Tom Humphries is a joke.

      Literally standing on a footpath filming himself complaining that bike lanes don’t connect to anything, while opposing the bike lanes that would connect them.

    2. LegElectrical9214 on

      How? I live in Melbourne, and it is in general bigger than Copenhagen, the most bike friendly in the world. Melbourne house about 5mil of people while, Copenhagen’s population is about 1.5mil. Not only that the weather in Melbourne is cruel, especially in summer! I don’t see any city in Aus will become bike friendly any time soon

    3. northofreality197 on

      Australia hates cyclists. Many road users seem to actually want cyclists dead. I honestly don’t believe we will ever have properly bike friendly cities. With the constant importing of American style pick ups & the culture that comes with them things are only getting worse.

    4. Psychlonuclear on

      Has anyone done a comparison of bike use vs “hillyness” in different cities? (Yeah that’s a word in my head!)

      You can go a hell of a long way with little effort on flat ground, but a lot of Melbourne is not friendly to those that are less than perfectly healthy and fit.

    6. TheloniousMeow on

      I once saw a comment from a fuckwit that said that people should quit with the bicycle infrastructure ideas as we aren’t Amsterdam and should get over it.

      Amsterdam used to be all cars. But then they fixed it.

      Some people’s ideas about cycling are very confused. And there is some real animosity. I was shocked by that Jolly guy and his antics during the lane reduction in Richmond. Guy is an absolute bell end.

    7. RE201 on

      Here come the people who have zero knowledge on urbanism and city economics, who haven’t ridden a bike since they were 12, to tell us why Melbourne can’t possibly change the status quo for spurious reasons.

    8. Puzzleheaded-Run-230 on

      cycling in Melbourne is pretty special. Got called a cunt by a 70+ year old, while riding in a cycling lane. It’s a great place to ride, but watch out for the agro Tradies in utes, they are the most inconsiderate and likely to cut you off. Like anywhere, a small minority spoiling it.

    9. Polar_Beach on

      Don’t understand people who don’t support this. I’m literally doing you a favour my getting out of your way.

    10. Georg_Steller1709 on

      Melbourne has a remarkably contiguous biking network. The issue is that you have to get off it and onto the roads at some point to get where you want to go.

    11. German_Merman on

      A mate of mine works for an LGA. He was facilitating a community meeting recently about the removal of 3 on-street parking spaces to install a pedestrian crossing outside a church. There’s a council parking lot right across the road, basically the pedestrian crossing is needed because the oldies are having trouble crossing the road from the parking lot to get to church. So this is basically 3 parking spots on a side street, right next to a parking lot that has space for a hundred cars or so. He said the community meeting was basically 90 minutes of boomers screaming at him. Red faces, spit flying, calling him every name under the sun. A lot of the people who turned up didn’t even live in the neighbourhood, they just saw there was a proposal to remove parking spots and that set them off. How the fuck are we ever going to build decent bike and walking infrastructure while these people are still around? 

    12. CptnWolfe on

      Take the word Cyclist, take out the letters between C and T, and replace them with two letters. The results is what they are.