Comments on: Adelaide: Sharrows https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/2014/06/13/adelaide-sharrows/ Regular people riding bicycles Fri, 15 Apr 2022 02:52:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Olly Powell https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/2014/06/13/adelaide-sharrows/#comment-968 Mon, 16 Jun 2014 21:19:43 +0000 http://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/?p=5507#comment-968 I had a bit of a look at the changes a few months ago on a work trip to Adelaide. I quite like the idea really, Expecially because the positioning of the marking right in the middle like that. Most of the streets in the photos are really quiet and fairly narrow. A number of them I believe are also actually in 40km/h zones. They have little need for “lanes” so long as cycling is expected in the middle. I’ve never had much trouble on them when I lived in Adelaide even before the signage, but I’m sure it would only help. The real improvement for these routes is with the crossings at main roads. The car parking on these narrow streets serves as de-facto traffic calming.

I thought this would possibly be a better approach for part of the Matai St West route, beween the railway and CGHS. This would solve all the issues around pedestrains milling about on the proposed cyle lane and get rid of the complex network of pedestrian crossings etc around the bend near the railway line.

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