1) The interaction with buses and construction vehicles (presumably to be eventually replaced by emergency precinct vehicles) makes it feel like a death trap.

2) The signaling. Cyclists have a distinct set of lights from cars (and a third set for buses). The lights for cyclists wanting to cross Colombo remain red until a cyclist stops at the intersection, and then waits a full cycle for the green. This occurs even when cars have a green to cross Colombo. I suppose this is done to prioritize cars turning left onto Colombo, but when there are none it really feels like they got it backwards.

The end result: It feels safer and is certainly much faster to ride on the road than in the cycle lane.

thank you putting this up. Look I know it is easy to be critical, but I also find the failure to splice cycle roads into this more than unsatisfactory. There is an acceptance that some roading has to re-worked as the wider position developed so why is this not the same for cycling. To me this scenario clearly demonstrates the CCC reluctance to actually deal with the cycling opportunities. If the CCC had a policy on Quality, this would come in under the reporting on waste because that is what it is. After all the energy expended in recent years on this topic, the opportunity to build cycling into the thinking, planning,design and construction has been shelved.