Comments on: Cycling Central Melbourne https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/2019/02/11/cycling-central-melbourne/ Regular people riding bicycles Wed, 25 Nov 2020 01:44:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: Robert https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/2019/02/11/cycling-central-melbourne/#comment-21085 Sat, 16 Feb 2019 23:36:35 +0000 http://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/?p=19001#comment-21085 In reply to Julian.

Great comment Julian, thanks for contributing. Would be interested to hear what you think of Christchurch and cycling next visit back. I think we should be able to outclass Melbourne for the cycling experience, and it just may be a little less than ‘decades’ ; possibly even less than ‘a decade’ . Bit of bias coming through there though.

]]> By: Julian https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/2019/02/11/cycling-central-melbourne/#comment-20865 Mon, 11 Feb 2019 06:15:32 +0000 http://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/?p=19001#comment-20865 Interesting article!
One-eyed Cantab here that relocated to Melbourne in November 2017.
I’d only started seeing my bike as a total car replacement in the months leading up to my shift, but had been commuting to work 1-5 days a week from Woolston to Barrington for about 18 months.
Prior to that, I’d seen cycling as something only to do recreationally.
I’m totally star-struck by any cargo bike I see now, but haven’t yet bitten the bullet and bought one.
Now in Melbourne, we’ve yet to buy a car (we live in an area that’s very walkable – only 25 minutes trot to the CBD!), and I have been commuting to work as much as I can by bike – a trip of 23km, or 1 hour and 10 minutes give or take on the bike, EACH WAY.
That distance is at the limits of reasonable, especially since I also have a physical job, but almost all of the route is on ‘shared’ cycle/pedestrian pathways or cycle priority streets. And that is a god-send. It takes away so much of the danger, and now it’s slow and frustrating pedestrians that employ my concentration.
While the cycle network here is far from perfect, you really can travel the length and breadth of Melbourne on some form of cycle infrastructure.
I haven’t had the chance yet to sample Christchurch’s new cycle lanes but it is so heartwarming seeing the developments, and so needed, too.
If Christchurch can it up, it’s cycle lanes will out-class Melbourne’s within decades.

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