Comments on: Flashback Friday: Separated Bikeways – More Good Evidence

By: Stephen

Stephen — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 01:38:25 +0000

I have to agree about St Asaph… the block with PB Tech, and PB Tech’s driveway in particular, is where I fear most that a driver pulling in to a business is going to roll through the cycle lane without looking for me. It’s nice that the local car yards have pavement signs reminding drivers to check before they pull in, but I feel there must be something about the design of the street that encourages this behaviour… maybe the way that the camber of the road AND the parking bays mean that when the parking bays are occupied, you as a cyclist are not very visible to the driver thinking to pull in.

By: chris abbott

chris abbott — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 05:01:41 +0000

I LOVE separated cycleways. From our home in Sumner I can cycle the first 6.5km to town on the Chch Coastal Pathway, then have the choice of
– upstream alongside the Heathcote River (slow and scenic and separated),
– Charlesworth Reserve (shared w pedestrians), out to separated cycleway on Humphreys Drive (and on to the separated Linwood Drain path or the centre or unseparated sides of Linwood Ave). Then onto quiet roads through Linwood and onto the CBD usually down Worcester St.

I am especially wary of St. Asaph Street as I have too often been cut off by cars crossing – it feels safer than the roadside cycle lanes though