Cycling in Melbourne Australia
MCC's 'Swanston Street fix' in The Age today
It seems Robert Doyle is in favour of a slightly modified status quo, as reported in today's The Age. The Council is looking at four possible options, and Harry Barbour is quoted as well, saying 5000 cyclists use Swanston Street a day. Good old Harry - Mr rent-a-quote. But from the report it's not clear what the Council does have in mind for cyclists. At least delivery vehicles and taxis will be banned or severely restricted in access to the length of the street. We'll have to stay tuned and see what develops I guess.
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Permalink Reply by Ritsardo on -
Stupid ideas for MCC.
A shared access solution will be much more vibrant and lively. Sensible design of separation between pedestrians, bikes, cars/vans and trams will keep more people happy and make the street quite practical. Swanston Street with no cars is nuts.
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Permalink Reply by James on -
Same ol' same ol' another 20M going no where fast. It's not his money after all.
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Permalink Reply by weg on -
I'm obviously missing something. First The Age has Doyle saying 'you would not see these service delivery vehicles or taxis cruising ... Swanston Street' but then saying 'service vehicles and taxis would be able to use the street between tram stops'.
Thus the story so far - we won't see delivery vehicles, but we will, and they'll be there during the day as well.
Then we have Harry Barber suggesting that's progress because cars are off the menu. The logic escapes me.
I wonder how Harry will comment on these things when BV ceases to even claim to be a bicycle advocacy group and morphs into a health promotion charity in November.
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Permalink Reply by Steve Jay on -
LOL! "Good old Harry - Mr rent-a-quote."
As for the contradictions in the article, I think the Age's journo (or sub) misunderstood that there are four options out for public comment.
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Permalink Reply by ChrisS on -
Meanwhile, several years later:
http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/ParkingTransportandRoads/Roads/Swan...
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Since 1992 private motor vehicles have been restricted from accessing Swanston between 7am and 7pm. From midnight 20 May 2011, the existing restrictions will extend to 24 hours, seven days a week. Strictly no private motor vehicles are permitted to enter Swanston Street between Flinders and Latrobe Streets from 20 May 2011.
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Permalink Reply by Steve Jay on
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Today Swanston Street, tomorrow the world ;-)
As for walking bike past construction works, when are motorists ever expected to push their cars past road works? :-/
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Permalink Reply by Chris Harris on -
Yeh, so true... this pissed me off often.
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