Re: Sydney Bicycle accident

On May 15, 12:07 am, "Noddy" <m...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> <duncanmc...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > I see lots of them every day.. always with a car parked in them
> > somewhere along their length.
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> Interesting.
>
> > ie: they are not dedicated pieces of road. They're just some place a
> > dopey council decided to slap some paint so they could feel good about
> > themselves.
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> Must be different in your part of the world. In Melbourne we have lots
of
> bike lanes, and they're sections of the road dedicated to the exclusive
use
> of cyclists. Ie: In between the kerbside car parking places and the
nearest
> car lane. You can't park or drive in them.
>
> Like
this:http://www.boroondarabug.org/wiki/index.php/Image:IMG_5656_267_200.jpg
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> Not all of them are as nicely laid out as that one though. Most of them
> usually come about at the expense of vehicle lane space, and, as usual,
> cyclists don't have to pay a cracker to have them.

Well it seems Melbourne is more enlightened than NSW,.. they're
universally **** here, apart from some of the shared pathways (non-
road) emerging.

   duncan