Mikael Colville-Andersen of Copenhagenize.com narrates this five minute Streetfilms look at bicycling infrastructure in Copenhagen. Maybe yet, something positive can come out of COP15.
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The iconic Horseshoe Bridge which links Wellington Street to Roe Street is currently being upgraded and hence is closed to all traffic including cyclists until April 2010. That said, Main Roads are indicating that the bridge will open four southbound traffic in March 2010 before fully opening in April 2010 for two way traffic.
Main Roads have a project page on the upgrade of the bridge but it does not have any useful information for cyclists and there is no details as to whether cyclists will be catered for in the upgrade.
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Have you had an incident with involving the railway tracks on Railway Parade, Bassendean? If yes please consider posting the details as a comment on Casual Cyclist’s blog posting, The great Railway Crossing saga continues so that a catalogue of incidents can be built up and hopefully something can be done about this dangerous railway crossing.
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Interested in a sneak preview of the Town of Cambridge Bicycle Plan? According to Lauren Arcus, Infrastructure Administration at the Town of Cambridge, “the Town’s Bike Plan … is not yet available to the public. It will I’m sure be available on the Town’s website as soon as this happens.” So it seems one must monitor the Town of Cambridge’s website to get a copy of the 2009 Bicycle Plan.
Well you may be able to see a draft or even possibly the final plan, thanks to the Town of Cambridge’s Infrastructure and Community Committee meeting of Tuesday May 12, 2009. Referring to this attachment of documents from the Committee meeting, click on the bookmark marked ATTACHMENT 1 OF 2 TO ITEM IC09.32 and ATTACHMENT 2 OF 2 TO ITEM IC09.32 for the report prepared by Tony Shaw of Shawmac. It makes interesting reading for sure and if nothing else it will be interesting to compare against the final plan released by the Town.
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The October 24, 2009 issue of Cambridge Post (Vol 36, No. 42) on page 22 is reporting that a three metre off-road cycle path will be built by the City of Nedlands and the Town of Cambridge. The path will run between the Challenge Stadium and the junction of Underwood Avenue and Brockway Road, Floreat.
According to the Cambridge Post article the three metre wide lit off-road path will cost $253,626. Construction is expected to start after February 2010 and finish by July 2010.
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A search of the City of Nedlands and Town of Cambridge websites did not provide any further information on the proposed bike path so I will follow-up with City of Nedlands with the intent of obtaining a copy of the plans for the proposed path.
Playing around in Google Maps I estimated the path length at approximately 950 metres, which works out at a cost of $89.00 per linear metre. If this is anywhere near correct, the Councils could have built a hard surface path for this cost!
Update: October 30, 2009: I have had an email chat with Wayne Mo, Design Engineer at the City of Nedlands and it appears that a plan is not yet available but maybe available in 2010. Mr Mo suggested I contact him then and so will do so. I am curious but as to how the Council can get a grant without a plan. I guess one of life’s mysteries.
Update: October 31, 2009: I emailed both the City of Nedlands and the Town of Cambridge. I have received an informative reply from Jon Bell, Manager Infrastructure Works at the Town of Cambridge of which I am appreciative. Mr Bell’s reply is posted below.
The newspaper report is ambiguous.
A 3 m wide shared path on the north side of Underwood Avenue between Meagher Drive and Perry Lakes Drive. Drawing is attached. This is being constructed by the state government as part of the Perth Athletics Stadium project and Perry Lakes Stadium Redevelopment. They expect construction in December 2009. They will also provide the missing link between Meagher Drive and Brookdale Road as Stage 2.
The Town of Cambridge and City of Nedlands will be constructing the missing link between Perry Lakes Drive and Challenge Stadium on the south side of Stephenon Avenue to link up with the existing path. This is waiting for the earthworks to be completed along the alignment by the contractor that is constructing the Athletics Stadiums. We were originally advised October 2009 but this may become February 2009.
The City of Nedlands was recently advised that they have received a grant from the Federal Government to construct a section of path on the south side of Underwood Avenue from Brockway Road to Meagher Drive and south side of Stephenson Avenue east of Challenge Stadium. This path will link up with the internal paths within this athletics complex.
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