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Would you please do a review of the new bike lanes that follow the train line from Waurn Ponds to Geelong? The new bike lane is open between Gundog road to South Geelong. However it emerges onto Breakwater road and stops between the Geelong Show grounds and Fyans Road. It is another Geelong bike lane to nowhere! Love the videos!

Your vid pretty muvh sums it up. If the authorities think that just stencilling bicycles on the roadway everywhere will placate cyclists , they are wrong. At least for me, they only serve to remind how lacking the bicycle infrastructure is over all. It is also disheartening to realise that most of the "better": infrastructure-e.g. the Copenhagen lanes appearing around Melbourne-is also often poorly designed and stinks of being a token gesture.

Schrödinger's road infrastructure.

Nice vid

The main problem is that there isint enough room to see him coming on his bike, that or hebis ridingnhis bike too gast for them to react

Shocking.

When marked parking completely overlaps with a bike lane that is also immediately next to the kerb, would this kind of count as a subtype of this phenomenon? Example ///entertainer.news.yarn

We have these lanes everywhere in Adelaide, in fact one local was killed on Duthy St in Unley earlier this year because of these parking/bike lane hybrid. The council of Unley has done nothing since his death and it was not the first one on that stretch of road in Adelaide's inner south.

This is obscene! Imagine a car lane that was also a parking lane . no one could move! think its so the council or whomever could tick off covering 'active transport'

Ha ha! I like the idea of parking my bike in a car lane! It's a wonder how entitled car drivers can be.. Maybe the police can enforce parking rules instead of just the helmet laws.

Oh wow, that's jaw-dropping. I ride in the ACT and when I occasionally think its getting too hard I come and look in your channel for a sanity check!! Thanks for sharing what I sometimes find quite hard to believe.

Geelong is such a weird city honestly.

Delineators and bollards are technically distinct.

I think it'd be better if a lot of the parking was behind buildings and in alleys I guess. That's generally how it is in Japan. And I've seen examples of parallel parking in some New York alleys(likely not Manhattan due to how few it has).

The Geelong CBD congestion has been terrible for years, especially during trendy visiting times. Why would anyone want to go there when after you've tried a few times without success. I can't fathom how bike lanes could have made it even worse.

nice. the 1 cyclist per week using this doesnt have to stop or pay attention when crossing the road. fu the thousands of cars that use this road per week and the people wanting to park in those 3 spaces. still no one using the bike lanes in your vids!

See where I live in Arizona it's exactly the reverse. There's never anything like a "Give Way" sign to the drivers, only "Yield" signs for the riders. Ass backwards if you ask me. Doesn't matter where either. Most always the same excepting along one short clip of the recreational bike path.

Partially related: Did you see the 7:30 report on a couple of deadly cycling intersections that was on tonight? It is up on YT.

Good change, the removed car spaces would be better if they had some sort of cross thatching paint to make it more obvious no parking there.

Sure, it's a minor improvement. However, the situation is far more grim if instead of following the 'bicycle lane' north, you need to head west, which means connecting onto Kilgour St and then Noble St, which is the only option for some. There is nothing remotely 'bicycle friendly' if one needs to cross Latrobe Terrace/Princes Hwy there unless you head 5km north to Little Malop St, and 5km south again.

Nice video and advocacy. It’s great to shine a light on local politicians. There isn’t enough coverage of things that affect our everyday life. Best of luck in Geelong. I’m from Brisbane but only recently realised some of the comments from local council, like pedestrian crossings are downgrades, who would ride a bicycle etc. like to redo my recent vote 😂.

Parking in a bike lane should be immediate towing and license suspension. Those drivers are clearly inept; their inability to manage a parked car raises one question, should they be trusted with a moving one?

Hobartian here agreeing with @bobburton9936’s comment. The go to excuse for putting in bike lanes is that they’re used by commuters so it’s good for the environment, but for all but the most central city streets, the bike lanes go entirely unused on weekdays, and only see use from mobs of cyclists on weekends who spill out and take up more than half the car lane anyway. Bikes need to gtfo back to the footpaths. They do NOT belong on roads.

because of the bikes lanes and shit i avoid the cbd as much as possible by car. but the biggest thing in killing the cbd was it became shit.

You're a legend mate! Keep up the good work.

I unfortunately had to drive to at kilda road the other day, a whole lane gone and not a bike in sight. I found a park, did my business item, walked to a half empty pub, went home, not going back.

I'd give it a 2/10 TBH. To me 5/10 would be metal bollards protecting both locations. 10/10 would be to fully separate the bike path with both a curb and hip high physical and shrub barrier - maybe move the one at location 3 behind the tree so it acts as extra protection, and have the intersections raised to pedestrian level at the ped / bike crossing.

I think your video answers 1 very important question about the bike lanes. WHY DO WE NEED THEM ? a 7 minute video about bike lanes and NOT ONE PERSON USING THEM, we get 1 stock photo of bike users and 4 cyclists at 3:42 who aren't using the lanes. stop going to Geelong council meeting and wasting their time and taxpayers money. NO ONE WANTS OR USES THE BIKE LANES YOUR PROVIDING THE PROOF !!!

The ONLY thing that will get their attention and change their behaviour is having to fix their cars. Jersey barriers and other tall concrete blocks will solve the problem ($$$).

5:35, to be clear, i am a cyclist and i advocate heavily for protected lanes, but they may have not put them up all the way to the intersection for trucks making difficult turns? (Unless there are already truck restrictions) They should still have installed some form of cyclist protection/something to disincentivise parking there other than paint and it being illegal. maybe some armadillos (like 6:36?) or a short mountable curb, so trucks could still pass over? They did something very similar here in my city, where the curb protecting cyclists drops down to a rumble strip so that trucks have the clearance to perform their turns, while the rumble strip still prevents drivers from cutting the corner, or parking in the bike lane. props to you for showing up and advocating for cyclists where you live, cheers from canada, i hope you can get more protected bike lanes! p.s. happy to be your 999th subscriber :)

Wow, positive response from the authorities. Congrats, it looks like you will break 1,000 subscribers soon.

Doing the lords work brother. You just got a new subscriber

thank you for your tireless effort against these tyrannical car brained fools

7:21 it is interesting that the TAC can pay for 6month motel accommodation for a client while bathroom renovations are undertaken in their home. Would it not be more economical to have safe bike lanes to prevent injury than pay after the event. Hope there is not a conflict of intent......

Why do municipalities hate free money so much? This is a problem I see in my country as well, municipalities just really seem to hate actually enforcing parking rules with tickets, I just dont get why they cant do enforcement, I think a lot of problems could be solved without any physical infrastructure, just by actually enforcing the rules and getting free ticket money.

You beat me to it with the phrase "half arsed" It looks simply like a box ticking exercise for COGG to say that they are addressing the needs of bicycle users, without actually doing too much about it. I'd suggest everyone takes a close look at their council candidates when voting this week.

Good work.. That's a good point about how these people would view the issue of safety at work, but no concern about where they park..

This is Australia, it's not CROW manual/international best practises, so it's necessarily quarter-arsed.

your video is dumb and not right. Before any bike lanes were added over 90% of Geelong CBD parking was angled parking not parallel and 2 lane roads. then they added the first round of bike lanes(which was proven no one used). This is when people claimed the blke lanes will be the cause of the CBDs demise, at this time there was barely any empty shops in Geelong. to add this first round of bike lanes is when they halved the amount of parks available when switching from angled to parallel. this also caused the Westfield in Geelong which was free parking for the 1st 2hrs to become the ONLY Westfield in Australia which charges for parking. From then on its been a slow death for Geelong with a corrupt council doubling down on dumb ideas and implementing (at taxpayers expense) all the alterations of moving and adjusting bike lanes to cater for you and about 100 others that will use the system out of 250,000+ population of GGelong

Good to see action did get taken at least, I've had MANY experiences of just being ignored by council. I reckon those regulars to those "parking spots" should have a bike lock locked through their wheel, like a wheel boot, that'd get the message across.

Your videos are fantastic. I would love to try and connect over email as my family begins the moving process. We are heading to Geelong in March and getting a sense of whats happening there is a huge benefit.

"I don't think anyone would argue that all cars should be banned from the CBD" I mean...I would make that argument, while understanding how infeasible it would be.

They can use cameras / induction loop to detect bikes approaching light controlled crossings and triggering them so the bike doesn't have to stop. Though I think they should just put a train back in again - or put in a tram.

6:08 As far as I am concerned every single every single learner driver in Australia should be taught the “Dutch Reach” way of opening their car door. It was drummed into me as a learner some 40+ years ago, and I literally could not count the number of times I have paused to allow a rider to pass after seeing them as I go to open my door.

The main problem with the northern Gheringhap street part is they put several car parks in and removed a lane when it should just be two lanes and the bike lanes, forcing people to merge into one lane for less than 100m just to split back out for the intersection seems needlessly dangerous. Everything else is fine.

It's literally the exact same with the Adelaide City Council at the moment The ACC canned the only east - west bike link in adelaide city because they would lose 18 paid car parks even though they own all the multi story car parks in the city

Good work mate. If only more of geelong could see this

Thanks for your work mate

I have a bike lane near me in Fitzroy St St Kilda. I even saw a bike in it this week. I only mention it because it’s so unusual. Been there basically unused for 30 years.