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The 'story' in a nutshell. Rich old white man yells at clouds.

The only thing tha will fix traffic and commute times is...less cars. That means better PT, better active transport options, and arguably with a government that is happy to leave people behind...a cheaper (or free) option. It's so crazy that people lack the criticial thinking capabilities to be so enamoured with the current way of living and moving in society. Where commutes can be 2-3hrs form the outskirts of a city, at a time in society when we've got the most people working from home as we ever have (covid excluded but then most people weren't really working either then). As for rights. lol...eh. It's so stupid that it doesn't even require a response. Great, civil, well laid out, vid!

I’ve seen concern from a bus driver about the leap frogging with cyclists on Oxford st. I’m sure the bus drivers will appreciate the separation

it's Gadigal avenue, not Gadigal street. I can't even google gadigal street.

I like to see you guys go and stir up the Campbelltown Shire Council, from what I can see, they don't even have a cycling strategy.....ever!!

Excellent video ChrisTopher, Sydney has come a long way since the dark days of Duncan Gay and the bicycle commute is so much easier and safer than ever. I was one of the Bus drivers that drove down Oxford Street and I'm also a cyclist, so I do keep the 1 M rule and Oxford street was atrocious, I've taken off a few car doors with the bus as well when they were swung in my path. I'm not doing that job anymore as I'm retired but am looking forward to when that bikeway is completed so I can bring my bike up and ride it. I'm not currently living in Sydney but i regard it as my City and thanks to you and Sheriff, I'm keeping up with what's happening there.

If you're interested in doing a story on what's happening with the Sydney Harbour Bridge ramp, feel free to reach out. It's even bigger than Oxford Street.

ps. this is my new character now sorry. I have given up and resorted to shitposting out of desparation. apologies

Yes, it would actually be safer for blind people to cross traffic lanes after getting off the bus because they can hear the cars coming, bikes dont make noise which makes them dangerous.

Thanks for the video, Chris - nice work. I'm a non-cycling, pro-cycleway Paddington resident (I provided feedback a couple of weeks ago). The anti-cycleway campaign manages to be simultaneously pathetically predictable, maddening and hilarious. In theory the campaign should be a stroad wedge - Paddington residents really should be behind the cycleway (make Oxford St less of a car sewer) with the transiting drivers from Bondi, Waverley, Bronte being against - but I don't see it breaking that way.

My job is literally to advocate about disability rights and call out discrimination. This is NOT discrimination, and is by far one of the worst claims of discrimination ever! The Oxford Street Cycleway will help people with a disability. Improved pathways, improved access to public transport, less reliant upon cars. And even if you do need someone to drive you because of your disability, it will benefit you with less people using the road! I have seen the project and the work that they’ve been doing, and I don’t just have no concerns about it. I think it will make the whole community more accessible! Well done on talking about this, Chris!

Let's face it, the safety of the elderly & disabled is just an excuse. I'd put money this is either just a bunch of old NIMBYs or are a front for someone else who doesn't want the cycleway there; maybe retailers or developers. Was this a clearway previously or was there on street parking?

Oh boy Chris - I have been waiting the whole time since the article came out for your video about it! Oxford St is such a shithole at the moment just like Parramatta Road it needs a total rethink and cycling is one of if not the key element in that transformation alongside reducing car movements, more greenery and improving public transport in the corridor. I think Oxford St would be significantly improved if you just extended the T4 from Bondi Junction to Bondi Beach and then reduced the space for cars, but I also just hope both roads if they ever get light rail would get green grass track that would be such a massive upgrade. Just on the video itself, do these people complaining not know that cycling infrastructure is extremely useful for people with disabilities for goodness sake? Go to Copenhagen or Utrecht and you will see HUNDREDS of people with all types of disability issues riding all types of vehicles.

The first half of this video I was all ready to come down here and tell you all about the NFBUK and their bizarre crusade against floating bus stops, but it turns out I don't need to. Their bizarre crusade is inspiring bizarre crusades in Australia. The sensible part of their complaint is that for blind people, if even 1% of cyclists do not stop at those pedestrian crossings on to the bus stop island then it is nerve-wracking every time for them to cross. The fear of collision the greater problem than any actual collisions. The less sensible part of their complaint is that the only solution they have presented for this problem is abandoning bus stop bypasses altogether and throwing cyclists under the bus. (Not a metaphor) I can think of two ways to solve this problem off the top of my head, one is a campaign (education and enforcement) to improve cyclist behaviour, the other is a tiny boom gate like at rail level crossings that can be activated by anyone who needs it. We also have a couple of traffic lights on CS3 along the Embankment which could potentially work. The infrastructure ideas might feel a bit like over-engineering for what is a tiny problem but it's not like they need to be all that complicated or expensive and it will certainly make these groups feel like they are not being dismissed and ignored. There are also some bus stop / cycleway designs that should be abandoned, such as the "bus stop boarder" which is that one where the cycleway goes between the shelter and the bus. I think the intention is that cyclists should stop and wait whenever there is a bus at the stop, but I can't even confirm for sure that that is the intention so anyone cycling along the cycleway would have no idea at all. If cyclists are expected to stop for every bus it fails at the goal of making cycling convenient and attractive. Just stop building them and use one of the better designs.

“The more I thought about it the more conspiracy theories I came up with…”

Most Pedestrians dont look where they are going. Evidence in the Vidios.

Completely agree especially about the suspicions that complaints like this are disingenuous, but (you knew there would would be abut) the UK evidence shows that the issues around island busstops are not trivial, especially for disabled and need to be taken seriously. As you say design is very important and while Oxford St might have high standards, there is a real risk that some councils might do it on the cheap and TfNSW needs to ensure standards are set and adhered to. Education/expectations are always important; a key difference between the UK ( and Australia) and e.g. Netherlands is that people getting off a bus don't expect to encounter bikes.

Wtaf, you can't be to hard on the Nimby ba$tard$

So a bike lane that mobility scooters and such things can use, is discriminating against disabled and elderly people, but a road, where you need to be rather able bodied to drive, is not? Got it!

Petition for Chris Topher to make a video on Wallerawang train station

Imma lodge a human rights complaint about roads.

hmmm nice design better than some of the paths we have in Auckland New Zealand

When you were mentioning the bus Islands, I’m not sure what you’re talking about, so photo of one would help. And mentioning particular stops where you checked the crash data I would like to have seen photos of those as well just out of curiosity.

Chris, have you ever ridden a tricycle? They are far from stable, particularly in turns, they’re very easy to roll. Since they don’t lean in turns, they want to lift the inside rear wheel. Ones with two front wheels instead tend to be a lot more stable but don’t seem to be as common. Not disputing the rest of this, but this stuck out to me as something ai would not be encouraging aging people to take up.

Woaaaa I was just looking for information about the Canberra metro, but this was very highly researched and very argumentative! I love it! Keep it up!

Who ever thought a level crossing on Parramatta Road was a good idea? I am old enough to recall riding on a tram from Central Station to Botany where we lived. A lot of people forget that removing the Tram system was very popular amongst motorists but times have changed.

Thanks for laying out and describing this map. The cycleways situation in Sydney seems to be much better now than ever and hopefully would continue to improve further. I think one piece of infrastructure that's often still lacking in Sydney is bike racks. It's not uncommon that I'd be arriving at some commercial area and found no good place to lock my bike, or there may be some bike parking near the train station but the station is rather far from where I actually want to go. Bike racks should be a common feature in every entry points to public pedestrian plaza/outdoor malls. It always feel dirty to lock your bike to some random fences, poles, or other infrastructures that aren't properly designated as bike parking area.

Omg they finally got Oxford Street?! I was inspired to first start cycling 9 years ago while I was waiting on Oxford St for a bus to finally stop and let me squeeze on. There was an endless stream of cyclists going by and I realised I was spending longer waiting for a bus than it would take me to just ride home! The Flinders St/Oxford st part was a nightmare though, so many cyclists, so little infra, many near misses and witnessed accidents.😬 Stoked to hear it’s being partially fixed even though that’s not been my commute for a long time.

Great video! Is there a plan for Greater Sydney - is there a plan to connect Penrith to Paramatta, Richmond, Cambelltown, Liverpool and Sydney CBD? Has the Liberal/Labor Teams any plans to help connect Sydney by bike 🚲?

Great work Chris. having grown up in Sydney, now 45, I've seen a lot change and it's so nice to see regular people riding everywhere everyday. As well as more MAMILs and the food delivery folks. E-bikes have helped mums and dads with the new fangled cargo bikes...this all means quieter, safer streets where everyone has various options to get around as part of a transport mix...

Clover Moore has buggared up a lot of parking for very few bikes!

Great vid!

Great video.. I actually did a progress update video last Friday on Oxford street, Liverpool and Castlereagh streets.

I'm delighted to see that cycling is slowly conquering the place it deserves in Sydney's streets. I expect that you will see a significant rise in cycling popularity once all these separate routes are linked together in a network.

I’m glad you covered the Bridge rd failure, but there’s some additional contention among cyclists about the Wilson st way, given how low and slow car traffic is due partly to the multiple roundabouts. From my perspective, moreso than we need cycleways, we need lower speeds for drivers and wider, more accessible footpaths

You have a typo in the thumbnail mate - "bult"

I'd love to know more about the history of the Alexandria canal cycle way. From the sections along the canal which end suddenly at Shea's creek and the path under the Campbell St bridge, I assume there was some plan to build a path connecting with the coward st path but I can't find a thing about it online. If there's a video in that topic, I'd watch it.

There are a lot of cycleways these days. You can ride from Windsor to Cronulla and barely go on a road. Just a few back roads around Strathfield.

If only every single cycleway wasn’t a 2.4m or less two way one. Someone needs to present the concept of uni directional protected cycle lanes to whoever’s in charge.

Hey Topher, I really really really like this video an excellent way to exemplify what’s happened and what’s going to happen tip top stuff mate.

Amazing to think how well Sydney City is doing in comparison to Melbourne City … who just went backwards after 2020. Insane. They’re the only ones going backwards, of any major city in the world.

Impressive video - I love how the network is forming from scratch and it’s frankly equivalent to the road network barely 100 years ago - see the history of the Lincoln Highway and how country roads simply didn’t join up. Drivers wouldn’t put up with dead ends today and cyclists shouldn’t either. Something really took off around 2009-10 when I noticed all the cycling paths in Olympic Park were turned into “official” paths with lane marking like the rest of Sydney started to do. At 6:27 the George St path shows an important error - you can’t and shouldn’t cycle through Waterloo Estate. The signs there ask you nicely and properly to please not do that. The cycleway signs even direct you around the western side too - and you have to negotiate some tricky road closures of Waterloo Metro construction lately. Is the new College Street path the same as the old one? I think the Bourke St / Bourke Road path is entirely contiguous (if not perfectly formed) and for a decade now, on my adventures I’ve been cycling from the city to Woollomooloo to begin the epic journey south … using Bourke Street to begin, I head towards the airport, give up at Tempe if I run out of energy, or continue under the M5 and around the golf course to Kyeemagh, then one straight path all the way along Botany Bay to Sans Souci and the Captain Cook Bridge. Recently the Sutherland Shire have FINALLY finished the cycleway north of Captain Cook Drive, and you can continue easily all the way to Cronulla along the beach. This lets you join the train network for an easy return journey. If you add that to a Manly Ferry trip, you can combine it with the Manly-to-Mona-Vale cycle path and do the entire Sydney coast, more or less.

Very well researched, thank!. These are the road cycleways, the shared pedestrian area around Barangaroo, Pyrmont opened around this time too.

Unfortunately many of the cycle ways that IW Council have created are not used, and cyclists are on narrow footpaths hazarding pedestrians, even on local roads with little car traffic.

Thank you for recognising that the Bridge Rd / Pyrmont Bridge Rd pop-up cycle way in Forest Lodge / Glebe is dangerous. Locals have been pushing for this to move to the quieter and wider St John’s Rd but the council prefers to pit pedestrians, cyclists, buses and cars against each other.

Absolutely fantastic video! Thank you. It would be great to see similar videos for other council areas. Hopefully it would prompt other councils to expand on the great work City of Sydney has been doing. For one I find North Sydney could do a lot better.

Whilst this is great, it honestly feels like council is doing it alone which they shouldn't have to. Other nearby council areas have little to no cycling infrastructure which makes those just outside the council area forced into cars or buses. Whilst there are some great pieces of infrastructure outside of the city (Northern Road, Parramatta River & M7 links) the state government should be trying to support councils within Sydney to provide a city wide cycling network. No one will ever commute Penrith to Sydney CBD via bicycle but they might commute Oxley Park to Blacktown, Greystanes to Parramatta or Lindfield to North Ryde. But these types of commutes are impossible Canberra has an awesome shared path network. There are practically no cycleways but this is rarely an issue due to the lower population numbers. The same approach would work completely fine across most of Sydney with only major centres like CBD, Parramatta and North Sydney requiring cycleways to separate pedestrians from cyclists