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At Sono Lumo, bike riders were asked to dismount for 100m. Now they plan to protest in the Star casino’s driveway (www.brisbanetimes.com.au)

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[+] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

That waterfront property is the bikeway. That's the problem: that they asked to, and the government let them, turn our most important bikeway into a square where people are likely to hang out. The equivalent of taking Coronation Drive and "activating" it by putting public markets on in it.

Unless you mean somewhere else, in which case I'm not sure.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Or say, the equivalent of taking a dedicated bike path along the front of the river near the old Howard Smith wharves, and turning them in to a shared space, where cars, bikes and pedestrians all mingle around children and drunk folk

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hehehe. Yeah. QW doesn't even have the excuse of maybe possibly not being able to know what would happen, because we can point directly to the mess that HSW has been to prove why this design of QW was always going to be bad.

At least it sounds like BCC might be about to force HSW to fix that mess.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

At least it sounds like BCC might be about to force HSW to fix that mess.

They are? Did I miss some news?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yup! Facebook link.

Text from CBD BUG:

Howard Smith, Possible good news!

In September Howard Smith Wharves submitted new plans to Brisbane City Council to change/increase the size of the buildings inside of the site. Despite the existing shared use Riverwalk path through the site being a source of conflict & confusion between people on foot and wheels HSW did not propose to improve the situation. It appears BCC has listened to the public submissions and is requesting the sub-standard shared use path be upgraded to a best practice segregated path in line with Transport and Main Roads Queensland/ Austroads guidelines. If HSW accepts the request and BCC does not back down this will be a huge improvement to this cycling corridor. While shared paths are great for low use paths they are terrible for high use paths being filled with stress resulting in an unpleasant environment for those on foot or wheels.

All those years back when HSW was first proposed BCC wanted the now current path to be segregated but HSW's refused. Lets hope this time BCC sticks to its guns and ensures Brisbane residents are delivered best practice not another sub-standard outcome!

It's not guaranteed, but it's a good step in the right direction.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I see "asked to" in the title. Why is the response not "no way, get fucked, fuck off"?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

There were gates put in place and bouncers to prevent people from riding straight through. You could still get off your bike, walk past the bouncer, and then ride to the next gate, which plenty of cyclists were doing.

Personally one of the issues is the casino bouncers doing traffic control. Even as a compliant citizen I have been berated and harassed by bouncers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

It's so frustrating, but not at all surprising. The terrible design ruining the bikeway was predicted to cause problems back when the then-Labor state government (side note: many in the BT comments are blaming BCC for this. Unfortunately, as bad as BCC are, this particular problem is not their fault.) allowed Star to design it that way. Their shitty temporary design during the building of their mega-casino got a pedestrian killed, and now they're wanting to do the equivalent of shutting down Coronation Drive or Gympie Rd for 7 hours a day starting right before peak hour, every day for nearly 2 weeks.