This Weeks' Edition of Only in Victoria
Bike lanes rolled out for the climate emergency
The City of Melbourne is fast tracking the creation of bike lanes in order to “tackle the nation’s climate emergency”.
The council voted this week to bring forward the creation of 44km of bike lanes to help achieve its 2040 zero emissions target.
The plan requires some road lanes currently used by cars to be taken over by bikes. This will, of course, cause greater congestion throughout the city.
Whatever reduction in emissions the council achieves, as drivers switch to push bikes, will be lost as roads are transformed into giant carparks where vehicles sit idling.
The plan will make what was once the World’s Most Liveable City into even more of a hell hole than it currently is, while making zero difference to the climate.
Only in Victoria.
This is a classic case of idiocy compounded by stupidity.
Just shut down the whole silly project and start returning the city streets to the useful system it once was.
As an avid cyclist, it drives me mad to see this insane push to turn our once useable road network into a series of seldom used bike paths. If people are truly committed to riding a bike everywhere, for whatever reason, the current roads work perfectly fine. I should know, I've been using them for over 50 years as a cyclist without any problems.
The idea that cyclists need to remove cars in order to ride on public roads reveals more about their lack of skill and confidence to ride in traffic than it does about a lack of safe spaces for cyclists. But of course, when it's an ideological push, you don't need a rational argument to justify millions being spent on such monuments to one's worldview.
Absolutely. I guess older people aren’t welcome e in the CBD anymore. Well we have taken Sydney off our go to list. Melbourne is next. Sydney CBD is pretty much a dump and clogged with bike lanes and light rail now Melbourne- not a good time to be growing older. I would add disabled people will be disadvantaged by these idiotic moves.