Plan aims to transform a city to be cycle friendly

By Letters to the Editor
Updated November 16 2017 - 11:30am, first published 9:49am

Transforming a city to be cycle friendly

Thank you to Alan of VicRoads for describing the whole scheme to me at the presentation. These proposals would transform cycling around the city into an encouraging means of access and through routes to the suburbs. Bicycles and motor vehicles would be separated as much as practically possible. As a driver, the system seems fine for me and requires only a few minor changes to habits. As a recreational cyclist, cruising dedicated bike lanes is a dream coming true. Just imagine rolling along the Sturt Street boulevarde beneath shady trees from Victoria Park right into the CBD, with no direct traffic and just a few road crossings, marvellous. Motorists will hardly see us. No more parked cars to avoid. No more car doors swinging open. A rail trail avoiding Howitt Street, and swanning along Grenville Street, great. I have requested VicRoads to make the link in Creswick Road to the bike path at Howitt Street with the Old Cemetery in connection with the Creswick road duplication. I do hope at least some of it comes true. In my lifetime.

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