It used to be such a nice view of the GG's

Mike Bessenger said :

Instead of wasting money here what they need to do it work out how to keep pedestrians to left and stop the walking 2+ abreast.

Quality troll, that. Well done.

It’ll get re-installed over at formerly Red Bridge.

It’s GONE, hopefully permanently. I wonder if it was removed tor restore the view, or for creating a completely unnecessary headon.

davo101 said :

Mike Bessenger said :

I’ve been cycling in Canberra daily for 15 years now and have never seen a car on the shared path.

So they work then?

They’ve only started putting them up over the last sixish years.

I’ve seen motorbikes and cars on bike paths, and called the police on both occasions. Nil response. Would I do it a third time? No.

Mike Bessenger said :

I’ve been cycling in Canberra daily for 15 years now and have never seen a car on the shared path.

So they work then?

milkman said :

I can’t but think that a lot of the ‘issues’ that motorists have with cyclists are very similar to the ‘issues’ that cyclists have with pedestrians.

Sorry cyclists, but riding as fast as you whereever you want really isn’t going to work out.

Simple. Separate cyclists from pedestrians/road traffic/everyone else.

This is what the Government did in a Southside location which caused (6 years ago) a serious accident involving myself on a mountain bike that clipped the side of the bar and wall (not going fast by the way) with me flying through the air landing on my Head and Chin (teeth were loose but saved), sucked out of a straw for 2 months with a fractured jaw that never got seen to at the hospital (most people watched and kept driving to their destinations on a Saturday morning) despite me walking out into the traffic concussed and blacking out.

I recall a long line of vehicles swerving around me. A few minutes later (after a car missed me, according to a guy on a bike who came along about 5 minutes later whom gave me first aid and called my Family to come and collect me (after I refused an ambo) out of all those vehicles who continued on their merry way to go shopping, a beautiful Nurse did slow down and asked if I required assistance while the guy on the bike was getting me to put my head between my legs.

I now “know” the shocking intense pain that cyclists and motorcylists endure with head injuries (the throbbing of one’s jaw up into their ears is the worst pain ever endured; Childbirth a breeze for 12 hours)!

Facial bruising and face covered with bitumen rash and sores for 2 months nothing in comparison to the jaw pain and blacking out over the next week LOL!

I never did get the guy’s contact details to thank him; anyway if he is reading; thank you most kindly and greatly; you did save my life.

Anyway, the accident reminded me to always assist every person (and I have been the first on to get help for 3 vehicles in Tuggeranong with injured people) I ever come across regardless of what I happen to have on my personal agenda at that time.

I can’t but think that a lot of the ‘issues’ that motorists have with cyclists are very similar to the ‘issues’ that cyclists have with pedestrians.

Sorry cyclists, but riding as fast as you whereever you want really isn’t going to work out.

These things are bloody dangerous because at certain times of the day if the sun is at the right angle you can easily not see them. Its like putting armco along a highway but at certain points curve it in and cut half the road off. Imagine how many car crashes you would have if you did that.