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The Alexandria Canal Path is slowly coming together.
More... http://alexcanal.com/
Imagine cutting half of the roadway and expecting no complaint from NRMA or Trucking Industry reps. Instead of picturing the economic value embedded in the tin box imagine the voting capacity embedded in the cycle path user - one vote one value.
Similarly, imagine if the M5 was suddenly truncated at Bexley North, and that volume of traffic expected to rat run through the back streets of Bexley, Earlwood, Undercliff, Turella, to rejoin Marsh St and East Botany Street. A cycle path was promised alongside the expanded Macarthur rail corridor, with the proviso it was constructed as an access path for rail maintenance vehicles...
Providing the link would encourage cyclists from the Premiers electorate into the Golden Crescent. A vision taken from the pages of Richard Florida's, Rise of the Creative Class (http://creativeclass.com/).
"...Florida's research of census and economic data, presented in works such as Cities and the Creative Class and The Rise of the Creative Class, as well as Bobos in Paradise, by David Brooks (whose "bobos" roughly correspond to Florida's creative class), have shown that cities which attract and retain the creative class prosper, while those that do not stagnate. This research has been gaining more and more traction among members of the business community, as well as among politicians and urban planners..." More... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_class
The issue with Coward Street has been brought to the attention of Botany Council and the RTA by a Massbug cyclist who regularly cycles from Summer Hill to Mascot to work at a multinational IT corporation. And whose building is located on the yet to be completed Alexandra Canal bike path. The riders' complaint is that B-Doubles are regularly crossing into the oncoming traffic lane and/or taking out the traffic signals as they attempt a tight 90% corner at Kent and Coward Streets. This has also been documented by relevant authorities who are loathe to do anything about the problem, let alone repair the bicycle path to make it a safer and more attractive option to cyclists, to encourage cyclists off a dangerous thoroughfare.
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