Around 60 per cent of Victorians are interested in cycling as a form of transport but are afraid to ride alongside motor vehicle traffic, and separated bike lanes aren’t keeping up.
A failure to make key cycling routes safer is stopping Melburnians from choosing bikes as an alternative to cars for short trips around town, according to the state’s peak motoring body.
The motoring group surveyed 5000 Melburnians earlier this year about road safety concerns and found four of the city’s worst spots were on the cycling corridor network: Barkly and Hopkins streets in Footscray; theat the end of Royal Parade; the Bay Street/Liardet Street intersection in Port Melbourne, and St Kilda Road.
Lewis said cycling meant she and her husband could avoid the cost of buying and running a second car. Bicycle Network CEO Alison McCormack said that although it was encouraging that parts of the long-awaited St Kilda Road bike lane were recently opened, there was no clear plan for what would be built next.
“Workers are fed up because it’s becoming more and more dangerous to carry out their work,” he said. “If you are going to install them, do it with a common-sense approach.” “We know that delivering a safer, better-connected active transport network is key to encouraging more people to ride a bike,” they said.
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