Berowra New Bike Lane Study : The Chaos Has Begun : Transport For NSW Feedback

Lets keep the comments focused on what's seen and said in the video. Please don't start Cyclists Vs Cars comment fights. We need to act like adults here because people far smarter than us who installed this Cycleway will be carefully reading every comment. THIS IS A VERY SERIOUS VIDEO RELATED TO ROAD SAFETY. We will get back to silly stuff next video. And please let's never forget Teddy 😿

I cycle a bit but mainly on bike tracks (avoid roads) - It's nice when they make a track that doesn't join on the road - which they totally could have done here, those nature strips are huge! Makes it safer for cyclists and keeps them off the road, ah well

I just cant understand why they didn't take a page out of Melbourne's book and put the bike lane on the median strip its safer for both parties yes its more expensive but the pros greatly outweigh the cons

Bike lanes are important and we should build them. Shame we can't design them safely it seems.

You never stop making these videos Leo they’re too funny, especially the pool tracks that you did many years ago I loved those videos

We’ve had these new bike lanes pop up in our community in California. I’m a driver. I’ve seen the same issue with cars not following the markings on the road making it unsafe for all. At the same time these strange configurations of green lanes just appear and it isn’t always clear what a driver should do. Common sense isn’t always used.

Same issue back here in Virginia. All these cycling lanes have been an exercise in how little effort can be put into something. A couple of lines were painted, the speed limit reduced by 10 mph (16.1 kph), and the bikes still ride mainly in the sidewalk, with pedestrians sprinkled throughout the bike lane and sometimes in the road! It seems that it is no longer about doing things right, but getting things done for cheap, before lunch.

The idea of having a way to travel around town by bicycle, in my humble opinion, is a good one, the way that its done is absolutely stupid. I live in Patras Greece, the mayor of the town decided to "improve" the city centre by adding a bike lane on one of the main roads, a 3 lane road that always has lots of traffic, one lane is taken by parked cars and now one for bicycles. As you can possibly imagine, this has caused the road to have even more traffic, do go through the city centre used to take about 5 minutes (Patras is a small city) now it can take up to 30 minutes. The funny thing is that there are barely any cyclists so the pedestrians are the ones that actually use the lane.

I like how this video didn't take a purely pro bike or pro car look at the problem. I think if we are to invest in more multi modal transportation, it should be done will full effort and safety in mind. I also couldn't help but notice that some of the areas along the cycle lane don't even have sidewalks. It's baffling to me that this area that could certainly use them, has sparse sidewalk coverage from what i can see. Good video.

I see them doing this a bit where I live. They take away a lane from a busy road to give it to bikes, and then traffic gets way worse for it. I was biking the other day and a new bike lane had appeared, but it ends abruptly in the middle of the road... luckily I had turned off before that point, but it's so strange to see how cities fumble their way through bike infrastructure.

whatever happened to bike paths?

I'd love to see a transport-oriented channel analyze this. Someone like Taitset, or something.

A lot could be done with what is being taught at school, maybe road engineers are taught road infrastructure from the 60s.

Leo - Ive seen your comment a lot on a lot of music related videos, and you seem to be very knowledgeable on older bands. Have you ever considered making music related content?

I'm amazed at how many riders still don't have bright & flashing tail lights

I live in an area that keeps bike lanes on a (wide) pedestrian focused median, far away from any cars, but in a situation like this i feel like keeping cyclists on the inner lane instead of the outer lane would be the better idea, since they can just go on the sidewalk if they are ever to need to go into a street, as on the other end, cars can't magically u-turn at the next stoplight and just drive on the sidewalk to avoid going over the bike lane ever.. just my thoughts tbh, i dont know about the practicality of it

This was interesting compared to the cycle lanes in America. Especially in places like New York

The bike lane was a good idea on paper but it was poorly executed. I think the bike lane is a bit too wide compared to what i see around in Canada.

In HK we basically don't have "bike lanes", bikes are expected to ride with traffic on the road and the rules beyond that are very limited. I used to ride a bicycle around the area I live in but now that I'm not longer in my 20's I have decided that I'd rather not die young because I've been flattened by a double decker😂. I wish I could give some actual contribution to the discussion beyond that, however I don't feel qualified on the topic. Thank goodness I can just rely on public transit here and never have to worry about navigating the confusing roads that make up this city!

I can't publicly state my honest feelings about TfNSW - but this is typical. If they wanted to do a cycle way, it should have been a totally seperate lane (with a barrier), these are bad for drivers and bad for cyclists for the reasons you have outlined. Epic fail