I'm like many people of my generation (Gen X) - rode a bike as a kid, but as a "rite of passage" became car dependent. That all changed a decade ago when I realised what a waste of time and money it was having a second car just to drive to the train station to get to work in Brisbane CBD. So I bought a bicycle and starting riding to work.
This channel is about highlighting the advances in infrastructure in Brisbane, and exploring the river city by bike. And yeah, sometimes there'll be some whinging about bad infrastructure and worse driving.
Good video. In Ireland when i'm on bike paths and there's no one around I'll happily cruise at 40kph+, which is easy to do in a velomobile. I love travelling at those speed sorts of speed. But if there's people about sharing the space, I'm slowing down and passing them carefully with a friendly hello and if there's small kids on bikes in the mix I'm slowing right down. They're generally thrilled to see a velomobile passing by anyway. Car free places should always be safe friendly places. I really hate the "fast and the furious" macho road culture perpetuated by certain drivers on the roads in Ireland, so I'll never allow myself to bring any of that same macho culture into places that should be people friendly.
Perhaps the level of traffic stress should be the other way round. A high score for low stress and a low score for high stress? That way a low stress bikeway gets a higher score than a high stress one.
This is great Chris, thanks for the work you did to produce it. Had no idea about the M7 stretch so I will have to give it a blast from Corinda, including an unfortunate crap stretch on Oxley Road 😂
Town planning is the hardest course in the world. No one has passed it yet. As an avid rider myself. If you ride on the road you are a fool. Get off road infrastructure that was designed in the 70s and expect to be safe. Riders like you give us all a bad name. I cycle 20 km a day and NEVER get on a road. North Brisbane. I can ride from Bracken Ridge to Redcliffe and back some 43 km without touching a road. Yet I see fools like you riding on the road with a bike path 2 metres away on Telegraph Rd. Over entitlement is a fool’s folly. Let me guess. You vote Labor or Greens.
you’re a grown adult acting like a kid who spat the dummy by repeating the same phrases “cope”. Firstly cyclists are often nothing more then self absorbed narcissists. Except for the “means of getting around/used to loose weight” those who treat it as a lifestyle and flaunt it as such aren’t heros or something even worth remarking on. Bikes on the road are a major safety concern especially when clueless cyclists exceed the 1-1.5 meters leniency they are given when sharing a roadway. Yet most of your groups break that rule. Secondly it’s not motorised, their aren’t insurances, licences and registration to do it. But impeding motorists by being a pest on a road way doesn’t make you brave it makes you despised and an example of what’s wrong with cyclists. I like to ride myself but I’d never do anything that harms myself or others.
who pays for the roads? i dont understand what is wrong with the existing pathways - could be better, pehaps a rego or some other fee... would take away mynegative feelings toward bike riders (on the roads).
Registration doesn't pay for all the new roads, like the $300m Centenary Bridge, $1bn Coomera Connector, or the $1bn+ "upgrades" on the M1. Why are they necessary anyway? What's wrong with the existing roads we have? Maybe if drivers paid the actual $7 billion a year Queensland spends on roads? That's about $5,000 each per year. Honestly mate...
Well yeah, if they put the kids who are walking or riding to school at risk, indeed how dare they... safe active travel infrastructure should always be preferenced over parking.
He is flying, and it’s fair that he turned considering how far ahead and faster he was going. But it’s also not safe in his position… going WAY too fast
What a worthless comment lol The video says BCC hasn’t delivered any bikeways, and your response is ‘bro that’s fine because they didn’t pay for any’ Yeah, that’s the point How dull do you have to be to think that makes sense, let alone think about it long enough to type it out can’t believe I share the same planet as people this dumb
No, it's a cycleway and pedestrian path - $52 million for a footpath from the private school to the train station would not be good use of taxpayer funding right?
It’s funny how we apparently need more cops to stop the youth crimewave but their all still too busy fining QLD’s poorest and most environmentally friendly citizens. I frequently ride my BMX around Brisbane but especially along the bikeways such as the Jim Soorley bikeway. Shared paths can be confusing for pedestrians who should really only be walking on the far left quarter of the pathway. Instead they usually take up half the path which is fine, but the problems occur when someone just starts swaying or walking on the right side without looking. They will act as if they were nearly hit and that it is in no way their fault. Honestly though, the vast majority of walkers and riders are doing a great job of treating one another with respect.
Couldn't find an email address, so I'm commenting here to get in touch. I've been getting a lot of updates from BCC about improvements to active transport infrastructure, so I thought around now may be a good time to chat about collaborating on a video on the topic (as I was hoping to years ago before the floods wiped out so much of the existing infrastructure). I'd really like to draw on your insight for a more balanced assessment of where things are ATM, and about plans for the future. My contact details are on the about tab of my channel. I hope to hear from you, and maybe we can arrange a chat over a coffee sometime to get the wheels rolling.
Hey, that does sound great. BCC is certainly happy to talk up the big projects they're working on, but are they having a real impact on expanding the cycling network, and enabling more people to get around actively? Questionable... and a question we can delve into.
I have ridden on the v1 veloway twice, once from brisbane all the way to gold coast, took several hours with stops in the middle, and a couple of bike pushing because I was exhausted pushing against headwind after yatala on gold coast highway, second time is from gold coast to brisbane also via v1 veloway, easier and faster since no headwind, finishing in a shorter time than the other way around. Gold coast bike infrastructure is much worse than brisbane though, with almost no dedicated bike lanes, and sharing road traffic is required
I love riding the shared paths here in Bristol UK. I'm super-cautious and respectful around pedestrians, and very tolerant of unleashed dogs, even when they stray into my path. I'm a 60 year old man on medication for my blood pressure, and find cycling much more pleasurable doing so with a smile on my face.
I ride this path from Darra through Edenbrook connection and Rocks Riverside at least once a month since a buddy of mine moved in at Jindalee. I love that they kept the cycle path open under the temporary buildings which I think should be standard but it a step in the right direction considering how car centric Bris is! Will the whole path be 5m and modal separated? It seems to get more narrow near the lights and I can’t imagine they make it wider after the fact.
This was actually so insightful, I lived in Germany for a year and honestly life was amazing just riding everywhere - you could go to the other side of town so easily and so many students would ride to school. Australias networks definitely shadow in comparison. I miss biking but living in north brisbane trying to get to the cbd for work makes it difficult as a commute option, even just riding to the local train station is so uncomfortable with 80km/h roads and you're forced to ride on the shoulders of the road. Thank you for this, if you ever do any north Brisbane routes I would definitely love to watch!!
2:48 - "Bike lanes will increase noise, congestion and undesirables in the community." Um, that's what motor vehicles do. My personal opinion is that if there are any objections to bike lanes on any particular road, then that road shouldn't be there either.
Keep up the great work you are doing with this channel. The spotlight on bike infrastructure issues, road-rules and car-centric-stupidity is very welcome in a world where people turn car-licence age and think they never need to do cardio-exercise ever again. We have created a few generations of weak, lazy, abusive and indifferent road users called motorists, that I like to call motorons.
The government needs to start treating car drivers how they actually should be treated.... as people heading for early cardiopulmonary issues brought on by a sedentary lifestyle. When car drivers start using the "bicycles... registration" argument I like to calmly suggest that their rego fees are being paid for the damage their heavier vehicles do to the roads and also to help pay medical expenses brought about by their years of sitting on their arses, allowing their waistlines to balloon, whilst they were hurling abuse at the people who did get off their arse to do something positive for personal fitness and the environment. These people have lost their decency, empathy, courtesy and fundamentally lost sight of reality. We need a re-education that addresses the "ok so now I have a car licence I never have to do exercise again and anyone/thing smaller than my vehicle automatically loses its right-of-way and general rights on the road". This is where we seem to have found ourselves.
They are the same all over. They aren't a place to ride fast or worry about Strava times. It does get frustrating when a group of pedestrians is spread out across the whole trail, but you know it is kind of hard for pedestrians to walk single-file and talk, so I see why they do it. It's much nicer walking side by side. You have to relax, go fast when there is a clear section, and be prepared to slow down when others are near.
Random musing reading some other comments, it's interesting there is focus on restricting the maximum speed of ebikes & scooters but not cars. I was reading overseas looking at technology even that automatically drops the speed of ebikes/scooters in school zones (obviously lower speed limits than we have). But that makes me think couldn't that technology be applied to cars then? (rather than focussing on driverless vehicles). Police wouldn't have to do high speed chases & we wouldn't have to worry about our car getting stolen if you could use your mobile to hit a button that starts slowing it down until it stops (that wouldn't be a joyride). Noting Campbell Newmans recent comments that most motorists follow the speed limit so shouldn't have to focus on speed cameras now - very sure not every car is doing 50 kph in my street. p.s. I do agree with the restriction on ebikes but I think 30 kph is fair like the UK are looking at. It's a good pace to commute with.
Nice video, & so true about the most vulnerable in society. Saw a comment recently that you can tell how good a city is for cycling if you see the youngest and oldest out riding. My dad's 80 now and can't walk but he rides an electric recumbent bike on the centenary bikeway - keeps him healthy. Without the path he wouldn't do it.
Hey, great video, as usual. For people who don't know the areas as intimately as you obviously do is there any chance of throwing thumbnail map on the video in a top corner? Openmaps one would be great. Thanks. Please keep up the stong cycle centric advocacy. The city unknowingly apprecicates it.
Sigh, if only. Since that video Brisbane City Council cancelled the project citing flood recovery costs, and have only just restarted it with a community working group, and a statement in the budget that they are "in early planning" for stage 5... unbelievable.
Thanks good video. Brizzy has come so far with the bike ways. Wasn’t so long ago we had none. Commuting from hill end to fortitude Valley in the 90s, I got hit five times in the space of two years, including leaving a body shaped dent in the side of a delivery van 😂
Same story here in Singapore. Our shared paths are 15kph or 20kph. While parks with bike lane are limited to 25kph. Once in awhile we have enforcement doing speed traps & educating cyclists. Cycling on the roads in Singapore is limited to 5 per grp (single file on single lane road). 10 per grp for 2 abreast riding on roads in same direction with more than single lane. Getting really strict here, may be due to the space limitations.
@@ChrisCoxCycling Usually big group of cyclists from the same cycling club (obvious from their team kit). Or it can be different individuals/groups bunched up together due to traffic light situations. Misunderstood as the cyclists are in the same group. The law/advisory is to have 30m/2-3 lamp posts gap on the road between each different riding groups & overtake when safe to do so.
Good question, and it's something I'll pay more attention to in future route reviews. Most of them are pretty good, but the ones that are shared paths along creeks, very rarely they're lit. More of them are getting done, but there's certainly some eerie bike paths at night.
Love this video! As a commuter from Chapel Hill, I would love to see cycle infrastructure improvement on Sylvan Road, Russell Terrace, and Jenkinson St.
