Fremantle traffic bridge detour signal problem

Подписаться 427

50% 1

Why are the detours around the Fremantle traffic bridge work sites so awful for cyclists? Possibly because no one from the project is bothering to test them out on a regular basis. If they were, they surely would have noticed that one of the pedestrian/cyclist lanterns at the corner of Beach St and Queen Victoria St is facing the wrong way - it's been rotated 90 degrees. This is very obvious if you want to cross the street from the south, but it's been like that for months.
This is a small thing, but it shows why someone from the project needs to be undertaking regular quality and compliance checks on the detours setup for pedestrians and cyclists.

Опубликовано:

3 окт 2024

Ссылка:

Скачать:

Готовим ссылку...

Добавить в:

Мой плейлист

Посмотреть позже

Комментарии : 11

@ACDZ123 7 дней назад

🤦‍♂️

@peterlindsay8235 7 дней назад

Its possible that the signal has been moved by a member of the public. There are quite a number of potential candidates domiciled in Fremantle

@baybugcanadabaybicycleuser915 6 дней назад

Agreed. But even if that was the case, it should have been picked up on a daily or weekly inspection of the detour route by someone from the project team. Clearly, such inspections aren't happening - or they aren't being done very well. The point is that they need to start doing regular inspections and doing them properly.

@MiniLuv-1984 7 дней назад

This shit happens! Bloody hell. I was thinking, would there be any value in sending you videos of this kind of carelessness from all over the country? Airing dirty laundry in the hope that shaming the authorities into caring and correcting?

@baybugcanadabaybicycleuser915 7 дней назад

I want the site safety manager to check the detours on a regular basis. They're really terrible, and they need improving. This clearly shows no one is bothering to do checks on a regular basis - if at all.

@illiiilli24601 7 дней назад

I wonder how many people the people involved in the design and implementation of these actually use the infrastructure they design and/or build

@MiniLuv-1984 7 дней назад

zero.

@baybugcanadabaybicycleuser915 6 дней назад

I know that with the Causeway Bridge project, there is at least one person on the project who cycles - and that is the reason why the detours around that project have been first class. If the detours are terrible, it means no one from the project team is walking or cycling around the site.

@tedsmith6137 3 дня назад

What is wrong with ringing them and telling them the issue? Easy to do. It was possibly clipped by a truck, since it is on a bracket that acts as a pivot.

@baybugcanadabaybicycleuser915 3 дня назад

I sent them an email - they fixed it the next day. It may well have been clipped by a truck (but if that was the case, it might have been dented or twisted in the process of being swiveled around. I've hit things with trucks, and some damage usually results). But the point here is that if regular checks or inspections were being carried out along the detour route, this would have been detected and fixed immediately. Instead, it's been like this for 2 months or longer. That's entirely on the bridge project team and the people doing the traffic management.

@baybugcanadabaybicycleuser915 3 дня назад

PS - I've learned that you never, ever call a road authority. You always put your issue in writing. I've had too many instances of phoning in and having my issue mysteriously fail to be logged into the system. They can't deny the issue if it's in writing and there is a video showing the problem.