Just on 10 Months since the all important former Floating Walkway floated walkway floated away down the river the replacement has been announced. It seams amazing how reluctant the Council is to build it even though State & fedreal are paying for it's replacement.
The structure they have chosen I have to say was not my perfered option but it did come in second in my vote. There were five options put to the public and in tipical government fashion now the perfered has been chosen the old ones have been pulled down from the website.http://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/traffic-transport/major-infrastructure-transport-projects/bikeway-and-pathway-projects/Riverwalk-replacement/index.htm
As par usual the Courier Trash (mail) has allowed every anti-riverwalk comment to be posted. But then again what else would a that paper do but to say walking & cycling is waste of money, when they can't get the name of a train right (when it is written on the side in a phote they published)
So what has been chosen, well a fixed, segragated structure that will stand above the king tide line. This is vey important as the old one was shared and I can tell you at some times when I used it I wanted to strangle people they were to rude or igroant to keep to one side. What is most frustrating is the fact that council will not being building the replacement until 2013 and HOPEFULLY finished by 2014. Ofcourse they could be doing that so in the upcoming election they could bring it forwards and say "we are fasttracking it."
Sunday 13 November 2011
Tuesday 1 November 2011
Ivory Lane Path Closure
As what is quite usual in Brisbane an important path is closed with little notice and no explanation of when it will reopen. The closure occurred last week but it has taken until this week for something to be posted up on the Council website to explain what has happened.
http://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/traffic-transport/cycling/bikeway-closures-detours/index.htm
The first organisation to post something on the net was the Brisbane CBD BUG (Bicycle User Group). This seams to of happened within hours of it being closed. Not bad for a group of Volunteers that is made up of full time CBD workers. This was further followed up with photos and a media release a few days later. However like I said it seams to have taken the BCC until the next week for there website to be updated with the closure.
The Ivory Lane Path has become extremely important since the destruction of the former floating walkway. While the path is by no means carrying as many people as the former walkway it has been a lifeblood for those that have been willing to climb up to the path to escape having to deal with the traffic of the Valley. It can only be hoped that the path will be opened within weeks so that New Farm will have some kind of link with the CBD once again.
http://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/traffic-transport/cycling/bikeway-closures-detours/index.htm
The first organisation to post something on the net was the Brisbane CBD BUG (Bicycle User Group). This seams to of happened within hours of it being closed. Not bad for a group of Volunteers that is made up of full time CBD workers. This was further followed up with photos and a media release a few days later. However like I said it seams to have taken the BCC until the next week for there website to be updated with the closure.
The Ivory Lane Path has become extremely important since the destruction of the former floating walkway. While the path is by no means carrying as many people as the former walkway it has been a lifeblood for those that have been willing to climb up to the path to escape having to deal with the traffic of the Valley. It can only be hoped that the path will be opened within weeks so that New Farm will have some kind of link with the CBD once again.
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