South East Bikeway

As I commented yesterday there is only two Active Transport arterials in Brisbane.  The same bloke that did the count for the Bicentennial went out and did a count on the South East Bikeway this morning, figures can be seen below.

Unlike the Bicentennial Bikeway, the South East Bikeway is not dual mode, it is a bike only bikeway. While there are sections where it is shared these are the old non arterial parts of the bikeway that will eventually be bypassed with new high quality sections. This of course has it's good and bad sides. The main bad side to this is because pedestrians can not access it people have a poor understanding of the corridor ( that is of course if they do not get on a bike) Also because the corridor has no pedestrians on it, it get next to no media attention. This is ofcourse a good and a bad thing.

Currently the non arterial parts of the bikeway are planned to be replaced with High Quality bypasses. I will talk more about them in later postings.

The figures from this morning are quite interesting. First of all the figure for women is still well below the figure for men  at 4 to 1. The other fact that is quite interesting is that road bikes are out numbered 2 to 1 by other bikes. This is a swap compared with the Bicentennial where the road bikes made the majority. The later can be put down to two things in my mind.
1st- the South East is more a commuter path and lacking in views
2nd - many parts are still very rough and narrow not leanding themselves to bunch riding with road bikes

South East Bikeway Count 20120105

Time = 7:25-8:05am

Total = 185

Sex

Male = 148.5** (80%)

Female = 36.5** (20%)

Bike Type

Road = 65 (35%)

Other* = 120 (65%)

Bike per Sex

Male Road = 53 (36%)

Male Other* = 95.5 (64%)

Female Road = 12 (33%)

Female Other* = 24.5 (67%)

* = any bike that is not fitted with drop bar Handle Bars

.5**= indicates a tandem bike with both a male and female riding it

General Note

-                     Not all bikes passing were able to be counted

-                     This count did not include pedestrians as they are not permitted on the bikeway

-                     This count includes cyclists going both North and South

-                     Due to this count beginning 10minutes later then the Bicentennial count the figures can not be directly compared.

-                     This count was conducted under the

Vulture St

overpass

-                     The weather was overcast with drizzle and moderate temperature but high humidity