a concerned Port Phillip resident.

On my journey this morning, there has been a massive car accident involving these confusing and disastrous pop-up bike lanes at the corner of Marine Parade and Glen Huntly Road. Fortunately, nobody seemed to be badly injured, although an ambulance and fire truck attended the accident scene. It has not even been 6 months and the danger these road treatments are causing must be stopped.  THIS IS A FAILED TRIAL

Cars are turning in front of cyclists at Luna Park and causing many dangerous sudden stops, these bike lanes go against every principal we were told when learning to drive.  For example, the rules say don’t turn left from the middle of the road. 

 I read an article in the Age that the Traffix Group made some recommendations about the pop-up bike lanes including the separated bike lanes located on Marine Parade. They recommended the removal of these treatments.

Since I took photos of the incident this morning, I have learnt that Council voted to write to the Department of Transport to remove these dangerous bike lanes on Marine Parade. I hope that there are no more preventable accidents, and nobody is killed before these lanes are removed. 

These lanes are a massive waste of tax/rates money (approx. $4.9M) and the people pushing for them should volunteer for an hour at the food bank, that’s where I want my money to go. We should be helping disadvantaged people, not installing that are unnecessary or unsafe bike lanes that are used by very few cyclists.  Only 3-4% of road users are cyclists even cyclists don’t like the bike lanes. 

I think the city and inner city is overrun by anti-car ideology and a pipe dream of a utopia from fairy land but the reality on the ground is no one wants the disaster that places like Amsterdam have become, their city is dead and there is an undercurrent of good people in their suburbs suffering whilst the city tell them how progressive they are, they can’t afford food gas power and petrol.