Tom Andraszek
An example of #Unwalkable #GoldCoast, #Australia. I didn't plan my bike ride carefully enough yesterday. I looked at an old map and didn't see footpaths, but I assumed that part of a recent A$25 million redesign of M1 exit 57 in Oxenford was adding some pedestrian infrastructure. I was wrong. There is no way to walk from #Oxenford to #Helensvale here. There is no way to safely ride a bike either. Even the painted #bike lanes end. This is a people-hostile design in the middle of the city.
Aug 7, 2023 at 8:01pmWeb
Show threadMJAug 7, 2023
@tom_andraszek very interesting
Show threadjrobensAug 7, 2023
@tom_andraszek disappearing bike lanes. The ultimate in cycling nuisances
Show threadI can’t believe its not @twcauAug 7, 2023

@tom_andraszek Agree - that’s stroad levels of hostile design.

From looking at recent satellite maps, there is a way to walk between the two suburbs - but it’s an inconvenient and completely indirect path that takes you south along Siganto Dr, down to a pedestrian footbridge across the M1 to. the Old Pacific Highway.

I’m also betting the route isn’t signposted, either at the M1 Interchange, or Hope Island Dr/Old Pacific Motorway - meaning most pedestrians wouldn’t even know about it.

Show threadTom AndraszekAug 9, 2023
@twcau - checked it out today... pedestrian crossings are about 1.4 km apart, the south end is an overpass, the north end is an underpass, no signage, although locals must know, both are in poor shape, probably built when the M1 was built. Near the underpass the path is very bumpy because of tree roots.
Show threadI can’t believe its not @twcauAug 9, 2023

@tom_andraszek Good lord that is grim.

No road crossing where that path ends at the southern point - making it more hostile to everyone.

The lack of signage, eek. And that bikeway signage looks not to have been touched in years.

I’d be having a long and detailed conversation with one of my local MP’s electoral officers, and have them crack heads with both the Roads Minister and local council for some proper action.

Show threadEmpiricismAug 8, 2023

@tom_andraszek

Looks "crazy". Something like the car industry would design.

Show threadLord Gregory OperaAug 12, 2023
@tom_andraszek You’ve gotta walk back down to Warner Bros. Movie World, go *under* the M1 and then walk back up Siganto Drive to wherever you’re going… It’s only about 1.5KM to walk (in each direction) if you’re coming from that corner in Oxenford, but it is a bit of a dick around. Given how bad the traffic is in the *entire* area though (I live next to Dreamworld and work in Molendinar / Robina, so I see it every day), this intersection is the least of our concerns.
Show threadpedro. 🌱Sep 1, 2023
@tom_andraszek Since I arrived here in Feb, I've been surprised by this car-centred culture. I attribute a lot of this to the country's young age and the possibility of it making the same mistakes that older countries made in the past, shamelessly exploiting natural resources and enjoying a short-term economic boom. The Olympics in Bsb also makes them want to "modernise" the region. Well, that's the view of a Brazilian who just arrived in the country and has always been a cycle activist hahaha