Money for bikes

warrwych said:

http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Uphill-ride-for-pushers-of-pedal-power/2005/06/01/1117568262335.html

less bikepaths/lanes = more chances of being hit by smsing 4wder
(having only fractionally missed being a hood ornament by young rap -
shtar p-plater - doof doof- this morning as I crossed a ped crossing on
foot grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 😠 )

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warrwych

"That doesn't please people like Lawrence Smith. His advertising agency
in Surry Hills shares space with three companies, and 11 of the 13
people who work
there cycle to the office. If any of Mr Smith's three workers need a new
bike, he pays half."

How do I get an employer like that?!

Tam

warrwych said:

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less bikepaths/lanes = more chances of being hit by smsing 4wder (having only fractionally missed being a hood ornament by young rap - shtar p-plater - doof doof- this morning as I crossed a ped crossing on foot grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 😠 )

Calling for improved public transport & cycling infrastructure must be combined with moves for attitudial/behavioural shift.

And then there's this:
Commuters voting with feet on accelerator pedal
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The shift by commuters away from Sydney trains and into cars is worsening. New government figures show 9 million fewer trips were made on CityRail this year than in 2001-02. As Sydney's train services are shunned after years of cancelled, late and slow services, traffic on the toll roads keeps rising. The biggest increases are on the M4 and the M5.

cfsmtb said:

The shift by commuters away from Sydney trains and into cars is worsening. New government figures show 9 million fewer trips were made on CityRail this year than in 2001-02. As Sydney's train services are shunned after years of cancelled, late and slow services, traffic on the toll roads keeps rising. The biggest increases are on the M4 and the M5.

I drive home east to the country from Melb many a Monday morning and even at 6 am the volume of traffic on the Monash heading in is frightening. The urban growth out isn't being met by public transport (although nice to see the tram lines being extended along that road that Blackburn cycling club is on - sorry can't think of the name right now!!).

When train and tram companies are offering recompense to commuters for poor service, to keep them on board, then something is wrong....

warrwych said:

The urban growth out isn't being met by public transport
(although nice to see the tram lines being extended along that road
that Blackburn cycling club is on - sorry can't think of the name right
now!!).

Burwood Highway. Damn shame they're not going all the way out to Knox;
I'd definitely use the stretch from Vermont to Knox on a regular basis.

Quoted message said:

When train and tram companies are offering recompense to commuters for
poor service, to keep them on board, then something is wrong....

I'd like to know how often they have to make good on that offer. Not
that the offer is there, but how often they manage to perform
sufficiently badly that compensation is due, regardless of whether it's
actually claimed.

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On 2005-06-02, warrwych (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Quoted message said:

When train and tram companies are offering recompense to commuters for
poor service, to keep them on board, then something is wrong....

Where do they do that? I was bikeless on Tuesday, as I had my bike in
for service, and both in the morning and evening, the train was 10
minutes late.

I notice last month, the performance figures were hovering very close
to the "Connex will now be punished by the state government" line, and
I have since found out how they stay above that line. If the trains
have been running bad, and it looks like they need to improve
performance, they just don't bother stopping at smaller stations so
the train magically comes back to being ontime.

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Stuart Lamble said:

I'd like to know how often they have to make good on that offer. Not
that the offer is there, but how often they manage to perform
sufficiently badly that compensation is due, regardless of whether it's
actually claimed.

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I used to commute in on VLine daily. At least 2 days a week, if not more, the train would be anything up to an hr late into Spencer (I got off before then so the delay was reduced for me). As they were not meeting monthly KPI, then regular passengers were able to claim free tickets as recompense. You have to contact the Head Office to make good on the claim however. The process became common knowledge amonst the regular commuters and it was only available to regular commuters.

I saw on the news a few weeks back that same deal was occuring for the tram services. If it hit the news that the trams were offering the same deal, then service must be extremely bad for this bit of PR to hit state-wide news services as a media release.

Warrwych said:

less bikepaths/lanes = more chances of being hit by smsing 4wder

Aye - It's a mess. The "cycle path" along Epping road is a good example.

Four years ago, in submissions to the Lane Cove tunnel project, Bike North lobbied for a proper on-road cycle lane along Epping Road, between Longueville Road and Wicks Road. The RTA said it was too dangerous for cyclists to ride on Epping road, so a compromise was reached (a pretty poor compromise at that) of a shared path along one side.

Now local residents are p***ed off, at the thought of having commuting cyclists whizzing past their driveways at up to 50km/h, and want the cycle path axed all together, as they say (quite rightly) that it's dangerous having such a major cycle link on a path, and it should be on the road.

Makes ya want to cry.

Regards,

Suzy

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Quoted message said:

warrwych said:

http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Uphill-ride-for-pushers-of-pedal-power/2005/06/01/1117568262335.html

less bikepaths/lanes = more chances of being hit by smsing 4wder
(having only fractionally missed being a hood ornament by young rap -
shtar p-plater - doof doof- this morning as I crossed a ped crossing on
foot grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 😠 )

Calling for improved public transport & cycling infrastructure must be
combined with moves for attitudial/behavioural shift.

And then there's this:
Commuters voting with feet on accelerator pedal
http://tinyurl.com/dhmw4

The shift by commuters away from Sydney trains and into cars is
worsening. New government figures show 9 million fewer trips were made
on CityRail this year than in 2001-02. As Sydney's train services are
shunned after years of cancelled, late and slow services, traffic on
the toll roads keeps rising. The biggest increases are on the M4 and
the M5.

--
cfsmtb

Yeah, I was almost one of those who gave [censored] (city) Rail a major miss
having been late for work on many occassions and if I'm late for work so are
at least 70 others as my bus doesn't run either.

I would love dearly to ride into work but the thought of doing 26kms on the
M5 on a bicycle at 4am on a winter's morning has deterred me
somewhat....yeah I know I'm a Wuss 🙂

I can't afford to run a second car, the Mrs won't let me have a motorbike so
I'm stuck with [censored] Rail for the time being........sigh!!

Yes, but you are sooooo right cfsmtb, there has been a big increase in
traffic especially on the M5, in fact, I was driving along the M5 this
morning about 5.30am and was down to a crawl just before King Georges Road
(near beverly hills), what's it gunna be like in 10 yrs; probably have to
leave home at 2am to get there by 5..........only 1hr 15 mins on a
bike.......see; I have done it before!!

DJ