With more pressure on all forms of transport, it’s great to see the police booking motorcycles using the bicycle lane in Melbourne this morning.

While it’s great to see people using motorbikes rather than cars, there has to be a common sense approach to motorbike riders using the bicycle lanes to avoid the traffic congestion.

It is extremely dangerous to cyclists when 150-300kg of metal is hurtling in and out of the cycling lane, at times narrowly missing the bicycle commuters.

If we are to encourage people to adopt bicycle usage over using their cars, it has to be safe.

The real solution is to introduce the Copenhagen style bicycle lanes which is what is proposed by the City Of Melbourne for the new Swanston St redevelopment.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010 at 9:34 am by Andrew Talati and is filed under Public interest.

Tags: bicycle lanes, Copenhagen bicycle lanes, Cycling, Cycling lanes

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