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I ride and drive and don’t get how bikes are allowed on the road 🙈🙈 it just feels too risky I don’t trust anyone

Enjoyed this video, thinking of doing a Brissie ride day for the first time, gives me some ideas where to go. Thanks 🚲

Great video!

Great video. Agree with your view on going through HSW. The developers seem to have been given free rein and likely to get worst with the new hotel in the pipeline. The lack of transparency is appalling. Doesn’t stop me writing to council complaining though !

Support from Toronto 👏👏👍

Try living in a small town in the United States. We're surrounded by loud ass pickup trucks and motorcycles constantly.

I would much rather cycle everywhere, but alas! I cannot. I live in Hallett Cove, Adelaide, South Australia, and car is king. Most arterial roads don't even have a footpath, let alone a painted on bike lane. The reality is, I cycle mostly for recreation off road as it's safe, fun and benefits my mental health. However, I'm constantly reporting poor cycling infrastructure issues to my local council and state government. Gotta keep up the good fight! Love your work mate. Your channel needs more publicity. BTW, I heard about you on a North American podcast today. Keep up the good fight mate. 👍

It's funny that we have some of the higher speed limits in urban areas with many different road users around but the lowest on motorways between cities.

I wish I met you when I visited and did road cycling there.my confidence is at level 0.5 around cars and angry drivers

I have a full-proof method too: I only ride at night 😂. Otherwise there's no way I would risk those murderous little turds! Nice video, thanks mate.

Yeah I rode through Howard Smith wharves on a Saturday night it probably would have been faster to walk

Great follow-up video Chris! You nailed the issues with the lack of links from Airport to Hamilton. I've started using the route around the race course as an alternative to Kingsford Smith Drive, but its not great either. It's a shame Brisbane City Council are just ignore feedback on where bicycle riders want to ride, and then bleat on about how much money they are spending on active transport. Through New Farm, you just can't use the share path if there are two or more riding together, you just get caught waiting and dodging walkers. After the sh!t show of Howard Smith Wharves, I cut through the city and follow Eagle St all the way to Creek St, turn right then left onto the Elizabeth St bike path, that works well for me and I don't need to go down the wrong way on the road 😁 When I get to the top of Elizabeth St at William St, I just ignore those lights and cross with care - the cycle on those lights is beyond a joke 🤬. Thanks again for this great resource!

Fantastic video Chris. Well done. I obviously enjoyed your review of the NBB from Bowen Hills to Wooloowin 😂😉 I recently landed at Copenhagen airport from Manchester. Travelling light with a backpack, it was such a joy to jump on a hired e-bike and ride on separated facilities directly from the airport to central CPH. We also have that opportunity in BNE. We all just need to keep working on it. Cheers.

7:20 wow I had no idea that path was bikes only. 10:06 "[the state government] clearly had a vision of a consistent separated cycleway with priority crossings"...except for when McDonald Rd crosses Blackmore St and again when you have to cross McDonald Rd at its intersection with Albion Rd, for some reason. Hopefully once that townhouse development near the train station is finished, there'll be some more tree cover at that section. (edit: ok glad to see you acknowledged those problems just a little later. I initially thought you had already moved past that section) One of my regular sport cycling routes goes to the airport. The section you're on at 14:40, we usually take the road on the way out (the nice wide shoulders aren't classed as bike lanes, but would be some of the best non-separated bike lanes available if they were), but we go back the same way, which requires being on that footpath. It's crazy how narrow it is. It's barely even suitable for pedestrians, let alone cyclists. The road shoulder there is so unnecessarily wide they can and should just reduce that to make the width of the separated path adequate. It's also appalling for connectivity. To get onto that footpath from the DFO (via the road that Google calls "The Cct" but Strava seems to call "The Blvd", I dunno which is right) requires traversing the roundabout with traffic (thankfully usually pretty quiet of a weekend) and then making an extremely tight >90 degree turn from the zebra crossing. There is _no_ way to cross from the northern leg of the Cct to the footpath over the bridge. It's astonishing how many Beam devices we still see around _months_ after they were told to get out of the city. I sure hope they're being fined by the day. (I doubt it...) I don't know why you would say your opinion on HSW and the CityLink connection is controversial. I don't think I've ever heard anyone say anything positive about that. I wouldn't change the score by more than 1 at most, but I do think you were overly generous about the CityLink Cycleway itself in your verbal description. The terrible intersections were noted, but not the poor narrow and bumpy design of it, which significantly detracts from comfort while using it.

I’d be scared to go on some of those on my motorbike. Imagine how light terrorist traffic would be if it was safe to cycle anywhere instead of nowhere. But as long as vegetables control development and infrastructure, vegetables run architecture businesses and vegetables vote for the same two demonic political parties why would things change ? Look at Britains narrow streets, they are like that cause they were developed a thousand years ago before cars n trucks, imbeciles here in Queensland make housing estates tiny for profit with the result cars line both sides of narrow streets . If you take a look at Yatala today once a bush hick town now four lanes of motorway trucks empty into its two lane roundabouts and it is murderous congestion all day because the imbeciles allow vast industry to develop in two shoe boxes and two alleyways masquerading as highways. Don’t expect brainless govt Harlots in suits to get bike traffic fixed.

Great video! Genuinely curious if you have suggestions for what locals can do to improve cycling infrastructure in brisbane (other than voting)?

Hey I’m new to Queensland, make the videos longer! I’d be happy watching you stop and feed the birds.

Hey Chris, good to see you back!

I really love the riverwalk through new farm but yeah it is a complete nightmare by bike. Luckily the roads through new farm are pretty cycle friendly (at least in my experience). Really good video - as someone who regularly commutes in peak hour on stage 5 I can confirm its not good - I find it a bit easier to go right at the roundabout and avoid turning right at those lights or going straight and connecting onto the bikeway through kalinga park on shaw road. Good video and I agree with all of your ratings.

great video as usual! run for BCC!

Another excellent and very informative video by Cox Productions.

Great video Chris. Totally agree that Howard Smith Wharves is a death trap. Sharp bumps, cars and drunk pedestrians. It's a total disaster and the council should be ashamed of this. I'd literally much just prefer to ride along the road. The amount of times I've nearly been taken out riding slowly through here is just crazy.

Most of the established off-street infrastructure was laid down in the 1970s and hasn't been improved much since, save sporadic maintenance or resurfacing. New suburbs, mostly found on the periphery, tend to have better and more comprehensive bike paths but for the most part you have to share narrow footpaths with pedestrians. This can work, but only if they upgrade most paths to at least 3m - normal footpaths are only half that by default. There is plenty of space available everywhere to put in new paths - either taken from the road width, or the setback. There really isn't any good excuses left not to.

higarn. cycling is allowed on footpaths, this is so the government can avoid having to invest in Actual bike infrastructure and street safety in established suburbs.

Ranger danger

It is important for cyclists to understand that the vehicle in this video is not a truck it is a car.

Hes just angry he cant get any cardio in

Old mate driver probably thinks he is the hero

Get out of people's way if you're going slow AF

It was dangerous... but not for you. Anyone who could've been using that adjacent pathway in that section would be in risk.

Your cat purring in your microphone sounds serious😊

You are responsible for your own safety.

Just because they put a little bike painted on the side of the road doesn’t mean people can’t park stuff there too😂 could use the footpath and go onto the grsss for pedestrians

😂😂 your content is so on point

Nice setup Chris. But still not going to vote Labor. That would be crazy.

He says while not wearing the legally required helmet. How someone can be so slow is amazing.

No one cares about cyclists.

The LNP?? Shocking

If you had worked harder and saved better you could afford to drive a car. Like a grown-up.

So because you cannot pedal the speed limit he is a dumbass?

Of course it is batshit crazy riding a motorbike at that speed is getting to the point the will not stay up ( and a motorbike is different to riding a pushbike ) next your will want it 20kph it is a road for MOTOR VEHICLE not push bikes 9 that is what foot paths and bike lanes are for ) . having so many speed limits is causing crashes because people are always checking the speedo and not the road at time 3:30 another cyclist riding in the middle of the road and not keeping to the left as per the road rules.....

People think bikes are for kids untill they can drive I ride25 miles a day

I'll be honest, this one doesn't bother me. It wasn't a close pass (at least, on camera it doesn't appear to be-happy to be corrected), they didn't cut across you, and neither road user had to do anything sudden or unsafe to react to the other's actions. Was it _necessary?_ No. But it was fine. Unless the camera is _very_ deceptive about the distance.

Its always a worry when someone shows so little patience. Car drivers like this are oblivious to their responsibility to keep others safe.