businesstime wrote:

danose wrote:

businesstime wrote:
Ill second that. I reckon the entire length of Ferry road is a major hazard for bike riders. Your better off cutting through Bridal Path-Port Hills - Centaurus road to avoid att the carnage that Ferry Road brings.

true - I never go down ferry rd, it's a killing zone

however have you noticed the 'inspired' cycle management they're trying to bring in where port hills rd passes under the motorway - they now expect all cyclists to go up onto the footpath etc.....presumably to stop issues with how narrow those lanes
are.

I'll just be carrying on taking the whole lane and making traffic wait I think

Yeah i did notice that. What a shambles. A cyclist clearly did not come up with that design. Pisses me off actually....

I think you'll find that it (like the equally dumb-ass lanes on tennyson st) were thought up by someone focussed entirely on 'getting kids to school safely' (cos they sort of make sense for young kids) and they weren't even thinking about someone pulling 40km/h on a road bike

since the 2004 land transport safety ammendments makes it specificially OK for a cyclist to ignore a marked cycle lane where using it would be 'dangerous or unsuitable' I feel quite happy ignoring the sign

If you want to see 'well designed' cycle lanes, you should see the two 45 degree turns you have to take within 10 metres if you want to stay in the lane at the intersection of Curletts and Main South Road just before Yaldhurst Road. I think Zorro is on the design planning team.

Trail wrote: Whats the bet there was a line of traffic going home to sumner and gurney was biking in the cycle lane inside the line of traffic. Someone will have left a gap for a car coming the other way to turn into the supermarket and they will have turned right across him...

If this is the situation, then it really is not his fault, but I could see how it could happen.

I agree. Ferry Road is a scary place on a bike.

Sounds like that exactly what happened. Mate at work his wife watched whole thing happen she was first on scene, knocked out and broke his collar bone I think. Its hard when someone waves you through when you dont know if they have looked in their rear view mirror for us cyclists.

happybaboon wrote: My pick is that Steve Gurney is fine, and that the driver of the car came away from the accident far worse off. Cos Steve Gurney is fully tough as.

Agreed - he's like Chuck Norris, but a bit harder

JimmyM wrote:

Trail wrote: Whats the bet there was a line of traffic going home to sumner and gurney was biking in the cycle lane inside the line of traffic. Someone will have left a gap for a car coming the other way to turn into the supermarket and they will have turned right across him...

If this is the situation, then it really is not his fault, but I could see how it could happen.

I agree. Ferry Road is a scary place on a bike.

Sounds like that exactly what happened. Mate at work his wife watched whole thing happen she was first on scene, knocked out and broke his collar bone I think. Its hard when someone waves you through when you dont know if they have looked in their rear view mirror for us cyclists.

And its not the first time thats happened in exactly that spot. Last person also had a broken collarbone and the woman driving thought (and still thinks) she did nothing wrong because she didnt see the cyclist.

only time i've ever really spent time in chch I was climbing in the port hills and watched a car run itself off the road passing a cyclist.

If your from dunedin you should have been impressed by the quality of driving in chch! Iv felt so much safer on the roads the last week up here! Even on ferry rd

Lozz wrote: If your from dunedin you should have been impressed by the quality of driving in chch! Iv felt so much safer on the roads the last week up here! Even on ferry rd

Be afraid.

danose wrote:

businesstime wrote:
Ill second that. I reckon the entire length of Ferry road is a major hazard for bike riders. Your better off cutting through Bridal Path-Port Hills - Centaurus road to avoid att the carnage that Ferry Road brings.

true - I never go down ferry rd, it's a killing zone

however have you noticed the 'inspired' cycle management they're trying to bring in where port hills rd passes under the motorway - they now expect all cyclists to go up onto the footpath etc.....presumably to stop issues with how narrow those lanes
are.

I'll just be carrying on taking the whole lane and making traffic wait I think

They're putting traffic lights in on the causeway where Mt Pleasant road enters too. That'll be a big "improvement"!

I can't remember the last time I rode down Ferry Road. It's the suxxor.

Clarky wrote:

businesstime wrote:Sometimes you just cant beat cycling out in the back blocks like North Canty and Lincoln/Greenpark. No glass and fewer idiiots.

Except the idiots you do see are doing 120kph in Hilux's and see how close they can get just for sport....

i wasnt that close to you clarky

Trail wrote: Whats the bet there was a line of traffic going home to sumner and gurney was biking in the cycle lane inside the line of traffic. Someone will have left a gap for a car coming the other way to turn into the supermarket and they will have turned right across him...

I bet you're right- that happens to me all the time there. I liken riding Ferry Road to riding "The Gauntlet"

Al_Bushman wrote: They're putting traffic lights in on the causeway where Mt Pleasant road enters too. That'll be a big "improvement"!

inspired! so they'll cure the accidents there by replacing it with massive tailbacks? cool!

guess we can always cut up gelnstrae and down major hornbrook/cannon hill cres to bypass the congestion

Lozz wrote: If your from dunedin you should have been impressed by the quality of driving in chch! Iv felt so much safer on the roads the last week up here! Even on ferry rd

They truly are idiots in Dunedin. The glass in North Dunedin is just plain shithouse.
The narrow roads of Dunedin's 'inspired' town planning don't help things though.

ironman legend ???
has steve gurney even done an iornman event

I thought he was a multi sporter

anyway, he'll be fine, he's STEVE GURNEY

Watch out along ferry Rd CHCH, can get messy!