M2 Action this Saturday

This Saturday, 27th Jan. local cyclists are invited to attend a ride
along the affected section of the M2 - ear-marked to be closed to
cyclists from next month.

Whether you are a social rider, commuter or elite athlete, please come
and ride to show the NSW govt that we want our lanes preserved.

We will NOT be blocking traffic or attempting disruption of any form.
The intention is to simply ride a few laps of the affected section
(Delhi Rd to Beecroft - cross over the bridge - then back again) to
demonstrate our presence.

There is no leader and you are welcome to ride at your own pace (do a
training ride if you like), the point is to be seen and make your
presence felt.

Meet at 9 am Sat at the northern end of Vimiera Road (M2 bike access
hole), Marsfield.

Please come and help save these lanes - or we may lose others.

Scotty


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scotty72

In article ,
scotty72 wrote:

This Saturday, 27th Jan. local cyclists are invited to attend a ride
along the affected section of the M2 - ear-marked to be closed to
cyclists from next month.

Excellent!

Any idea how long the loop and ride would take? Just trying to slot it
in with some family responsibilities.
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In article ,
scotty72 wrote:

This Saturday, 27th Jan. local cyclists are invited to attend a ride
along the affected section of the M2 - ear-marked to be closed to
cyclists from next month.


If you could arrange for a couple of broken down cars in peak hour say
one ever other day for the rest of the month I reckon you'll get more
people ****ed off at Transurban.

That's the real seller of this - the lack of breakdown lane. Bikes get
to use the breakdown lane, losing it is bad. But think of the
disruption once traffic has to move around a broken down car in the "3rd
lane".

Once people realise that then there will be more support.

Zebee

Artoi Wrote:
In article ,
scotty72 wrote:

This Saturday, 27th Jan. local cyclists are invited to attend a ride
along the affected section of the M2 - ear-marked to be closed to
cyclists from next month.

Excellent!

Any idea how long the loop and ride would take? Just trying to slot it
in with some family responsibilities.
--As long as you like

The plan is we set off from the start (some media have indicated they
may show up - hopefully no major bush fires / assassinations etc. to
distract them) and do the big lap (about 10 ks) of the affected area.
You can leave after 1 lap, you can do 50. Do it as you like - but just
show that the lanes are loved.

Scotty


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scotty72

In article ,
scotty72 wrote:

Artoi Wrote:
In article ,
scotty72 wrote:

This Saturday, 27th Jan. local cyclists are invited to attend a ride
along the affected section of the M2 - ear-marked to be closed to
cyclists from next month.

Excellent!

Any idea how long the loop and ride would take? Just trying to slot it
in with some family responsibilities.
--As long as you like

The plan is we set off from the start (some media have indicated they
may show up - hopefully no major bush fires / assassinations etc. to
distract them) and do the big lap (about 10 ks) of the affected area.
You can leave after 1 lap, you can do 50. Do it as you like - but just
show that the lanes are loved.

Great! I should have enough time to do 2-3 laps.
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Artoi Wrote:
In article ,
scotty72 wrote:

This Saturday, 27th Jan. local cyclists are invited to attend a ride
along the affected section of the M2 - ear-marked to be closed to
cyclists from next month.

Excellent!

Any idea how long the loop and ride would take? Just trying to slot it
in with some family responsibilities.
--As long as you like

The plan is we set off from the start (some media have indicated they
may show up - hopefully no major bush fires / assassinations etc. to
distract them) and do the big lap (about 10 ks) of the affected area.
You can leave after 1 lap, you can do 50. Do it as you like - but just
show that the lanes are loved.

Scotty


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scotty72


I will be heading down to Dunc Gray on Saturday, I would love to do a lap
but I will only have my track bike with me and I don't think it would be
safe riding it with no brakes in a group of riders that have brakes and
don't know how to bunch ride correctly :P

And I don't think my Vittoria pista CL singles would last more than a few
wheel revolutions on a road

Zebee Johnstone wrote:
In article ,
scotty72 wrote:


This Saturday, 27th Jan. local cyclists are invited to attend a ride
along the affected section of the M2 - ear-marked to be closed to
cyclists from next month.



If you could arrange for a couple of broken down cars in peak hour say
one ever other day for the rest of the month I reckon you'll get more
people ****ed off at Transurban.

That's the real seller of this - the lack of breakdown lane. Bikes get
to use the breakdown lane, losing it is bad. But think of the
disruption once traffic has to move around a broken down car in the "3rd
lane".

Once people realise that then there will be more support.

Zebee
Exactly my thought, in fact lets hope the lack of a breakdown lane
causes an accident and Transurban and the RTA get sued over it.

Strangely I mentioned both the breakdown lane issue and the cycle lane
issue in my emails of complaint and only the cycle issue was mentioned
in the replies.



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Artoi wrote:

In article ,
scotty72 wrote:


This Saturday, 27th Jan. local cyclists are invited to attend a ride
along the affected section of the M2 - ear-marked to be closed to
cyclists from next month.


Excellent!

Any idea how long the loop and ride would take? Just trying to slot it
in with some family responsibilities.
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What time?

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Jack Russell Wrote:
Artoi wrote:

In article ,
scotty72 wrote:


This Saturday, 27th Jan. local cyclists are invited to attend a ride
along the affected section of the M2 - ear-marked to be closed to
cyclists from next month.


Excellent!

Any idea how long the loop and ride would take? Just trying to slot
it
in with some family responsibilities.
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What time?

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Remove norubbish to reply9am, Vimiera Rd sound barrier hole


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On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 06:47:08 +1100, Jack Russell wrote:

Exactly my thought, in fact lets hope the lack of a breakdown lane
causes an accident and Transurban and the RTA get sued over it.

If they ever go through with it.

Have such a road without a shoulder is a violation of safety principles.
And one small section of extra lane in one direction isn't going to do much
to help the M2 (which should have been built as 6 lanes (as should the Lane
Cove Tunnel) if the M7 was going to be build. Yet another ad hoc transport
disaster brought to you by the NSW ALP.

The whole things smelts of a stunt to distract from the Lane Cove Tunnel
problems. "We are shafting cyclists on the M2 make up for the fact that
were using a pointless cycle lane on Epping road as justification for
closing down lanes and forcing people into an inadequate tunnel".

You will notice that that ALP hasn't actually done anything about opening
the lanes they promised or removing cycles lanes in East Sydney. That was
yet another re-election stunt promising action but not actually doing
anything because if they did they would be liable for sending the tunnel
consortium bankrupt costing taxpayers massive amounts.

The reality is cyclists make up 0.6% of commutes or something in Sydney and
just don't matter, outside of Marraville when the ALP wants Green
preferences.

dewatf.