7 reasons including one very dangerous reason this bike lane plan is unviable. 
1. The Council website does not show any images of the intersection of Yeo Street and Ben Boyd Rd next to Neutral Bay Public School when heading in the direction of Watson Street. Apparently the bike lanes will abruptly stop prior to this intersection? Cyclists will have to dismount and cyclists hate dismounting!🤯

 

 

2. The Council website does not show any images of the intersection of Wycombe and Yeo where those travelling towards Rangers Rd or turning right onto Wycombe Rd will now be blocked by traffic turning left to access Military Rd and this occurs all day. 🤯

 

 

3. DANGER 🔥: Blocking the Yeo St and Wycombe Rd intersection will stop Fire 🔥 trucks having direct access to Rangers Rd, Wycombe Rd and all joining roads and streets! For Fire 🔥 trucks to get to Wycombe Rd or Rangers Rd when blocked will mean a 2-3km detour. 🤯

 

 

4. The Council website does show an image of the proposed one way exit from Harrison St on to Rangers Rd which drives over a pedestrian walkway (accident waiting to happen like the new exit off Young St) 🤯 and this looks more like a driveway from an apartment block not the exit from a 300 metre long street with multiple 9 storey apartment blocks and dozens of houses containing 1000’s of residents. And where will these residents end up at peak because Rangers Rd exit onto Military Rd is no left turn at peak they will end up on Yeo St again blocking Fire 🔥 trucks 🤯

 

 

 

5. The Council website does not show any images of the Barry Street exit which will also become one way and only exiting onto Yeo Street again blocking Fire 🔥 trucks. 🤯

6. By adding bike lanes that stop vehicle flow and one way lanes that empty vehicles onto Yeo Street at peak in particular there will be more vehicle congestion and therefore more vehicle carcinogens on Yeo Street outside homes and the school and the cyclists can breath this in too 🤯

7. So is putting these bike lanes on Yeo St with no mechanical barrier safer for cyclists when like Military Rd there are Buses, fire 🔥 trucks, more feral e-bike riders, more e-bike delivery and delivery vans and diesel trucks that supply Woolworth, and the new Woolworth development adding more cars to Yeo St which also has 4 busy street exits- Bydown St (Northside) and May Lane both exit onto Yeo Street from the always full 2 level Barry St Carpark and then we have Bydown St (Southside) and Barry St (becoming only one way 🤯) during school drop off and pick up which is also used by visitors of residents or local businesses which include multiple health practitioners and facilities. Then the added vehicle pollution.🤯

 

 

SOLUTIONS SO YEO ST PEDESTRIAN AND ROAD USER SAFETY IS IMPROVED AND CYCLIST HAVE A HASSLE FREE RIDE BYPASSING YEO ST:

1. Traffic calming NOT STOPPING FIRE 🔥 TRUCKS on Yeo St currently a section is missing a pedestrian crossing see map. The green squares with the ❎ represent safe pedestrian crossing points. This 😖 represents no calming or pedestrian crossing- Barry St is the only street or road crossing Yeo St without a pedestrian crossing and it is right in the centre of Neutral Bay? 🤯 

 

 

2. The safest, healthiest and most relaxing option for cyclists is simple and scenic and low cost to tax payers! Divert them away from Yeo Street. Cyclists can use Lindsay St from Ben Boyd Rd to bypass Yeo St completely with 3 minor modifications:

1. The sign at the end of Lindsay St that says “No through road” needs sign below stating  “Bicycles accepted” or “Bicycle lanes to Wycombe Road”.

2. Large White cycle images painted on the roads as a guide and signage which must be maintained on Ben Boyd, Lindsay, Barry, Anderson and Bennet and Shellcove…

3. Ilbery park needs to lose just over a 1.5 metres to fit 2 bike lanes so cyclists can easily access Anderson St that then goes to Wycombe Rd or Shellcove Rd or Bennet. That will be a loss of one parking space at the Ilbery Park entry point. If there is a concern for speeding along any of the streets or roads simply add the speed humps like on Park Rd next to Cremorne Golf Course. They will slow down vehicles and feral e-bike riders. 

It must be noted that cyclists do not pay to ride on our roads and until then they can do with what is provided!
NSW Government money is better spent on preventing youth crime and domestic violence.

From Ben Boyd Rd to Lindsay St to Barry St to Anderson St to Wycombe Rd it has NO buses, NO trucks, NO fire station, NO traffic lights, low traffic and long term parking so low risk of vehicles exiting causing an incident and clear lines of sight. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you