13 reasons including dangerous reasons this bike lane plan is not doable on Yeo St Neutral Bay. Bike lane plan 👉 🚽!! 

1. The intersection of Yeo Street and Ben Boyd Rd next to Neutral Bay Public School when heading in the direction of Watson Street. The bike lanes will abruptly stop prior to this intersection? Cyclists will have to ride or dismount on to the footpath with pedestrians rather than simply flowing with other traffic this will stop most cyclists using these bike lanes 🙈

2. At the intersection of Wycombe Rd and Yeo St where those travelling towards Rangers Rd or turning right onto Wycombe Rd will lose this passing lane so they will be blocked by all traffic turning left to access Military Rd 24/7. 🙈

3. The intersection of Wycombe and Yeo St will become no right turn (except buses) resulting in a 2-3km detour for all other vehicles. And buses will block all traffic turning left or going straight 🙈

4. DANGER💥 the 263 bus will not be able to turn left. Bus drivers currently use the existing passing lane for safely turning left into the bus stop. Bus drivers will have to enter oncoming traffic to turn if the bike lanes are in place 🙈.

5. 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. 🙈

6.  The Fire truck requires the full width of Yeo St to manoeuvre in and out of the fire station.🙈

7. At the intersection of Yeo St and Wycombe Rd Cyclists will again have to ride or dismount onto the footpath with pedestrians and will have to get on to Wycombe Rd via a shared bike and pedestrian crossing? Then they will have to turn left on to Harrison St to access Ranger Rd. Rather than simply flowing with other traffic along Yeo Street and turning right on to Rangers Rd this will also stop most cyclists using these bike lanes! 🙈

8. 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 🙈

9. The Barry Street exit which will also become one way resulting in it solely exiting over the planned bike lanes on Yeo Street and adding more vehicles on to Yeo Street. 🙈

10. By adding bike lanes that stop existing vehicle flow and adding one way lanes that will 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 Cyclists will breath this in too! 🙈

11. Heavy vehicles are currently calmed due to parking both sides of Yeo St what slows these vehicles if the bike lanes go in?🙈

12. 57 parking spaces will be lost so residents, tradesmen, cleaners, carers etc etc will now have to walk hundreds of metres and time is money 🙈

13. DANGER 🔥 most of the parking spaces lost are going to go onto Barry St that is 7.6 metres wide. Currently it is 2 way accessible to the school. The plan to make it one way and put parking on both sides. NSW FIRE has stated they will be able to enter Barry St let alone drive along it unless all vehicles park right up against the kerb in the gutter. 🙈

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

(1) A NEW PEDESTRIAN CROSSING results in traffic calming/safety and NOT STOPPING FIRE 🔥 TRUCKS on Yeo St. Barry St is currently the only street or road crossing Yeo St without a pedestrian crossing and it is in the very centre of the shopping and business district in 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:

(i) 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”.

(ii)  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…

(iii) 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.