and people wonder why cyclists ride on the road.

The Great Bambino said :

and people wonder why cyclists ride on the road.

And also how they have an inability to follow rules for their own safety and ignore they brightly coloured dayglow orange barrier tape trying to keep users away from the hazardous area.

So THAT’s why the cycle path is closed.

I ignore the barrier tape and still ride through this bit of the path for now. There’s only two main alternatives, ride out through Kingston foreshore and Jerra wetlands or ride on the road past Russell and Duntroon – not a particularly bicycle friendly road. The location of the cracks means that it’s not easy for a detour to be created.

The Great Bambino said :

And also how they have an inability to follow rules for their own safety and ignore they brightly coloured dayglow orange barrier tape trying to keep users away from the hazardous area.

Um I think that I would still pick my way carefully through the crevasses there than get onto road above (trucks at 80 kmh, no shoulder etc)

Some of the barriers that were blocking the flooded bike paths around the place are still there. Many have been cast aside by walkers or cyclists as there is no danger any more.

That’s obviously not the case with this one but it’s easy to ignore a barrier if all the other ones you’ve seen shouldn’t be there.

The Great Bambino said :

thy_dungeonman said :

and people wonder why cyclists ride on the road.

And also how they have an inability to follow rules for their own safety and ignore they brightly coloured dayglow orange barrier tape trying to keep users away from the hazardous area.

If the follow follow rules for their own safety and heed the barriers then where can they ride?
the road.
that is exactly my point.

Also while this is chance occurrence probably due to the recent rain there are a lot cycle/footpaths that are in poor repair or do not connect to anything which is why people resort to this system of roads we have which reaches just about everywhere.

OpenYourMind said :

I ignore the barrier tape and still ride through this bit of the path for now. There’s only two main alternatives, ride out through Kingston foreshore and Jerra wetlands or ride on the road past Russell and Duntroon – not a particularly bicycle friendly road. The location of the cracks means that it’s not easy for a detour to be created.

There is a track between Russel and ADFA on the north side of Parkes Way. It should serve your needs. It is pretty flat, has nice views and even a historical farm thing.

Holditz said :

Perhaps more concerning is that retaining wall on the left has got Parkes Way on top of it

Typical, always thinking first about drivers, not about the bike riders.

Cyclists are bad, m’kay…

The road in question isn’t Parkes Way, it’s Moreshead Drive. Parkes Way finishes at Kings Avenue.

Such a shame. That is a very pretty pathway. And yes, there’s an old road behind A Block at Russell, skirts around the hill past the old Dairy, to the back of Duntroon, where that old road they blocked off with the brick walls commemorating battles runs up. You can ride down through Duntroon, to the golf course and playing fields where there’s a quiet road that goes down through those, and it comes out at the big oval where they removed the Cottonwoods, on Moreshead Drive, and you can re-join the bike path.

Could be an old asbestos waste dump giving way from under and releasing particles in the air?

I hear they are everywhere out there..