The brakes have been pumped on a push from town of East Fremantle residents to create safe stopping points for cyclists.<\/p>\n
Residents at the town\u2019s annual meeting of electors in January voted for the town to look at installing \u201ccyclist boxes\u201d at four highway intersections.<\/p>\n
Cyclist boxes are areas at the front of signalised intersections with a green surface, marked with a bike symbol.<\/p>\n
They enable cyclists to stop ahead of cars to wait for a green signal, and are intended to make them more visible to motorists.<\/p>\n
The electors\u2019 meeting called for them to be installed at the Preston Point Road\/Canning Highway, Petra Street\/Canning Highway, East Street\/Canning Highway, and Marmion Street\/Stirling Highway intersections.<\/p>\n
But town councillors voted unanimously at their November 18 meeting not to go ahead with them after a staff report said they would not provide value for money.<\/p>\n
It said cyclist boxes at the proposed intersections would cost from $200,000 to more than $480,000.<\/p>\n
Their installation generally required a combination of new signal poles, new signal lanterns, traffic loop relocation, signal controller updates and resurfacing, including green surfacing, the report said.<\/p>\n
It said the expenditure was not considered justified given the low or negative safety benefits it would bring.<\/p>\n
Concerns included that it would encourage cyclists to mix with traffic in an unsuitable environment.<\/p>\n
The East Street\/Canning Highway intersection was not considered, as it is not controlled by traffic signals.<\/p>\n
There had been no recorded bicycle accidents at the intersections in the past five years.<\/p>\n
Cr Cliff Collinson said he \u201cvery reluctantly\u201d agreed not to go ahead with the boxes.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought it would be just slapping a bit of paint on the road and that would be all it amounted to,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo actually implement it would be in the \u2018too hard\u2019 basket.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cr Rebecca Cutter said the town supported supplying cycling infrastructure.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis isn\u2019t about saying no to cycling infrastructure, just to this specific recommendation,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The town has put money aside for the development of a cycle lane link from Preston Point Road to Riverside Road in 2025-26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The brakes have been pumped on a push from town of East Fremantle residents to create safe stopping…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,10992,135,44,46,84,8080,85,45],"class_list":["post-328258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-fremantle","tag-local-government","tag-news","tag-perth","tag-politics","tag-south","tag-sports","tag-wa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}