Hi Guys I cycle through to town a few times a week using the BRT cycle path...which i enjoy. However, from CT station things get a bit dicey. At the monent, the cycle path starts at the bottom of the golden acre and runs up adderley to the gardens...which is great but for the following: 1. There is no safe way to get over strand street TO the beginning (or end if you're going towards the harbour) the cycle road. Currently i cycle off the station's paving and fall in at the traffic lights going up adderley and then join the path. This isn't as easy as it seems when the traffic is heave as there are two lanes turning onto strand, and you are GOING to ve to cross in front of a turning taxi going at Mach 12. Since there is no pedestrian crossing at that point either (i think u're supposed to walk thru the tunnel underneath running into the golden acre...where you CANT cycle)...it become a bit dangerous. The people who went thru all the trouble of building the cycle path...how did THEY plan one to get onto it? Am i missing something? 2. The cycle path (if you finally get onto it) is permanently full of crap from the street vendors! Umbrellas, chairs, boxses...and thisone rite a$$ who insists on parking his damn red motorbike (scrambler) right smack bang in the center of the path. Apart from one sunday afternoon, i have not cycled up there ONCE without a traffic officer beng around...and yet this is still done. This morning i had to stop, pick up my bike, and carry it around all the empty flower boxes, while having to take abuse from the flower vendors! What the hell did I do wrong?! they were on OUR path for crying in a bucket! One of these days someone is going to get hurt there, and what then? Either a cyclist is going to get run over trying to get ONTO the path, or someone is going to cycle into someone else or something ON the actual path. Can't there just be a little railing maybe, with a few gaps for pedestrian crossings that line up with those on the actual street, put on? What can we ask for, and who do we ask at the municipality? What does it help this awesome path was built an its unusable? I did once see the owner of the red motorbike (a security gaurd at the golden acre) and warned him that one day he might just come back and find his bike kicked over. I saw some guys kick over a BMW in paarden island during dec that an idio also parked on the bike trails. To be honest, im starting to feel fed up and willing to do the same...and i know i shouldnt. Comments, ideas?
