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An Adelaide City councillor who helped vote down the east-west bikeway has called for Hindley, Waymouth and Franklin Streets to be made one-way to make room for two-way bikeways and wider footpaths – but another councillor has already attacked the idea as a “brain fart”.
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Adelaide should be the most cycle-friendly city in Australia, but a deeply-ingrained regressive approach to transport policy has killed the most basic attempt to improve CBD roads, argues David Washington.
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The State Government will take back $3 million in bikeway funding granted to Adelaide City Council and spend it on other transport projects in the CBD, after the council last night voted to scrap long-touted plans for an east-west cycling route.
Designs for a long-delayed east-west bikeway through the city will be signed off by the end of the year, with the Adelaide City Council rushing to get the $6 million project finished before a $3 million State Government funding offer expires.
The Adelaide City Council’s plans for its long-overdue east-west bikeway have again stalled, as councillors demand more reports and voice concerns about a cycling corridor’s impact on council-owned car parks.
Adelaide City Council transport planners have told councillors that they stand by a three-year-old recommendation that the best route for an east-west bikeway is along Flinders and Franklin streets, as argument and construction work along the north-south route brings the $12m project to a halt.
South Australia spends the least amount on cycling infrastructure in the country, but Adelaide’s CBD has the most and cheapest car parking of any capital city, a State Government and city council-commissioned analysis has found.
