(A thread with photos)

The Council of the City of Sydney is building six “pop-up cycleways” to help people to avoid public transport and cycle to work during COVID-19.

The first two have opened in recent days, one along Sydney Park Road in Erskineville and one along Henderson Road & Bridge Street in Eveleigh & Erskineville.

I went on another late night ride on a brisk winter’s evening to check them out. I’m rather impressed. For “temporary” pop-up cycleways they’re reasonably well engineered (with some things that need improving) and feel rather permanent.

Thank you, Clover Moore! Clover Moore is my bae and I won’t have a bad word said against her.

More information on the City of Sydney’s “pop-up” cycleways can be found here: https://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/vision/better-infrastructure/streets-and-public-places/current-works/pop-up-cycleways

Here’s a map of the pop-up cycleways from Transport for NSW:

Now for the photos:

Looking east from the western end of the Sydney Park Road cycleway near St Peters station. Between the Princes Highway (about a hundred metres behind me) and this photo there’s a “blue stripe” shared path so bikes don’t have to ride on the road

Looking east along Sydney Park Road

The eastern end of the Sydney Park Road cycleway just west of Mitchell Road. There’s a shared path between here and Mitchell Road, and then a series of “blue stripe” shared paths and quiet back streets that head northeast towards Redfern and the city

The eastern end of the Henderson Road cycleway looking west from the Mitchell Road intersection

A temporary ramp at the eastern end of the Henderson Road cycleway

The Henderson Road cycleway doesn’t have the reflective rubber posts on the lane dividers but it is wider and feels better engineered than the Sydney Park Road cycleway

An unusual bulge at the Alexander Street intersection

Very bizarre treatment at the Alexander Street intersection. Cars have to go through this sort of chicane with plastic Jersey barriers in the middle of it all that must be there to prevent cars turning right. It’s rather confusing.

Where Henderson Road intersects side streets, there are these little waiting bays so bikes turning across the road can wait for a gap in car or bike traffic without obstructing through traffic

On Erskineville Road outside Erskineville station, the cycleway gets its own bike light. Not bad for a possibly “temporary” pop-up cycleway

The Henderson Road cycleway continues across Erskineville Road along Bridge Street

The western end of the Henderson Road/Bridge Street cycleway at Ashmore Street. This seems slightly unsafe to me, having a Jersey barrier sitting in the middle of the end of the southbound lane at the end of a very steep downhill grade

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