If it isn't bad enough that some of the design/implementation of on-road and off-road infrastructure by some HBCC staff, makes it difficult for us cyclists to ride our bicycles safely, they also break up the off-road surface we ride on as well.
Here is a picture of a crack in the Bay Trail at the rear of the Rifle Range Estate in Nth. Williamstown. I have measured this crack at approximately 45 meters. Note the truck tyre tracks on the grass in the upper left of the picture.
This is only one of 8-9 significant places photographed where the path has been broken.
The broken sections of path are approximately 150 meters in total over a distance of 500 meters (approx.).
In order to make the 8-9 places where the Bay Trail is broken, visible over a distance in a picture, I used all of a 400g can of paint to mark the cracks and I still ran out of paint with the 45 meter crack. As you can see.
I have also pictures of where black tyre marks have been left on the Bay Trail by truck drivers trying to keep on the trail while speeding around the bends.
Ride this section of the Bay Trail and see for yourself.
This kind of vehicular damage is also seen on the Bay Trail at Apex Park in Altona and the Skeleton Ck. Trail in Seabrook.
Irregardless of the drought, my MTB is just not heavy enough to break a 100mm reinforced concrete bicycle path in the manner shown in my pictures. Neither is a group of MTB's.
So much for the State Governments TravelSmart Program, getting people out of their cars and into public transport, riding bicycles and walking. In the breaking up of the Bay Trail and increasing the degree of difficulty in riding a bicycle safely, it seems that some HBCC staff are sabotaging the State Governments TravelSmart initiative.
