On 13 Jan 2006 04:07:01 -0800, "Bleve" <
[email protected]> wrote
in aus.bicycle:
>
>One side of the bridge is for pedestrians, and the other for bikes
>(from memory, the west side is for bikes, the east for peds). It's a
>very pretty tootle. Don't expect to be able to hoot over it, it'll
>probably be full off gawking tourists on hybrids stopping to look and
>block the path! It certainly was when I did it years ago (I was one of
>them!)
This is bit off topic but I recently went up to Sydney with a friend
from the UK and on a couple of ocassions went for a walk on the
harbour bridge. I was astounded by the number of people on the
foorpath and using the cycleway.
When I first came to Sydney in the mid sixties I lived at Cremorne
Point (gawd I wish I had bought that house then) and regualrly used to
walk from there to the Cross where I worked every afternoon and back
again in the night. There was NOBODY ever on the bridge except the
hobos in the arches under the road on the southern end - this area is
now neatly fenced off with a very high fence - I spent many a happy
hour drinking $1 bottles of sherry there I can tell you!!
Likewise the 'road from the opera house along the shoreline past the
Botanic gardens now you can't bloody move for being run over by
hundreds of sodding joggers - Gawking tourists I can put up with,
bloody joggers should be lynched especially when they suddenly stop
to put on an exhibition of push ups, sit ups and stretches, talk about
onanism in public! Give us a break!
Well having got that off my chest I shall retire...
Regards
Prickles
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