Shared pathway adjacent to the Õtaki River
Shared pathway adjacent to the Õtaki River
Transcription: a photo of a shared pathway entrance with a series of steel pipes placed to create very narrow pathways to enter. The width is hard to tell from the angle of the photo, but far too narrow for a wheelchair or bicycle to fit.
I cant figure out what they intend this to do.
Supposedly it's to keep motorbikes out.
But when your design also forces bikes to be lifted up, cuts out wheelchairs and even fat people...it's astonishing to me that any government department could think this was OK.
Motorbikes will 100% go round via that patch of dirt next to it.
I reckon (could be way wrong) that you could get a bicycle through by turning the handlebars 90 degrees in either direction so they slip through the thin bit and the bit at the bottom is wider so the wheel could go through as long as you lift it and roll the bike on its back wheel. Thats still really rubbish if that’s the design tho.edit: nevermind, I was looking at it wrong. I don’t think that works.I doubt a wheelchair is getting through there anyway anyhow.
It's a very common design on shared walking/cycleways. A bike will fit through the middle, they are pretty skinny. And the one in the OP isn't finished, then will fence up to the sides so you have to go through it.
I guess fuck prams right
that looks like only kids would fit through
I've seen these around a bit. I think the idea is you walk through the side while pushing your bike through the middle. But you can ride through if you've had a bit of practice.
They want to keep out motorbikes, though, so they need to be pretty skinny.
Honestly coming from a place where even normal banana bars are being removed from path entrances, I think "they want to keep out motorbikes" is an incredibly lazy reason to have such a terrible and inaccessible design. Police enforcement is the appropriate way to deal with rare cases where someone takes their motorbike onto a clearly illegal path.
As a general guiding principle, even if we ignore the accessibility issues for wheelchairs, fat pedestrians, or more unusual types of bicycles, if your intended design involves expecting cyclists to get off their bike, that is a horrible design. Bike infrastructure should never expect a cyclist to dismount any more than car infrastructure should expect a driver to get out and push.
I have got though these at reasonable speed on my mountain bike (when I was younger), with a very little bit of practice, riding through these is not hard.
No idea about wheel chairs though.
Just dont ding ya fancy stanchions!