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.
this post was submitted on 10 May 2024
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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.
Apparently it's not finished yet and they might end up fencing it off to prevent going around in the dirt.
If it's tp keep motorbikes out then it has failed anyway because it stops at the edge of the path, and leaves plenty of room to drive a motorbike around.
They haven't finished. It will be fenced to the edges.
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.
The bit I was worried about is that it looks roughly the right height that the handlebars might hit the narrower top part.
Nah most bikes are much higher than those rails. If a bike isn't (like a kids bike), they can go under the rails on the sides since there's a sufficient height difference.