An interactive crash map, compiled by the RACQ, is shining the light on problematic and risky places to ride across Queensland, and five suburbs are standing out.
The work forms part of RACQ’s ‘Safer Pathways Survey’, which aims to understand how people walk, ride or use micromobility to move around the state.
The data map, which can be viewed here, reveals a range of locations that respondents have identified as problematic, from Cairns to Brisbane CBD.
In Brisbane, there are a few suburbs that stand out. The southern Brisbane suburb of Tarragindi copped the most complaints, followed by Toowong in the inner southwest, particularly about Sylvan Rd. The Brisbane CBD, Wooloowin and Nerang comprised the remainder of the five.
A number of complaints were also made across Townsville, Mackay and the Sunshine Coast.
RACQ have sent these to local and state government for the purpose of improving active transport facilities.
Similar platforms have identified hotspots for unsafe riding. Bikespot was a Victorian-based project run in collaboration with Amy Gillett Foundation, where the public identified locations where they had experienced a crash or near miss.
The UpRide platform, run by Cycliq, has taken crowdsourced bike crash data collection to the global scale.
Together, these types of data repositories paint a concerning but nonetheless important picture of bike safety across our cities, one which will hopefully result in improved bike infrastructure.
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