Adelaide is a city with genuine cycling credentials — the Tour Down Under sees to that every January. Now, city planners are weighing up a $150,000 trial of pop-up bike lanes through various CBD streets.
Adelaide City Council is exploring at least one temporary north-south cycleway and one east-west route through the city, with removable bollards the likely choice to physically separate cyclists from ever-increasing traffic.
Streets in the mix include Flinders, Franklin, Wakefield and Morphett, while speed limit reductions on busier corridors such as North Terrace, Waymouth and Halifax are also on the table, provided the state’s Transport Department agrees.
Councillor Eleanor Freeman, who put forward the original motion, said the city is getting denser and more needs to be done to help people get into, around and out of the CDB.
“Not everyone who lives in the city drives around, so it is starting to get to a point where we can't just keep deferring these hard decisions,” she told Council.
Some options are more straightforward than others. Stanley, Ward and Molesworth Streets are considered relatively low-disruption. Flinders and Franklin would require removing a traffic lane or car parking — changes Freeman herself described as “very complicated.”
Funding has already been allocated for the plan, with the Council expected to announce further details in the coming months.
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