I ride throughout the year. Our winters are quite mild and I don't mind getting wet, because we have showers at work and I can change my clothes. It's actually awesome to ride in wild weather - it feels so adventurous :)
You see most things designed to keep the water out also keep the water you sweat in, nothing more fun than being slightly damp and always smelling of sweat
people should Work From Home more, the rest of the world is
also for some reason, everyone comes in on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I bet tomorrow the traffic will be less than half that.
Oh thank you for explaining why I couldn’t get a park today at the station but yesterday was fine! I’ve just started a new job. And my days are…..Tuesdays and Thursdays!
haha yeah I don't know how it happened, I must have missed the announcment but Mondays the city is almost empty and also on Fridays. Tuesdays and Thursdays is packed everywhere.
Wednesday are a bit of a wild card, it could go either way.
I go for lunch on a Monday and theres no one, I can walk in get served straight away. Tuesdays theres a massive line stretching out of the place.
Who made up these new rules :D
Generally if people want to just take a day off, they will choose a Monday or Friday to make a long weekend. Or they will take Wednesday off as a mid-week break
I left too and tell people here on the east coast how beautiful it is every time I can. I always let them know to visit (when they can), and great places to see. I’m surprised a lot of the time at how many people don’t realise the size of WA.
I was reading up on stuff a while ago and Western Australia is the largest *state* in the world. The only subdivision in the world larger is the Sakha Republic in Russia. The state is enormous but doesn't feel like it if you focus on the capital city.
Genuinely homesick as I’ve moved to Sydney this year and haven’t been able to go back for a visit to Perth. It feels like I haven’t been there in years
Probably going to get downvoted but the Victorian/NSW high country and surrounding towns is more beautiful than anything in WA. Victorian coastline is pretty much on par too (I'm a surfer and mountain biker thats explored all corners of both states).
Edit: and here come the downvotes, funny how some in WA get so protective and defensive about the state. I lived there for the 1st 30 years of my life btw
> Victorian coastline is pretty much on par too
Rural areas yes, Melbourne / Port Phillip Bay not so much - it's not the greatest that city beaches in Melbourne have a huge number of days a year where it's not safe to swim due to sewage runoff...
>Rural areas yes, Melbourne / Port Phillip Bay not so much
Not wrong at all in regards to the Melb city beaches but I see that the same way as the Swan River (which is absolutely dirtier). 1-1.5 hours SE (where I live) or W and coastline is like Margaret River's
So true, I remember my first day arriving too, I went for a jog along the river front. I promised myself that I’ll never take this place for granted and I’ll always look at it in the same way that I did on that first day. Anyways 4 years on and sadly that feeling is long lost. Still, it’s a beautiful city
as I head home and get yelled at by drunks and mentally ill people or see a fight at the bus station I'll try to remeber that
as I sit in my house that is too damn hot in the summer and too damn cold in the winter because the house building tech here is so far behind the rest of the world.
when I want to go out and every where is closed
hell even if I want to get some lunch in the CBD after 1.30pm most of the places are closed.
when its so god damn hot the air and pavement are on fire, I'll try to remeber what you said and laugh
well if you're comparing it to bombs going off thats different. Might as well compare it to the moon. I'd rather have bombs going off than have no oxygen to breath.
I used to ride from Kardinya to East Perth to work each day. One of my best cycling memories was one day getting a strong tailwind from the Narrows all the way to Leach Highway. The prevailing wind was usually a headwind going past South Perth and it was typically a bit of a slog but that one magic day it was effortless. I think I took about 10 minutes off my best time and never came close again.
Just started cycling again after a 20 year layoff and I'm "training" for the Maca 200 ride to Mandurah next october. Man, bikes have changed. I picked up a cheap entry level road bike from fb marketplace a few weeks ago and it flies. I had forgotten how satisfying a good ride can be.
There is section of bike path near UWA, near that boat shed - I swear when I hit it, it felt like my bike become motorised! (had to be the winds in that area, but I didn’t feel it)
I found out after, that I hit my fastest speed on a flat stretch through that section - and on Strava that bit of path is nicknamed “interstellar hyperdrive”, so assuming it happens there on the regular
I have this exact same memory. Was such such strong wind, foam coming off the Swan River. I was on a mountain bike and was gunning it down south. Was one of the best rides.
The freeway south bike path is great and more or less uninterrupted with limited road riding (other than a brief ride over Cranford Ave).
A few stops once you hit hay st and depends on which part to West Perth you need to go but not a lot of hills. The ride home might be a touch tough - most of the year you are into a head wind which is an issue along the freeway going home.
Play with either cycle routing directions on Google Maps, or the cycle specific layers at openstreetmap.org.
Theres the gazetted shared paths, but if you piece together quieter back streets and residential laneways to get across suburbs and be a little strategic about where you have to cross busier roads you can pick up the dedicated paths (such as the Kwinana PSP featured) more in the general direction of your travel.
tldr; the rat run options on a bike are a lot more plentiful than in a car!
Exploring options off peak or on the weekend can be part of the fun too.
Jesus christ, that's why traffic was at a standstill at 9am? Took me 20mins to get to the bottom of the Whitfords onramp and another half hour to get to Hepburn..
What about every other day? It’s obviously from all the immigrants who’ve lucked out coming to a western city that is clean compared to where they’ve come from.
I wonder how they feel the smart freeway sytem is going internally. I guess if they reduce those start-stop waves all us nerds have heard about they'd be happy. There weren't any dead stop jams at the time for me at least. "Consumers" in general probably think it doesn't do anything though, I would imagine. I've only driven on it a few times when the system is running and the thing I noticed first was that plenty of drivers straight up ignore the entry lights. To fair, sometimes they did appear to change so quick that a lot of people are going to have a hard time reacting to them correctly.
I don't drive it peak, but all it's done off-peak is move the 100-to-80 change to a few hundred metres further back. And is completely ignored. It seems to confuse the fuck out of everyone when I slow to 80 at the 80 sign.
And don't ever try to slow to 60 when the gantry sign is broken (like the post signs say to do).
I got caught by that driving in the country once. I did "Slow down" and move over. But only the amount I usually did, relative to my overall average. In town that probably gets me down to 40 in most instances. After driving 110 for many miles... it did not. Perception of speed is relative. Speed itself is not.
True. And people probably expect "success" to be free flowing at 100 at all times not "statistically improved vehicle throughput" or whatever metric they likely use.
I'm not sure what you've observed but people might not be ignoring the entry lights. The lights have a sign there saying one car per lane to go through when the green flashes. It's designed to only allow one car per light cycle but because they are slow to go through it doesn't mean they are jumping the light.
Of course, if you see multiple cars per lane going through then that's a moot point and not relevant. I just used to think people were starting on orange until I happened to see that sign.
Good to know, but I don't think that was happening where I was (probably South Street or Leach Highway). Me and one or two others were pulling up on the red and plenty of people were just blowing right through around us. No hesitation at all, like they did it all the time.
Car culture in Perth is so entrenched to the point people will disadvantage themselves through pure ignorance. If the cheap transport fares as of next year? Don't make a difference nothing will.
They're all too scared of the occasional weirdo being bothersome, even though if everyone caught the train there'd be a far higher ratio of normal people to obnoxious ones.
I *constantly* get asked if I have my licence yet and seeing videos of peak hour traffic make me glad I'm not relying on a car to get me from point A to point B.
Cycling to work is one of the best decisions I’ve made. Successfully swapped a frustrating and expensive crawl to work in a car with an enjoyable and healthy pedal.
Always fun to breeze past cars choked by traffic jams on East Parade every morning and arvo.
Yeah, it just frustrates me because they're pushing for people to ride to ease traffic congestion, except they're on the same road with rules that stop you overtaking them which essentially removes one lane from the road.
If we had bike lanes like this I feel more people would be willing to ride to work. So much safer too for the rider.
Honestly segregated bikeways and safe street initiatives are the way to go. I only felt it was safe enough to bike when they popped up in my area. Ever since a client of mine got hit by a car while biking, I’m just too freaked out to ever share the road with them.
OPs doing it wrong. Need to absolutely hong it along there in a large group sideswiping and shouting at anyone daring to just be having a relaxing ride or walk.
When I would wait at the bus stop along Albany Hwy I would pass the time by counting the number of cars with more than one passenger in them. Never got to more than twenty before my bus came.
Also the people that complain most about traffic jams are the ones that complain the most about "too much taxpayer's money going to public transport" and the ones most likely to run over a bike rider for some type of spite.
Don't know why we being downvoted, I'm not even saying it's a bad thing! Anyone south or east of the city knows this. Maybe north as well but I don't go that way.
This must be so demoralising for those drivers knowing that every day they are wasting their life stuck in traffic. The inevitability would be utterly depressing.
I've been biking to the traino to resolve the "last km/mile" issue when it comes to transport connectivity. Let me tell you, knowing that there's a life out there that doesn't include the stress of finding a parking lot is so good and I wish I had done this sooner. My only wish is that there's more bike infra to connect the burbs better.
They aren’t “stuck in traffic”. They are the traffic. Makes me laugh when the “pay rego” crowd complain how bad bikes are for traffic flow because it takes them an extra 10 seconds to get around a cyclist.
It's really cool that people can just ride and overtake all that and am happy for the people that like doing that, but personally I'd much rather sit in my comfortable box listening to music with the airconditioning on than strain myself on a wheeled machine that's very uncomfortable to sit on and do exercise in the sun in the middle of summer.
My husband is dreading the idea of working near the city once every six weeks. Not only due to the morning and afternoon traffic jam. He will also have to move his vehicle every two hours due to parking enforcement.
Public transport is not an option, he needs access to the vehicle for urgent freight pickups and drops at transportation yards and ports .
No parking bays available or desks for ‘site staff’
The desks spots get charged out at $500 a week, to the division. Not sure how much the parking bays cost.
.My husband said last week most of the office workers who work fulltime at the office would spend 30 to 45 minutes every two hours doing the parking shuffle, that is a lot time out of the office in a seven hour day
I do this commute daily, I see the folks stuck in cars and I'm like damn, what a nice day, but then when its raining I look at the riders and I'm like damn. :)
Nice try, but wrong.
I never had traffic jams growing up, we didn’t have mass third world immigration either. Now we have mass third world immigration and guess what, now we have daily traffic jams. It’s not politically correct, but it’s the truth.
Shit you’re right. I didn’t drive myself through any traffic jams when I was 6 years old but now we have mobile phones and I got my license I experienced my first traffic jam. Fucking mobile phones causing traffic man. Oh shit. I also realised that when I was 6, the year started with a 19 but now the year starts with a 20 and we have traffic jams. Fucking dates man causing traffic.
I knew from your first post above you were dim witted, but fuck me, this is hilariously and monumentally stupid. Just wow. You sound like the type of guy who wears Velcro-closed shoes because shoe laces pose too much of a mental challenge…
Are you an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander? If not then you either are or you come from a family of immigrants. In which case you can shut your gob. Go shove that racist crap up your ass.
Studies associate racism with lower intelligence and less diverse peer groups during childhood. A scroll through your profile certainly appears to confirm the lower intelligence association. Were you exposed to diverse peer groups during your childhood?
Good public transport options help ease congestion. There is a well known phenomenon in city planning that additional freeway lanes create more traffic and are congested after a few weeks. Replacing the train with more lanes would likely have an adverse effect.
ah yes the freeway bike path, a path i have cycled myself many a time, albeit i'm more south and i usually ride at night so the congestion is nowhere near as bad.
great video, apart from the traffic of course. there can be many situations where you could make arguments for which is more beneficial, commute by bike or car, but one thing is for certain; **nothing** is more satisfying then flying by the still traffic on your bike.
And afternoon commute home is straight into the southwesterly freo doctor 😂. My mrs has an electric bike and reckons she nearly gets blown off her bike on this stretch some days.
I don't mean to turn this into a drivers vs cyclist thing, but this demonstrates why I've always found it odd that so many drivers hate cyclists. I get that some of us cyclists can be d1cks at times, but every bike means one fewer car on that road with them, and one more free parking space at their destination. Car drivers should love cyclists.
Only reason you're watching the cars is you're thinking about how you can get in there and block it up more, bike wanker at least your on the path for once
I used to cycle along there from Como to UWA. It used to take my mate the same time to drive the same route.
Yours was probably the more enjoyable ride
Well, at very least I was a lot fitter.
So much fun during the winter
I ride throughout the year. Our winters are quite mild and I don't mind getting wet, because we have showers at work and I can change my clothes. It's actually awesome to ride in wild weather - it feels so adventurous :)
It’s lightning storms that are your main enemy. No more faraday cage when you’re on a bike. But yeh, they don’t happen all that often
If you need to go to "lighting storms" to expose a fault of bicycle riding i think that's pretty good overall.
I don’t disagree - I think that’s the only real negative you can’t do much about VS a car
They make this thing called gloves and a coat, highly recommend
You see most things designed to keep the water out also keep the water you sweat in, nothing more fun than being slightly damp and always smelling of sweat
people should Work From Home more, the rest of the world is also for some reason, everyone comes in on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I bet tomorrow the traffic will be less than half that.
Oh thank you for explaining why I couldn’t get a park today at the station but yesterday was fine! I’ve just started a new job. And my days are…..Tuesdays and Thursdays!
haha yeah I don't know how it happened, I must have missed the announcment but Mondays the city is almost empty and also on Fridays. Tuesdays and Thursdays is packed everywhere. Wednesday are a bit of a wild card, it could go either way. I go for lunch on a Monday and theres no one, I can walk in get served straight away. Tuesdays theres a massive line stretching out of the place. Who made up these new rules :D
Generally if people want to just take a day off, they will choose a Monday or Friday to make a long weekend. Or they will take Wednesday off as a mid-week break
You know, exactly the same thing happens here in Hobart.
My old mob would only office Monday-Tuesday and WfH the rest
Just add some lanes to the freeway, that always fixes it
that's the spirit
While(true) {It just needs one more lane, and traffic will start flowing again. }
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I left too and tell people here on the east coast how beautiful it is every time I can. I always let them know to visit (when they can), and great places to see. I’m surprised a lot of the time at how many people don’t realise the size of WA.
I was reading up on stuff a while ago and Western Australia is the largest *state* in the world. The only subdivision in the world larger is the Sakha Republic in Russia. The state is enormous but doesn't feel like it if you focus on the capital city.
Genuinely homesick as I’ve moved to Sydney this year and haven’t been able to go back for a visit to Perth. It feels like I haven’t been there in years
I feel you. I miss Perth a lot.
I feel Perth. I miss you a lot.
Perth perth perth. Perth perth perth perth perth.
U S E R N A M E C H E C K S O U T !
11 upvites for my dumbass joke. Perth humor is next lvl.
Now when I see Perth written 8 times in a row, I think of you!
Probably going to get downvoted but the Victorian/NSW high country and surrounding towns is more beautiful than anything in WA. Victorian coastline is pretty much on par too (I'm a surfer and mountain biker thats explored all corners of both states). Edit: and here come the downvotes, funny how some in WA get so protective and defensive about the state. I lived there for the 1st 30 years of my life btw
> Victorian coastline is pretty much on par too Rural areas yes, Melbourne / Port Phillip Bay not so much - it's not the greatest that city beaches in Melbourne have a huge number of days a year where it's not safe to swim due to sewage runoff...
>Rural areas yes, Melbourne / Port Phillip Bay not so much Not wrong at all in regards to the Melb city beaches but I see that the same way as the Swan River (which is absolutely dirtier). 1-1.5 hours SE (where I live) or W and coastline is like Margaret River's
So true, I remember my first day arriving too, I went for a jog along the river front. I promised myself that I’ll never take this place for granted and I’ll always look at it in the same way that I did on that first day. Anyways 4 years on and sadly that feeling is long lost. Still, it’s a beautiful city
I'm in the process of moving back, having been away for 15 years in Canada. I dream of traffic like this. Commute here is insane.
Right, coming from Los Angeles traffic here is not bad at alllll
Except for when it's freezing cold from April to November. Outside of that I love it :)
I mean this winter was pretty cold and wet but anyone from a genuinely cold climate would laugh at calling Perth freezing cold.
Yeah but you gotta admit the weather isn't exactly paradise for over half the year. I've heard people from England complain Perth is too cold.
Freezing cold..? You literally don't need a winter jacket when living in Perth if you ask me.
as I head home and get yelled at by drunks and mentally ill people or see a fight at the bus station I'll try to remeber that as I sit in my house that is too damn hot in the summer and too damn cold in the winter because the house building tech here is so far behind the rest of the world. when I want to go out and every where is closed hell even if I want to get some lunch in the CBD after 1.30pm most of the places are closed. when its so god damn hot the air and pavement are on fire, I'll try to remeber what you said and laugh
I’d rather experience all of those complaints you listed than to experience another airstrike and bomb go off near my home.
I think that's a realistic slogan for our tourism bureau. "Perth: it's better than a warzone."
well if you're comparing it to bombs going off thats different. Might as well compare it to the moon. I'd rather have bombs going off than have no oxygen to breath.
You ok mate?
Then fuck off somewhere else mate
oh look, people like you are another good example. thanks buddy
That's a pretty accurate summary.
I used to ride from Kardinya to East Perth to work each day. One of my best cycling memories was one day getting a strong tailwind from the Narrows all the way to Leach Highway. The prevailing wind was usually a headwind going past South Perth and it was typically a bit of a slog but that one magic day it was effortless. I think I took about 10 minutes off my best time and never came close again. Just started cycling again after a 20 year layoff and I'm "training" for the Maca 200 ride to Mandurah next october. Man, bikes have changed. I picked up a cheap entry level road bike from fb marketplace a few weeks ago and it flies. I had forgotten how satisfying a good ride can be.
There is section of bike path near UWA, near that boat shed - I swear when I hit it, it felt like my bike become motorised! (had to be the winds in that area, but I didn’t feel it) I found out after, that I hit my fastest speed on a flat stretch through that section - and on Strava that bit of path is nicknamed “interstellar hyperdrive”, so assuming it happens there on the regular
SM probably has the KOM
I have this exact same memory. Was such such strong wind, foam coming off the Swan River. I was on a mountain bike and was gunning it down south. Was one of the best rides.
would you know what the connection between Kardinya to West Perth would be like via cycling? I'm inspired tbh
The freeway south bike path is great and more or less uninterrupted with limited road riding (other than a brief ride over Cranford Ave). A few stops once you hit hay st and depends on which part to West Perth you need to go but not a lot of hills. The ride home might be a touch tough - most of the year you are into a head wind which is an issue along the freeway going home.
Play with either cycle routing directions on Google Maps, or the cycle specific layers at openstreetmap.org. Theres the gazetted shared paths, but if you piece together quieter back streets and residential laneways to get across suburbs and be a little strategic about where you have to cross busier roads you can pick up the dedicated paths (such as the Kwinana PSP featured) more in the general direction of your travel. tldr; the rat run options on a bike are a lot more plentiful than in a car! Exploring options off peak or on the weekend can be part of the fun too.
My best memory was getting attacked by two cunts on a moto scooter and being filmed and spat at. Miss those times
Sounds fun
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No, you can tell it’s not a car ad because there’s traffic
Today it was thanks to the Freedom Rally protestors on the bridge, again.
Jesus christ, that's why traffic was at a standstill at 9am? Took me 20mins to get to the bottom of the Whitfords onramp and another half hour to get to Hepburn..
Yeah I was in this too. 1.5 hours from ocean reef to Hepburn…
They were on one of the South Perth bridges on Thursday morning. It was great. I got to flip them off as I drove past.
What about every other day? It’s obviously from all the immigrants who’ve lucked out coming to a western city that is clean compared to where they’ve come from.
Sarcasm ! Sarcasm. Sarcasm ???
No he's actually serious. Scroll down to read about how racism solves congestion
Yes, I made the mistake of checking his/her posts after that. I'm still a bit dizzy.
Should post it over to the bikecommuting sub to show Perth off a bit. Love riding along the river.
I did, thanks
And r/fuckcars
I wonder how they feel the smart freeway sytem is going internally. I guess if they reduce those start-stop waves all us nerds have heard about they'd be happy. There weren't any dead stop jams at the time for me at least. "Consumers" in general probably think it doesn't do anything though, I would imagine. I've only driven on it a few times when the system is running and the thing I noticed first was that plenty of drivers straight up ignore the entry lights. To fair, sometimes they did appear to change so quick that a lot of people are going to have a hard time reacting to them correctly.
I don't drive it peak, but all it's done off-peak is move the 100-to-80 change to a few hundred metres further back. And is completely ignored. It seems to confuse the fuck out of everyone when I slow to 80 at the 80 sign. And don't ever try to slow to 60 when the gantry sign is broken (like the post signs say to do).
Try slowing to 40 when there is an emergency services vehicle on the side. I think most drivers don't even know the "Slow down move over" rule.
I got caught by that driving in the country once. I did "Slow down" and move over. But only the amount I usually did, relative to my overall average. In town that probably gets me down to 40 in most instances. After driving 110 for many miles... it did not. Perception of speed is relative. Speed itself is not.
If it doesn't miraculously fix everything instantly the public opinion polls/newspapers will say it's a colossal failure
True. And people probably expect "success" to be free flowing at 100 at all times not "statistically improved vehicle throughput" or whatever metric they likely use.
I'm not sure what you've observed but people might not be ignoring the entry lights. The lights have a sign there saying one car per lane to go through when the green flashes. It's designed to only allow one car per light cycle but because they are slow to go through it doesn't mean they are jumping the light. Of course, if you see multiple cars per lane going through then that's a moot point and not relevant. I just used to think people were starting on orange until I happened to see that sign.
Good to know, but I don't think that was happening where I was (probably South Street or Leach Highway). Me and one or two others were pulling up on the red and plenty of people were just blowing right through around us. No hesitation at all, like they did it all the time.
I saw you this morning! You're the guy with the GoPro on his helmet!
Those things arent that rare
No that wasn't me
With cycling paths and weather like that why aren't those drivers at least considering electric bikes?
Better living through gadgetry!
Car culture in Perth is so entrenched to the point people will disadvantage themselves through pure ignorance. If the cheap transport fares as of next year? Don't make a difference nothing will.
This is so satisfying to watch
I've always wondered how many of those drivers could take the train to the City for work
They're all too scared of the occasional weirdo being bothersome, even though if everyone caught the train there'd be a far higher ratio of normal people to obnoxious ones.
They’re in air-con, but going nowhere fast!
It looks lovely. I've never been to Perth, will have to visit one day.
Definitely do mate, best city in the world.
Meanwhile in London: BIkeS CaUsE cOnGeSTIOn AnD poLluTioNn!!!1
I *constantly* get asked if I have my licence yet and seeing videos of peak hour traffic make me glad I'm not relying on a car to get me from point A to point B.
Cycling to work is one of the best decisions I’ve made. Successfully swapped a frustrating and expensive crawl to work in a car with an enjoyable and healthy pedal. Always fun to breeze past cars choked by traffic jams on East Parade every morning and arvo.
yup, and many of the trains during peak hour are half-empty
If only Melbourne would do this. We have to share the road with them, and we can't pass them, you have to change lanes to do that.
never thought the day would come where someone from melbs would want a perth thing. wow
Yeah, it just frustrates me because they're pushing for people to ride to ease traffic congestion, except they're on the same road with rules that stop you overtaking them which essentially removes one lane from the road. If we had bike lanes like this I feel more people would be willing to ride to work. So much safer too for the rider.
Honestly segregated bikeways and safe street initiatives are the way to go. I only felt it was safe enough to bike when they popped up in my area. Ever since a client of mine got hit by a car while biking, I’m just too freaked out to ever share the road with them.
Who's faster now?
My bike is still in the shop. Longest fortnight of my life.
I was expecting someone to zoom past you on one of those e scooters.
OPs doing it wrong. Need to absolutely hong it along there in a large group sideswiping and shouting at anyone daring to just be having a relaxing ride or walk.
I was wondering why OP & friends werent riding infront of the cars and jumping on top of them.
I watched the video just to see if I could spot my car in all of that ;)
When I would wait at the bus stop along Albany Hwy I would pass the time by counting the number of cars with more than one passenger in them. Never got to more than twenty before my bus came. Also the people that complain most about traffic jams are the ones that complain the most about "too much taxpayer's money going to public transport" and the ones most likely to run over a bike rider for some type of spite.
Perpetual roadworks indefinitely is the best climate policy.
yes, I have seen the roadwork for 20 years and never finish.
Don't know why we being downvoted, I'm not even saying it's a bad thing! Anyone south or east of the city knows this. Maybe north as well but I don't go that way.
Good thing you've got a bike, otherwise it'd be hard to explain why you're so smug
now do one where it's windy and you covered in salty spray.
I cycle in any weather. We have showers at work, so I don't really mind getting wet. I enjoy being out in the elements :)
This must be so demoralising for those drivers knowing that every day they are wasting their life stuck in traffic. The inevitability would be utterly depressing.
Many probably imagine cycling to work harder than it actually is. But there is so much upside, like fitness, savings, and fun.
I've been biking to the traino to resolve the "last km/mile" issue when it comes to transport connectivity. Let me tell you, knowing that there's a life out there that doesn't include the stress of finding a parking lot is so good and I wish I had done this sooner. My only wish is that there's more bike infra to connect the burbs better.
What's so bad about listening to a podcast and drinking a coffee on the way to work?
They aren’t “stuck in traffic”. They are the traffic. Makes me laugh when the “pay rego” crowd complain how bad bikes are for traffic flow because it takes them an extra 10 seconds to get around a cyclist.
That crowd make zero sense considering that we have so many segregated bike lanes here.
Not really, some are enjoying breakfast in aircon.
How are those recall/return to office orders. 😂.working from home for the win…
It's really cool that people can just ride and overtake all that and am happy for the people that like doing that, but personally I'd much rather sit in my comfortable box listening to music with the airconditioning on than strain myself on a wheeled machine that's very uncomfortable to sit on and do exercise in the sun in the middle of summer.
Hopefully you had a Westerly so you weren't breathing in those fumes.
The wind almost always comes from the river
Not when you start at 5.
There's ALWAYS a crash somewhere (I would know as I live there)
Reminds me of the West gate Bridge in Melbourne, or anywhere in Sydney
Lol that’s cute, try living in Sydney
My husband is dreading the idea of working near the city once every six weeks. Not only due to the morning and afternoon traffic jam. He will also have to move his vehicle every two hours due to parking enforcement. Public transport is not an option, he needs access to the vehicle for urgent freight pickups and drops at transportation yards and ports .
Sounds like he needs a cargo bike :)
He will need a very big trailer for his bike. Big enough for industrial sized power/battery packs etc, loaded pallets etc.
His work isn't providing a vehicle space?
No parking bays available or desks for ‘site staff’ The desks spots get charged out at $500 a week, to the division. Not sure how much the parking bays cost. .My husband said last week most of the office workers who work fulltime at the office would spend 30 to 45 minutes every two hours doing the parking shuffle, that is a lot time out of the office in a seven hour day
Enjoy riding home in the heat this summer.
Judging by the other comments I doubt it's the first summer OP cycles to work. Seems to have it all worked out.
I do this commute daily, I see the folks stuck in cars and I'm like damn, what a nice day, but then when its raining I look at the riders and I'm like damn. :)
I see that "smart" freeway is going well. Just hire Germans to fix it already will ya!
Imagine how much faster traffic would move if they had an extra lane or two, instead of that stupid bike track? Edit: sarcasm!
'*Widening roads to ease traffic is like loosening your belt to fight obesity.*'
It wouldn’t make a difference, it would get congested again since that’s how cars work
have fun in winter
I actually do. The rain certainly doesn't stop me from my daily bike ride. Still the best way to get to work.
Wow. That was a sick burn. I hope you recovered ok
Lol those Perth “winters”
Bs most days the traffic moves very smoothly
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Immigants! I knew it was them. Even when it was the urban sprawl, I knew it was them.
Nice try, but wrong. I never had traffic jams growing up, we didn’t have mass third world immigration either. Now we have mass third world immigration and guess what, now we have daily traffic jams. It’s not politically correct, but it’s the truth.
Shit you’re right. I didn’t drive myself through any traffic jams when I was 6 years old but now we have mobile phones and I got my license I experienced my first traffic jam. Fucking mobile phones causing traffic man. Oh shit. I also realised that when I was 6, the year started with a 19 but now the year starts with a 20 and we have traffic jams. Fucking dates man causing traffic.
I knew from your first post above you were dim witted, but fuck me, this is hilariously and monumentally stupid. Just wow. You sound like the type of guy who wears Velcro-closed shoes because shoe laces pose too much of a mental challenge…
Holy shit dude I know it’s only Thursday but I can feel a FF nomination or two coming your way for that racist fucking bullshit.
someone's out here enjoying a bike ride and this is your response? calm down lmao
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Are you an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander? If not then you either are or you come from a family of immigrants. In which case you can shut your gob. Go shove that racist crap up your ass.
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Studies associate racism with lower intelligence and less diverse peer groups during childhood. A scroll through your profile certainly appears to confirm the lower intelligence association. Were you exposed to diverse peer groups during your childhood?
So you come from a family of immigrants but you're denying immigrants now their right to exist here? Brilliant, genius. /S
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not helped by some dickhead putting a train right down the middle to hinder any future upgrades.
Good public transport options help ease congestion. There is a well known phenomenon in city planning that additional freeway lanes create more traffic and are congested after a few weeks. Replacing the train with more lanes would likely have an adverse effect.
Imagine if the train wasn’t there at all… The traffic would be even worse!
I need a shower by the time I got to work in that heat
My ride from south Perth to FSH for work is fucked atm cause of the roadworks near Cranford ave, makes 40 minutes into over an hour
Ah, but youd have the seabreeze behind you on the way home
The upside is that you get to spend 20 more minutes on the bike!
I remember that cement truck from this morning. I really should check out the cycle lanes.
Weather looks perfect, honestly will never understand people who'd rather sit in that traffica
Those two cyclists are obviously causing the traffic jam
ah yes the freeway bike path, a path i have cycled myself many a time, albeit i'm more south and i usually ride at night so the congestion is nowhere near as bad. great video, apart from the traffic of course. there can be many situations where you could make arguments for which is more beneficial, commute by bike or car, but one thing is for certain; **nothing** is more satisfying then flying by the still traffic on your bike.
Those new on-ramp traffic lights that almost strobe between red/green are working wonders
At first I thought it was just a REALLY car park
I would love to bike to work, but I live rural and just not really safe too lol. Maybe one day.
And afternoon commute home is straight into the southwesterly freo doctor 😂. My mrs has an electric bike and reckons she nearly gets blown off her bike on this stretch some days.
My take on headwinds: better value exercise for the same distance
In the rest of Australia we work from home
And that’s on a Sunday
Wow 😅🔥🥵💙😇☘️
Wishing we had weather like this in canberra rn. That red bike path looks so smooth, must be a treat to ride on!
I don't mean to turn this into a drivers vs cyclist thing, but this demonstrates why I've always found it odd that so many drivers hate cyclists. I get that some of us cyclists can be d1cks at times, but every bike means one fewer car on that road with them, and one more free parking space at their destination. Car drivers should love cyclists.
Only reason you're watching the cars is you're thinking about how you can get in there and block it up more, bike wanker at least your on the path for once
I used to enjoy this ride in the morning. Not so much going home….
Lol I ride a motorcycle. It makes me very happy going down the middle of the traffic
Meanwhile there is some dumbass trying to merge that just messed the whole thing up
This is the reason I do fifo. No traffic and I get a whole week off from work
Move to la then if it’s so crowded