Seventeen Mile Rocks Road Pedestrian and Cycle Access
The Sinnamon Park Residents Progress Association is most concerned about this very dangerous situation and have appealed to Council to urgently provide a safe travel corridor for pedestrians and cyclists in this area.
Situation
The Sinnamon Park Residents Progress Association, the Sustainabale Jamboree community group, and others are seeking your support to call for urgent action by Brisbane City Council in relation to the dangerous conditions recently created along busy Seventeen Mile Rocks Road. The dangerous conditions have arisen suddenly with the closure of a privately owned service road between Oldfield Road and the roundabout at Counihan Road.
For decades, the service road has been open for public walking and cycling. The new owner fenced it with barbed wire in April 2008 citing liability concerns as the reason therefore.
The community is now left without an important connection to schools, parks, bus stops, cycle paths, shops, aged care facilities etc. Children and adults are forced to walk on a narrow verge close to heavy traffic and cyclist risking their lives on the road which is too narrow for a car to overtake cyclists safely.
Action
The Sunstainable Jamboree community group did run a petition which collected 900 signatures.
Outcome
Council has responded to the petition, investigated and is now planning to build a pedestrian and cycle path along the western side of 17 Mile Rocks Rd (between the closed old service road and 17 Mile Rocks Rd). Cr Bourke advises that funding for this path would be sought from the budget review for construction early 2009. An excerpt of the letter Council wrote to Sustainable Jamboree about the decision can be found on their website: http://sustainblejamboree.org