Petrie to Kippa-Ring shared path
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Petrie to Kippa-Ring shared path
Postby Jash Rider » Sat Sep 24, 2016 9:30 am
It's got several gentle slopes which are not at all difficult to ride up, and are great fun to coast along on the way down. One thing I really like is the effort and expense they've gone to in making it a visually attractive ride. There's lots of native shrubs planted along the path and water ways which were once swamps have been made into rather nice looking man made ponds. Wildlife has already moved in (swooped by Magpies at three different locations) and there's a nice dotted white line down the middle to remove any confusion as to where you should be on the path when approaching other people using it.
There are many entry and exit points along the way, and each train station has a sign giving you the distances to every other station on the line.
I give it an 8/10 rating as there are some parts of the ride where you must deal with traffic (not ideal if you are riding with small children), and there's several sections where you will have to deal with people leaving train stations at busy times, but all in all it's a top experience that allows you to ride safely and easily for a decent distance.
You could easily spend several hours riding this path and discovering the places it leads to.
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Re: Petrie to Kippa-Ring shared path
Postby foo on patrol » Sun Sep 25, 2016 6:27 am
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Re: Petrie to Kippa-Ring shared path
Postby grt046 » Sun Sep 25, 2016 10:23 pm
Photo shows the start of the path at Kippa Ring Station
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Re: Petrie to Kippa-Ring shared path
Postby Jash Rider » Wed Sep 28, 2016 12:21 pm
I really like that for almost all of the ride your are very well separated from motorized traffic. You can ride without having to worry about being the next statistic for cycling deaths in Australia.
And if you go early in the morning there's nobody using it so you can just flat out hammer it! Hit 50kph this morning between Kallangur and Murrumba Downs stations. Not a soul in sight.
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Re: Petrie to Kippa-Ring shared path
Postby Ryanhyltoncummins » Wed Sep 28, 2016 12:51 pm
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Re: Petrie to Kippa-Ring shared path
Postby sevencoughnine » Tue Oct 04, 2016 12:40 am
http://www.brisbanenorthbug.com/wp-cont ... orkMap.pdf
I notice that Google Maps hasn't yet incorporated the full path into walk or cycle route plans.
I'm trying to work out the best channel to submit updates and change requests through.
Any ideas?
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Re: Petrie to Kippa-Ring shared path
Postby sevencoughnine » Tue Oct 04, 2016 12:53 am
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Re: Petrie to Kippa-Ring shared path
Postby mikesbytes » Tue Oct 04, 2016 9:07 am
Looks pretty goodsevencoughnine wrote:Moreton Council has a brochure showing the rail and the shared path here:
http://www.brisbanenorthbug.com/wp-cont ... orkMap.pdf
I notice that Google Maps hasn't yet incorporated the full path into walk or cycle route plans.
I'm trying to work out the best channel to submit updates and change requests through.
Any ideas?
Is the railway new or an upgrade of an existing track?
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Re: Petrie to Kippa-Ring shared path
Postby RonK » Tue Oct 04, 2016 9:59 am
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Re: Petrie to Kippa-Ring shared path
Postby mikesbytes » Tue Oct 04, 2016 9:32 pm
I'm guessing that the rail corridor was allocated 100 years ago.RonK wrote:100 years in the making.
Good to see that QLD is building their rail infrastructure and good to see that they are also putting in bike paths in conjunction
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Re: Petrie to Kippa-Ring shared path
Postby RonK » Tue Oct 04, 2016 10:26 pm
In fact, in the early 90's I had a house nearby when it was decided that the line would never be built, so quite a bit of it was sold off for housing development.mikesbytes wrote:I'm guessing that the rail corridor was allocated 100 years ago.RonK wrote:100 years in the making.
Good to see that QLD is building their rail infrastructure and good to see that they are also putting in bike paths in conjunction
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Re: Petrie to Kippa-Ring shared path
Postby piledhigher » Tue Oct 04, 2016 10:38 pm
Melbourne has a better one, planned in 1890, rail to Doncaster is now planned for 2027.RonK wrote:100 years in the making.
There was a box hill to Doncaster tram built in 1892 that had:
There was some opposition from locals who objected to construction of the tramway on the grounds that it would supplant the need for a railway to Doncaster and bring ‘undesirable tourists’.
and that closed in 1896..
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Re: Petrie to Kippa-Ring shared path
Postby mikesbytes » Wed Oct 05, 2016 8:08 am
Does that mean its shorter than the original corridor permitted? Was the developer related to any of the Councillors? If so its a pity, would of permitted for a longer bike path even if they didn't build the tracks.RonK wrote:In fact, in the early 90's I had a house nearby when it was decided that the line would never be built, so quite a bit of it was sold off for housing development.mikesbytes wrote:I'm guessing that the rail corridor was allocated 100 years ago.RonK wrote:100 years in the making.
Good to see that QLD is building their rail infrastructure and good to see that they are also putting in bike paths in conjunction
That happened in Sydney around 2000? They wanted to extend the train line from Bondi Junction to Bondi Beach but the locals didn't want to improve access to the westies, as they would of referred to thempiledhigher wrote:Melbourne has a better one, planned in 1890, rail to Doncaster is now planned for 2027.RonK wrote:100 years in the making.
There was a box hill to Doncaster tram built in 1892 that had:
There was some opposition from locals who objected to construction of the tramway on the grounds that it would supplant the need for a railway to Doncaster and bring ‘undesirable tourists’.
and that closed in 1896..
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Re: Petrie to Kippa-Ring shared path
Postby RonK » Wed Oct 05, 2016 12:47 pm
I don't think it would have affected the length, but it did affect the location of a station.mikesbytes wrote:Does that mean its shorter than the original corridor permitted? Was the developer related to any of the Councillors? If so its a pity, would of permitted for a longer bike path even if they didn't build the tracks.
It was a state government decision so I doubt any councillors were involved. But it would be no surprise if the developer was related to the state government somehow.
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