wellington_street wrote:I believe Rutland Ave will now be a 'bicycle boulevard' (refer Shakespeare Street, Mt Hawthorn or Leake Street, Bayswater for examples) rather than any separated infrastructure.
From the website you linked:
The Town is now partnering with the Department of Transport to investigate the implementation of a bicycle boulevard concept from Great Eastern Highway to Miller Street. It is anticipated that the Town will be able to present options to the community in the second half of 2017 for comment.
That's a different section of Rutland Ave. There are 3 sections of Rutland Ave (plus a section of Goodwood Parade) that require bicycle infrastructure in order to complete the section of the Armadale Line PSP that is promised by 2023. Section 1 is Welshpool Rd to Oats St and that is the section I believe they have the WABN construction grant for in the 2017/18 financial year under the heading "Rutland Avenue Segregated Bike Lane". Welshpool Rd to Oats St is unsuitable for a bicycle boulevard treatment due to the high percentage of heavy vehicles using that stretch of road due to there being a number of warehouses along that section, with the majority of the traffic being TNT courier box trucks going to and from their distribution centre. The existing road is also wide enough that you easily have space for 2 good-width cycle lanes and bi-directional traffic.
GEH to Miller St is the third section requiring bicycle infrastructure (with Oats to Miller being the second section) but GEH to Miller is considerably more space constrained than the other sections of Rutland Ave (it is particularly constrained from GEH to Vic Park station), with insufficient road reserve to have on-road cycle lanes and bi-directional traffic or to have an off-road PSP unless you build significant retaining structures (Bikewest's 1996 design has 2.0 to 2.5m of limestone pitching required continuously from GEH to the old Vic Park station site and the recent works through this section as part of the Perth Stadium Transport Infrastructure project will have only made this worse). This is the section that they are investigating the bicycle boulevard concept for as a cost saving measure to avoid the need to build the retaining structures.
The WABN grant application rules say that construction projects need to be presented with a detailed design in order to be eligible for a construction grant so there should be a set of detailed design drawings for whatever is covered by the "Rutland Avenue Segregated Bike Lane" somewhere out there.
Anyway you slice it, it appears that the Armadale Line 'PSP' will have plenty of variety with a PSP from Beckenham station to Welshpool Rd, "segregated bike lanes" from Welshpool Rd to Oats St, ??? from Oats St to Miller St, a Bike Boulevard starting somewhere between Miller St and GEH, a PSP along Goodwood Parade and Riversdale Rd before finally connecting in to the GFF PSP (which should be getting a hand-rail modification under the Windan Bridge to increase the height up to the current standard).