Clover Moore, the Lord Mayor of Sydney, is an advocate of people travelling round the city by bicycle rather than by private car. Most streets of
the City of Sydney (which is only a small part of the Sydney metropolitan area) were formed in the 19th century before cars and roads upon which to drive them and places to park them became an issue.
As part of cycling encouragement, a network of dedicated cycleways is being constructed. A two-way cycleway occupies one road lane, which removes scope for parking from one side of the street or in streets where there was no parking anyway, removes one traffic lane.
The hostility and venom that the project has attracted from motor vehicle owners are truly astonishing. One local radio shock jock called it "one of the most disgraceful projects that I have witnessed in all of my time in public broadcasting". Apparently there has been a similar problem in the Lithuanian city of Vilnius, where motorists ignore the purpose of bike lanes and park in them regardless. Mayor, Arturo Zuokas,
has a solution:
He drove a tank over the top of an illegally parked Mercedes. The owner of the car is unlikely to forget now that parking in bike lanes is
wrong.
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