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Originally Posted by Jim Goose
Try going up Castle Hill here in Townsville in the afternoon.
1000s of **************... er walkers walking up a single lane public road.
For those that don't know the hill is about 400ft high and very near the coast right near the city heart, so its a popular tourist vantage point.
I recently drove up the hill on 5pm (i forgot how stupid people are here) and there was 100s of people, 4 to 5 abrest walking up/ down the road not giving a toss that cars are coming.
All these yuppie morons "exersizing" just didnt give a damn a car was approaching and it was incredibly dangerous. Very few bothered to get out of the way. There was dozens of people with dogs, kids running round all over the place, people pushing prams etc.
Most these idiots also had ear phones on so cant hear cars coming up near them.
Worse still are the idiots on push bikes who reach sppeds of 80km and hour despite the fact there are speed humps everywhere and a 40kmh speed limit.
I almsot collected one on the way up.
The stupidity that these people show on the road as pedestrians in beyond a joke.
The amount of times I was told to slow down be these morons started to make my blood boil. At most i was doing 45 uphill, but the downhill is a problem as even with the auto locked in 2nd gear, I would have to ride the brakes quite heavy the whole way down to remain under 50kmh.
Yet these idiots still walked infront of you!!! And then whinge and moan when you pass them too close?!?!?!
Surely if people walked out on a main road in the middle of a lane to job they would be met with Police or an Ambulance. Not to mention hundreds of abusing drivers.
Yet because they all claim the hill as "theirs" they think its their right to walk in the middle of a one lane steet winding road!!
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The 'road' up castle hill is considered a shared zone, and there are proposals being made to make it more pedestrian friendly.
IT IS NOT A MAIN ROAD! Its a no through way for starters, + the amount of traffic is minimal. The council and residents consider it an avenue to allow tourists to reach the summit and the fitness community use it for their regimes.
Blaming them for having to ride your brakes, my god. The road is bloody treacherous in places, why would you need to travel any faster down it?
I don't see how this adds to the topic. Typical.
Can't stop pedestrians having a brain fart and forgetting that cars hurt, so not much can be done apart from lower limits, more education, (and fencing roads off to them completely).
Pedestrian deaths are quite a large contributor to the road toll, even more than motorcyclists at times.
Here in Brisbane they,ve dropped the inner limit to 40 to combat this problem.