Bicycle and Pedestrian Access
The bridge has a footpath on both sides of the bridge. The path on the west side is under a meter wide, much too narrow to cycle on. The path on the west side in listed as a shared cycle path, but it is also only 1.7m wide bound between a low barrier with a steel hand rail on the road side and a 2m fence on the drop side. These barriers make the effective path about 1m wide for two way cycle and pedestrian traffic. Austroads minimum standard for a shared path is 2.5m, plus 0.4m to 1m clearance from barriers.
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