Sydney CBD Commuting question

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Is there a way to get from Elizabeth St at Central to the start of the Harbour Bridge cycle path without encountering 40 sets of traffic lights, 200 buses, 500 Taxis and countless suicidal pedestrians? Is there a quick way? Please.:)
 
500 mtrs longer than Kent St, but a bit more scenic:

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But yeh, agree with Dreggsy, it's all bad!
 
Not sure if this will be any quicker but no lights that can't be run safely:

Eddy ave
right onto george
left onto tram/light rail tracks
right onto darling drive
right onto Darling harbour footbridge
follow footbridge to corner of king & sussex
turn left onto sussex
right onto napolean
left onto clarence
head straight up clarence to bridge cycle way entrance


from memory should be less than 10 sets of lights this way, can pretty much go flat chat the whole, joining clarence at 2nd last set of lights.
 
I know I'm not answering the question here...

But hats off to all you Sydney CBD riders. I've been commuting in Melbourne for nearly 20 years now and I reckon I aged about 100 years in the month that I lived in Sydney for work. I was staying in a serviced apartment on the outskirts of the CBD and working in the Telstra building in the middle of town. Nothing quite like head checking as you're riding along and seeing a bus that apears to be wider than the lane you're riding in, bearing down on you with no discernible intention to avoid you...

Melbourne drivers are in some respects more arseholish, but the narrowness of the streets in Sydney scared the bejeezus out of me.
 
I work in Elizabeth Street Central.

Here's the best route - and I dare anyone to find a quicker safer route! (BTW its a route the couriers use!)

Down Elizabeth St to Hay Street. Follow the light rail (tram line) down past Pitt St and then George St. At Haymarket jump onto Habour Street and follow it as it turns right at the Syd Entertainment Centre. Keep going straight along that road as it passes Darling Harbour and the Aquarium - stay in the left hand lane and eventually a shoulder appears. Exit at the King Street Wharf entry, keep going straight until Erskine Street and turn right. Go up Erskine (a small climb) to either Kent or Clarence Street near Wynyard Station. Follow either road north to the Bridge entry point (although if you are lost here, there is no hope!).
 
I just do Pitt St to Market St, onto Clarence, then to the Bridge. Not too many lights, Pitt St is one way so mostly ok and the cars have the same problems with pedestrians as cyclists do so don't go so fast.

With pedestrians, I just give them a wide berth and are super alert with them coming off footpaths.
 
The CBD riding is not so bad, especially when it blocks up a bit. The cars aren't going anywhere anyway so no one seems to mind you ducking and weaving a bit to get through. It is all part of the picture now.

It is on the Northside of the Harbour Bridge that the drivers scare me.

That being said, if you want to avoid the traffic go around it, I would make a bee line down to Darling Harbour, duck past the Ent. Cent., ride between the Chinese Gardens and the Convention Centre. Then go either left or right of the harbour.

Left:

Go past the Maritime Museum and over the Pyrmont Bridge, down the walkway/cycleway to the left, then sussex/Hickson, Taking the left off Hickson to Observatory Hill.

Right: Follow the water until you go past Squires, turn right up the ramps and up the road, and then left onto Hickson, and you are laughing.
 
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