cycling in the inner west is a death wish anyway.
some of the city cycleways are also garbage if you ride clipless pedals as well, uphill through the west-east section of the CBD coupled with traffic lights on terrible timings, on the uphill sections every 100 metres. plus it just stops when you cross pitt street - and there's no space to ride anyway. wouldn't be so bad if people didn't have a pathological hatred of blokes riding pushies, i don't even bother in the city anymore. you just get absolutely slammed for space, not pleasant at all.
the CBD and most of the inner west just isn't a nice place to ride. it could be if they built a path with the inner west light rail (which they didn't), and in tandem with the parra rd and anzac pde metro (which they wont't)....but we are dealing with baird and his idiot mate duncan gay here. common sense doesn't always reign supreme.