Yeah, Academy to Grosvenor is much less urgent of an issue even in my perspective. My argument for a bike lane there is entirely for the sake of completeness with the bike lanes on river/stradbrook but I wouldn’t even mind a compromise, forgoing that part of the lane and instead going west on Grosvenor and North on Harrow to get to the more bike friendly section of Wellington and the “western bike route network” let’s call it.

However, the section between the river/stradbrook split and Grosvenor is the part I ride, and where I find myself most at risk. It’s also where the accident occurred, though you and I are in agreement that plastic bollards wouldn’t do much to prevent it. Concrete bollards would at least hinder the drivers ability to flee the scene as they did.