[jokamoto]

Based on the maps and Street View imagery, I only see one potentially safer road nearby (C727/C725; C726 is just as narrow). Other roads in the area are either dead ends (a problem for obvious reasons) or unpaved (a problem for a large share of recreational riders on traditional road bikes).

[nickzoic]

The climb up from Whittlesea is impressively direct in places on a pushie. I've seen plenty of people do it, but it is a different kind of ride and I'm not going to try it any time soon ...

I like his GIS work, but there is no conceivable way that there were only 3 pushie accidents on that road in 7.5 years so sorry VicRoads but I doubt the dataset is accurate.

Funny to see my neighbourhood on HN :-).