Ticket to ride! Subsidised bike and scooter rentals win over low-income users
People on lower incomes use shared bikes and scooters like they use public transport if the price is right, researchers have found.
While you might ride BMX for sport or for fun, WestCycle still works with other people to make sure there are good facilities and infrastructure for BMX riding, and to help BMX riding grow in Western Australia.
While you might ride BMX for sport or for fun, WestCycle still works with other people to make sure there are good facilities and infrastructure for BMX riding, and to help BMX riding grow in Western Australia.
People on lower incomes use shared bikes and scooters like they use public transport if the price is right, researchers have found.
WA’s best junior bike riders gave the new Mooro-Beeloo Bridge BMX/MTB pump track the thumbs up as the $1m facility was officially opened by Transport Minister and Deputy Premier Rita Saffioti.
The WA Government is not resting on its laurels when it comes to the State’s world class trails network, with a fresh round of trail grants announced worth almost $1 million over the next three years.
Michael Voros is a keen bike rider who counts the complete Munda Biddi Trail as his greatest bike ride (13 days), believes everyone has a role to play in better cycling infrastructure – from orgs like WestCycle to individuals who care about how they get around.
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Elected Director | Off Road
Tim has been in senior leadership and strategic development roles for more than twenty years. He is currently Director of Executive Education in the School of Business and Law at Edith Cowan University and is a past Assistant Commissioner and General Manager in the public service. He is an Accountant (FCPA) and sits on the Divisional Council of CPA Australia.
Tim has been involved in racing mountain bikes, BMX and triathlon for many years, both as a father of two children who race and as a past and current bike racer. Tim is the current over-50 State Champion in downhill mountain biking. He is also a very regular and enthusiastic transport cyclist; frequently seen in a suit and tie riding to meetings in the city on a mountain bike.
Chair | Governance & Risk Committee
Denise Sullivan has a career spanning over twenty years in senior management and executive roles in the state public and not-for-profit health sectors.
In her usual role of Director Chronic Disease Prevention with the Western Australian Department of Health, she leads the development of state chronic disease and injury prevention policy and planning frameworks and contributes to the shaping of the national preventive health policy agenda.
Her professional interests cover many aspects of chronic disease and injury prevention encompassing health communications, health promotion and research, public policy on health and workforce planning and development.
She has a particular interest in furthering collaborations with other sectors with a mutual interest in promoting a more active and healthier WA community, and creating and sustaining environments that support this. Denise is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Leadership WA Signature Program, and an Associate Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management and the Australian College of Health Service Managers.
Denise is a recreational cyclist and recent convert to mountain biking (although trainer wheels still on!).