It is everybody’s right to have a safe journey to their destination regardless of their method of transport. Knowing the rules and following them is essential for all path, road and trail users to ensure safe and enjoyable journeys!
WestCycle, the Road Safety Commission and the riding community have developed guidelines to promote safer riding on our roads. Creating a more harmonious and safer riding environment helps more people choose riding as their preferred mode of getting around.
These guides will help riders better engage with other road, path and trail users in a positive manner.
The benefits go wide from health and wellbeing, traffic congestion, community cohesion, and environmental outcomes, while saving you vehicle running costs – and often time not spent on congested roads or stuck in life-sapping traffic jams!
The Best Practice Guides do not outline road rules – they communicate principles that you won’t find in a rulebook, and we hope that they are widely adopted within the cycling community. With this in mind, in consultation with numerous stakeholders, we have developed a series of ‘Best Practice Guides’ to riding. The project was made possible through funding from the Road Trauma Trust Account.
We’ve put together a guide aimed at people who ride in groups. It’s to help make group riding safer and more enjoyable for everyone. Many groups have their own set of riding standards, and this guide is not designed to replace them. It is, however, about defining best practice for groups to adopt or modify to suit their individual needs.
Our shared path network is bigger and busier than ever! With more people riding bikes, eBikes, eScooters and other eRideables – alongside people walking, running, or rolling with pets, prams or mobility aids – it’s vital that everyone looks out for one another. Just like on the road, we all need to be alert, courteous, and predictable to keep things flowing safely.
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.
Independent Director
Helen is a Town of Cottesloe councillor and is the current Chair of WestCycle’s Transport Advisory Group.
A medical doctor, Helen is a strong active transport advocate with a focus on health outcomes and social well-being.