WestCycle Subscriber e-News: September 2024
Latest happenings from the peak body for all forms of bike riding in Western Australia.
Can We Make Orrong Orright?
Main Roads WA is consulting stakeholder organisations and the public as it tries to work out how to make Orrong Road right again. Or, at least, less wrong…WestCycle Active Transport Manager Dr Georgia Scott is hopeful…
WestCycle Subscriber e-News: August 2024
Latest happenings from the peak body for all forms of bike riding in Western Australia.
Active Transport Update: August
This month, I spent time with hundreds of fellow transport enthusiasts at the Australian Institute of Traffic Planning and Management Ltd (AITPM) National Conference, that was held this year in Perth. And more…
What happens when governments prioritise active transport?
Welsh MP Lee Waters MS has been at Parliament House in Canberra discussing how his government drove massive active transport change – including 20m/h (32km/h) limits in all built up areas across the nation.
Fed Govt invests $350m in urban infrastructure – Cycling projects could benefit
The Australian Government has made $350 million available to boost community infrastructure in lower-income suburban areas – cycling projects could benefit.
56 groups across Australia unite to call for urgent target-based transport reform by 2035
If Australia is serious about decarbonising transport, it must quickly establish strong and effective targets, 56 groups have urged.
Central Perth to get a criterium track?
WestCycle is engaging the government to incorporate a criterium track into a proposed Supercars street circuit at Burswood Park.
Zig zagging through tight budgets: City of Kalamunda explains Kalamunda Road changes
City of Kalamunda says new works are an ‘interim measure’ to improve safety, but a cycling lane remains a long way off on Kalamunda Road
“If you build it they will come”: Unlocking active travel’s potent potential
WestCycle Board Member Ben Swan explains the role WestCycle and WA’s broader bike riding community is playing in creating change away from car-centrism and toward safer, better connected communities.
