BIKESydney

Bikes & Buses as Buddies

  “…If you want to go, wave hello and let me know”   Extending from our initiation of the investigation in early 2012, BIKESydney recently participated in a workshop aimed at improving road interactions between bikes and buses. The workshop was funded by the City of Sydney (CoS) and facilitated by the Institute for Sustainable [...]

Bridge Bike Path Re-Design

The State Government is about to re-design the Sydney Harbour Bridge’s southern precinct on the back of needing to remove the now disused tool booths. However, there is no plan to upgrade the bike path at the southern approach to the Bridge. BIKESydney has made a submission to the Sydney Harbour Bridge Southern Toll Plaza [...]

Free Bike Parking at Goulburn Street Parking Station

From Tuesday 2 August 2011, the Goulburn Street Parking Station will have free secure bike parking. Swipe cards providing permanent access, 24 hours a day, to 28 securely caged spaces on the ground level are available on payment of a $20 deposit. Casual users can visit Daniel Cresswell on site and get a temporary pin [...]

National recognition for City of Sydney’s bicycling vision

The Australian Bicycling Achievement Awards have recognised Clover Moore for her achievements towards developing the 200km Sydney cycleway network. Sydney’s Lord Mayor received the Award for Contribution by a Politician  at a ceremony in Canberra yesterday and attended by federal parliamentarians and representatives from national organisations and peak bodies in health, transport and the bicycle industry. [...]

CoS Community Matching Grants: Promoting Cycling

The City of Sydney are holding briefing sessions about their Community Matching Grants. If you’ve got an idea that will promote cycling in the city drop in and see if it’s suitable for the Matching Grants Program. Sessions are: Wednesday 2 March 12.30pm-1.30pm or Thursday 3 March 5pm-6pm at Level 4, Town Hall House, 456 [...]

Temporary minor disruptions to College Street North Cycleway

One lane of the College Street Cycleway North of Park St will be temporarily closed to carry out some minor works. During 14 to 18 February: The wall will be sanded, grouted and have existing chips repairs. During 21 to 25 February: Once the wall is complete, pavers will be laid in front of the [...]

Cargo Bike Library racks up 2,000 km

This week the Watershed Bike Library hit its first 150 days of operation. We love stats and we thought we’d share the numbers with you – they’re pretty impressive for such a small library. On average, the library had two bikes out on loan on any given day. The 77 members have taken out the [...]

Open for business

Just before Christmas a raft of cycleways and paths were open in the City of Sydney. The full extent of Kent Street Cycleway Stage 1 (Harbour Bridge Ramp to Druitt St) is now open. In 2011 the City of Sydney will complete the extension of Kent Street: including the southern extension between Druitt to Liverpool [...]

City proposes new cycling projects

On Monday 29 November the City of Sydney Cycling Implementation Team will present an update report to council committee on the implementation of the Cycle Strategy.  It outlines the current status of infrastructure and other projects; the current route planning and prioritisation; and introduces the Streetshare Strategy (formerly known as “Enabling Cycling” or behavioural change strategy) [...]

Clearways and 40km zones coming to a street near you

On 15 September the City of Sydney’s (CoS) Traffic Committee unanimously approved the proposal to introduce peak hour clearways ["No Stopping" zones] on several of the city’s main roads. The details of the proposal – including a map – can be viewed here. [Note that the map's highlighting of the affected area of Park St is incorrect. [...]