BIKESydney

Bike-friendly Apartments

Following on from our 2012 submission, we’re excited to see that we’ve influenced the Government’s thinking about apartment design and the need for better integrating storage space for items like bikes.  We’re calling for your ideas with view to further improving the Policy. PlanningNSW has just released an summary of its draft SEPP 65 Policy […]

Know Your Rights

  Knowing your legal rights as a rider can change the way you ride.  In partnership with the Redfern Legal Centre, BIKESydney has developed Pedal Power, an advisory website aimed at informing cyclists of their rights. With a view to making the resource as useful as possible to existing and would-be riders, we’re opening up […]

How to get Utility Companies to play fair?

…Don’t rely on the intervention of the government and approach them directly of course. It’s long been the bane of Sydney riders that freshly-laid infrastructure – a kerb ramp, shared path, a road re-sheet or even a cycleway –  is undermined by a trench-dig of one of the big utility (water, gas, electricity) companies.  Riders […]

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 […]