BIKESydney is encouraging your support for a petition to the Federal Government to put its money where its mouth is in relation to bike infrastructure and programs. Please add your name to the petition.     In collaboration with BIKESydney and other advocates of active transport, Go! Alliance – headed by former Bicycle NSW CEO, Omar […]

Another leap forward in the inner city cycling eco-system sees the arrival of a bike café in Darlington offering a free workshop, tools and loving expertise. When local Grahame Rowe realised that the City of Sydney would not be installing a street garden bed in front of his old butchery, he and buddy John Azzi […]

The NSW Government has released its final NSW Long Term Transport Master Plan. You can read how BIKESydney and BIKEast earlier sought to shape the Master Plan here. The Master Plan clearly calls for enhanced provision for cycling.  (There are 155 instances of the the word “cycling” [there were 28 in the draft Master Plan], […]

BIKESydney has been advocating for the repositioning of the on-road bike logos in the City of Sydney for about 18 months. Positioning the logos in the centre of the lane helps communicate to drivers that bike riders have a legitimate place in the lane and encourages riders out of the door danger zone. We’re really […]

Last year BIKESydney worked with the Institute for Sustainable Futures at UTS to develop a grant application to investigate interactions between bike riders and bus drivers. City of Sydney awarded the grant and work is now underway. As a first step ISF is surveying riders and drivers. This survey has 12 questions and should take […]

In April 2011 BIKESydney submitted a response to the City of Sydney’s Draft City Plan. Overall BIKESydney was very supportive of the Draft City Plan which we saw as a progressive and ambitious planning instrument. We did have some concerns with elements of its constituent Draft Sydney Local Environmental Plan 2011 (LEP) and Draft Sydney Development Control […]