One of the few remaining pieces of the so-called pop-up bike infrastructure trial* is some separated bike lane fragments along Marine Parade. There was a consultation on making those changes permanent in 2024, with results from the consultation due to be released in November 2024.
Consultation results STILL haven't been released. Port Phillip BUG members have been asking about this repeatedly: to DTP, to Active Transport Minister Gabrielle Williams, and to our local members Nina Taylor and James Newbury.
Finally, Minister Williams has replied to one of our queries.... to say that they are "working through the results".
We're not holding our breath!
#cycling #melbourne #StKilda
*so-called as many of the changes such as curb outstands were about improving walkability, more than improving cycling. More about the pop-up trial here: https://www.ppbug.org/bug-blog/2024/7/23/new-data-pop-up-infra-was
Guest speaker at the MAY BUG meeting will be Elliot Fishman, from the Institute for Sensible Transport. Elliot has written a report for Austroads on Increasing active transport mode share.
(This talk is re-scheduled from March.)
"Across Australasia, an increasing number of state and local governments have identified the need to reduce car use and increase walking and cycling levels. Despite this interest, transport data shows that there are no widespread or sustained increases in active transport mode share in Australasia. The project principally focuses on interventions to grow active transport and provides coverage of the effectiveness of different intervention types to increase walking and cycling mode share."
Tuesday 6th May; short BUG meeting at 6.30pm; talk from 7pm. All welcome. Cora Graves Community Centre 38 Blessington St, St Kilda.
https://sensibletransport.org.au/project/increasing-active-transport-mode-share/
Advice requested: our webpage, hosted on squarespace, used to have a twitter feed on the homepage. Now I'd like to replace that with this masto feed. I tried with tagembed, but that didn't update. Is there an easy way of doing this?
A great history episode of the Yarra BUG radio show, talking about the history of Bicycle User Groups in Victoria. Including a shout out to the Port Melbourne group.
Paul McKay says that it was important to get early wins, to keep the energy up.
The Port Phillip Bicycle User Group has had 2 incarnations: it re-booted in the 2010s, under the much missed Georgie Fyfe-Jamison.
The BUGs were set up by the Bicycle Institute (precursor org to Bicycle Network), but then "voted off the island" (divested from BN) in the early 2000s. In recent years we've begun to work more closely with BN.
A really interesting show, worth a listen!
Critical Mass is Friday 28th March. Ride in with Port Phillip Bicycle Users Group-- meet at St Kilda Town Hall 4.40pm. Late to the start? Find us on the map https://www.criticalmaps.net/map#13/-37.8296/144.9379. This month we're heading out to Boroondara.
#melbourne #CriticalMass #cycling
https://criticalmass.melbourne/
Macnamara Candidate Forum on Climate and Energy
PECAN and GECAN, two Climate and Energy community networks within the Macnamara electorate, have once again organised a Federal election forum on Climate and Energy. It features candidates from two major political parties, Josh Burns, ALP, and Sonya Semmens, The Greens. The Liberal candidate declined our invitation to participate.
The event will be moderated by Jo Chandler journalist and senior lecturer from the Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne. We will commence proceedings with a guest speaker Dr Kimberley Reid, Climate Scientist, The University of Melbourne. She will be followed by introductory comments from the candidates. The floor will then be opened for questions from you, the audience.
7 – 9pm Tue, 1 Apr, St Kilda Town Hall
Free tickets:
https://events.humanitix.com/macnamara-candidates-forum-2025-climate-and-energy
