Today was the Victorian government budget day. I was really hoping there would be something for active transport, but I did assume if there was then it would have been part of an announcement last week.
It looks like there is nothing for active transport at all in this budget.
Those in the know have said there was only $3.6m allocated to two small Strategic Cycling Corridors projects for the entire of Victoria.
We should expect an announcement about these projects next week.
Bicycle infrastructure is cheap, but it's not that cheap. This is fucked!
In other news, they allocated $5m to inspect and enforce petrol prices at petrol stations.
@nickzoic yeah, hopefully. But freeway aligned cycling infrastructure is the most expensive and least useful cycling infrastructure.
It's largely only useful for recreational or long distance commuters which are a vanishingly small number of people.
Jesse
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