📅Usually last Friday of every month
📍5.30pm, State Library, Swanston St, naarm Melbourne
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🚲More safe cycling infrastructure now!
📅Usually last Friday of every month
📍5.30pm, State Library, Swanston St, naarm Melbourne
📅Usually last Friday of every month
📍5.30pm, State Library, Swanston St, naarm Melbourne
Yarra Bicycle Users GroupNew! @3CRMelbourne podcast: Catching up on the Elizabeth Street bike lanes & other musings, Faith & Val on QLD e-bike safety issues, who's responsible for Strategic Cycling Corridors in Victoria & 15 minute cities - how urban design entered the culture war https://www.3cr.org.au/yarrabug/episode/catching-elizabeth-street-bike-lanes-and-other-musings
Catching up on the Elizabeth Street bike lanes and other musings
Val and Faith kick off the show with their bike moments and collectively appreciate the recent shift to autumn. We chat about the recent death of two teenagers in Queensland on an 'e-bike', although its hard to know much about the circumstances at this point. We also remind listeners that the Elizabeth Street protected bike lanes are being ripped up this morning ahead of the re-sheeting of the road and the rebuilding of the lanes in a narrower, less safe configuration. When will the State Government take responsibility for Strategic Cycling Corridors?
Elizabeth Street Protected Bike Lanes: A history 1993-2026, countering false narrative there has been, to broadly quote, ‘no community consultation’ in relation to these lanes or issues raised by community members or accessibility concerns. Yeah it's long ...
https://www.yarrabug.org/elizabeth-street-protected-bike-lanes-a-history/
Elizabeth Street, Richmond update: Yarra Council rips up bike lanes – “Road Safety” Minister lets it happen. Strategic Cycling Network Design Guidelines ignored!
Jesse'Advisory bike lanes' are a bad design.
They're something that road planners made up after confusing advisory lane narrowing markings on roads in the Netherlands for bike lanes.
They use people riding bicycles as the traffic calming measure which clearly doesn't provide protection to them and actively endangers them.
You can see them implemented on Napier St in Fitzroy, and they're the worst part about Napier St (which is made quite nice by the modal filters)
Advisory Bike Lanes
Works to narrow the Elizabeth St Bike lanes in Richmond are starting on Monday 16th March.
Sadly I'm sure this will be a surprise to a bunch of people that use this route and haven't engaged.
This route is used by 1000 people on bikes every day.
The bike lane is being narrowed from 2.1m to 1.5m but that 1.5m includes the unrideable gutter.
RE: https://aus.social/@yarrabike/116207788204315102
Update: Save Richmond's best bike lanes before Monday - now includes Gabrielle Williams, Minister for Active Transport.
Keep sending those emails everyone, you're doing great!
Save Richmond's best bike lanes before Monday: Send a message to Melissa Horne - Elizabeth Street protected bike lanes downgrade to start 16 March 2026
New @3CRMelbourne podcast: Introducing the Parkville Gardens Bike Bus. News includes impacts from another fossil fuel conflict, Super Tuesday Bike Counts, St George's Road water main collapse + more
https://www.3cr.org.au/yarrabug/episode/introducing-parkville-gardens-bike-bus
Introducing the Parkville Gardens Bike Bus
On this weeks show, Chris talks to Aaron Moon about the Parkville Gardens Bike Bus that rides every Friday morning during Term 1, a fun, active way for kids to get to Flemington Primary School together. The bike bus is a collab with several groups including Flemington Primary School, Moonee Valley Bicycle Users Group, Active Transport Moonee Valley, Dr Crankys, Ellen Sandell and City of Melbourne.Learn more: Bike Bus World, Bike Bus Toolkit (WA), Zero Carbon Merri-bek: Ride to school on a Bike Bus!