November 2022
The Australia Institute’s Climate of the Nation Report 2022 has revealed Australians’ widespread support for improving active transport, amongst other important decarbonization policies.
Take the long way home – Footscray Road closure
The Footscray Road trail will close this Friday at 10am and remained closed over the weekend.
Tassie Bike News Bites
In this Bike News: Rail Trails Australia is looking for a new Tasmanian rep, the inaugural Cygnet Cycling Festival hits the ground running, detours in Granton and South Hobart community celebrate their ebikes.
Social rides start cycling back
COVID travel restrictions means we’ve had jam-packed summer social ride calendars over the past few years but now that the restrictions have eased we are going back to normal conditions, which means our social rides will start to become fewer in the lead in to Christmas.
A glimpse of Tas bike holidays past
Keen bike rider Richard Langley has sent us what’s left of the letters his grandfather Don Charlwood wrote to his wife’s Canadian relatives about their cycling trip around Tasmania in 1947.
A new rail trail? Yass please!
The Yass Rail Trail has received its first pot of funds from the NSW Government, the first step towards making the rail trail a reality.
Active school travel grows after Open Streets trials
Bicycle Network's recent Open Streets trials at Moreland Primary School, in partnership with Merri-bek City Council, has had a positive impact on active travel amongst kids.
Olympic cyclist Sarah Gigante joins the Great Vic Bike Ride
Sarah Gigante will join school groups on Monday 28 November as they pedal from Noorat to Timboon in south west Victoria on the Great Vic Bike Ride 2022.
Active travel for Commonwealth Games Villages?
Planning is now underway for the 2026 Commonwealth Games in regional Victoria and key questions to be addressed include what the athlete villages will be like and will there be active travel for these active people.
Libs promise new bridge at Walmer Street
A second, new bridge has been proposed for the congested Walmer Street crossing of the Yarra between Kew and Abbotsford on the Main Yarra Trail.