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A person rides a bicycle around the Grand Prix circuit at Albert Park, with the blue and white Melbourne signs at the side of the track.

Grand Prix fans offered free bike parking

Bike riders know the best way to get to any big sporting event in Melbourne is on two wheels, and Bicycle Network is offering an extra incentive to ride to the FORMULA 1 LOUIS VUITTON AUSTRALIAN GRAND PRIX 2025 in March – free valet bike parking.
Three people ride on a painted bike lane with white bollards in the road to their left, with a blue parking meter on the footpath to their right and traffic in the road alongside the lane.

We need to move more but our streets aren’t helping

Alison Hetherington from Bicycle Network and Dr Verity Cleland from the University of Tasmania's Menzies Institute for Medical Research wrote an opinion piece for The Mercury newspaper on 10 July 2024 about the importance of active street design.

Active transport grants help the choice to ride

Bicycle Network has welcomed the Tasmanian Government’s announcement today of active transport grant recipients across the state. “Safer cycle paths to get people to work, school, shops and services are essential if we are going to give people transport choices,” Tasmanian spokesperson Alison Hetherington said. “We know more people would ride for transport if there [...]