Opinion
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Tenuous Infrastructure – The Sequel
Adelaide’s Bad Decision is Just a Symptom of Deeper Issues
Australia’s Turn Next?
When Will Our Governments Start Joining the Dots?
In this article I’ll look at two recent decisions by two different governments, that are equally disturbing for a slightly differing set of reasons.
Banning Scooter Trials: Andrew Constance has deep roots in the Bega region on NSW’s far south coast. In the 1860’s his great-great-grandfather, James Constance, drove a team of bullocks through the Bega Valley and settled there as a bush pioneer until his death in 1912. Andrew Constance told this story in greater detail during his maiden speech to the NSW parliament on 21st May 2003.
In that same maiden speech he said, “The broader policy questions about the environment mean surely it is time to dare our Government and citizens to consider every option…”
We Don’t Need These Killers in Australia!
What’s the Future of Micromobility in Australia?
By Justin McCulloch* Over the past five years, Australia has had a strained relationship with micromobility. We’ve seen everything from the ongoing COVID-19 bicycle boom, to the rise, fall, and return of e-scooters in many cities around the country, to street trees and rivers being used as parking for cheap dock-less bicycles. Whether it’s because…
What Will a Biden Presidency Mean for Micromobility?
I write these words on Sunday 8th November, (Australian time) moments after Joe Biden claimed victory in the 2020 USA presidential election. Once the initial euphoria of his supporters dies down and the real world landscape comes back into view, what effect will this new presidency have upon cycling and micromobility, not just in the…
Is It Fair We’ve Virtually Legislated the Necessity to Own a Car?
By Christian Haag* Decades of transport planning policy that has given the car unchallenged primacy of place has proved and continues to prove destructive to our social, economic, physical and environmental wellbeing. Decades of ever-expanding suburbia, with little or no thought put into affordable, sustainable transport solutions other than to drive, locks us all into…
Four Children Killed, ‘Riding Bikes’
Why Micromobility Deserves Government Support
I’ve always been an analytical type of person. Show me the numbers! Then I’ll make decisions based upon the data There’s nothing exceptional in that. It’s what every good bike businessperson does day in and day out when they’re deciding what to order, what prices to charge and a host of other decisions. Theoretically our…