Infrastructure
This category includes any product or service that enables micromobility.
Taking Lanes on Key Melbourne Arterial Road
Melbourne / Victoria Many Melbourne residents and some visitors would be familiar with Heidelberg Road which is one of the main arterials that radiates out from the city to the suburbs. Heidelberg road is wider and faster than many of the inner city arterials, with three lanes in each direction on the scenic first stretch…
Wider Bike Paths in Commonwealth Avenue Bridge Upgrade
Canberra / ACT One of Australia’s most famous and photographed bridges is about to get a $137 million upgrade. The Commonwealth Avenue bridge spans Lake Burley Griffin, linking the city centre of Canberra in a direct line towards the flagpole at the centre of the federal parliament house. Pedestrian pathways will be widened and vehicle…
Autonomous Vehicles – Will Active Transportation Rights Prevail?
Washington DC / USA Many people think that autonomous vehicles are still decades away, but with major trials already running, critical policy debates are being held right now that will determine the rights of other forms of transport in an autonomous world. Ever since Cities across the USA started to implement measures to make them…
New Bill Could Mean Massive Growth in Bike and Scooter Share
Washington DC / USA With the change of government in the USA all micromobility advocate eyes have been upon the new administration including Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. But the first major step of what advocates hope will be many positive steps towards growing all forms of active transportation and micromobility has come from a much…
Australia’s Oldest Bike Share Scheme to be Axed… Then Upgraded
CityCycle in Brisbane is Australia’s largest and oldest bike share scheme. The scheme was founded 10 years ago when the Campbell Newman lead Brisbane City Council signed a deal with French multinational advertising signage company JCDecaux. Under the deal, JCDecaux took over the lucrative exclusive rights for advertising signage throughout Brisbane’s street furniture and buses…
More Pop-Up Cycleways Announced for NSW
Further to the first six pop-up cycleways already constructed that we wrote about here, on 23rd November 2020 Transport for NSW announce plans for a further 14 projects across Sydney and regional NSW. These include the local government areas of North Sydney, Randwick, Inner West, Parramatta, Woollahra, Newcastle, Shoalhaven, Eurobodalla, Goulburn and Wollongong. You can…
USA Public Volunteers US$1 Billion for Cycling
In the USA, just like Australia, motor vehicle transportation receives the lion’s share of government transportation funding each year, with public and active transportation left to share the crumbs. However, unlike Australia, in the USA they have systems within their lower levels of government (state, city and county) in which propositions which exceed certain support…
Where Does Your City Rank in Cycling Friendliness?
In an Australian first, cycling advocacy group We Ride Australia has applied a new tool to score every Australian capital on the ability to travel by bicycle between key local destinations. The Bicycle Transport Analysis (BTA) project was developed by We Ride’s partners in the USA and uses open source, publicly available data. More than…
Netherlands Reduces Default Speed Limit Nation-wide… 30 is the New 50
On Tuesday, 27 October 2020, a majority in the House of Representatives approved a plan to introduce a standard limit of 30 kph in built-up areas, replacing the previous 50 kph. Their objective is to reduce road casualties, specifically in areas with schools and strong concentration of children. Esther van Gardere, CEO of Fietsersbond, the…
Remarkable Turnaround for Symbolic College Street Bike Path
Five years ago, one of the most heavily used protected bicycle paths in Australia that had been built at a cost of five million dollars, ripped out by an anti-cycling Roads Minister. The state was New South Wales, the path was along College Street in the CBD of Sydney and the then Minister for Roads…