Posts Tagged ‘advocacy’
Concrete Changes, Not Changes to Concrete, The Secret to Road Safety for All
Adelaide, SA This column by Bicycle SA CEO Brett Gillett appeared recently on the advocacy group’s website. We thought it was worth reproducing in the Micromobility Report, with Brett’s permission. If you drink and drive, you’re ‘a bloody idiot!’. If you throw a wild swing at someone, you’re not delivering a ‘king hit’, you’re inflicting…
Better Streets Appoints Campaign Co-ordinator
Sydney, NSW A recently established Better Streets coalition for NSW received a major boost this month, with the appointment of a campaign co-ordinator. Manly resident Dominic Nevin, 27, has been appointed to the new full-time role with Better Streets, which was formed late last year to provide a framework to help advocacy groups, businesses, GPs,…
Membership Drive to Forge Path for Better Streets
Sydney, NSW A new Better Streets active transport advocacy and support group is on a membership drive as it prepares to target the NSW election in March. Better Streets is aiming to sign up at least 1,000 individuals and organisations in NSW – including actions groups, businesses, schools and health providers – to its active…
Opening the Floodgates to Highlight Imbalance Endangering Cyclists
Ontario, Canada Canadian Tom Flood made a huge impact with his presentation at last month’s Micromobility Conference & Expo in Sydney. The man behind the powerful messages and images is revealed in this issue of our influencers! transcripts, as we continue to look back at Series 1 of the influencers! podcast series. Tom worked in…
influencers! – Oliver Bruce
Some people seem to live on a higher plane than most of our routine suburban lives.If you look at Oliver Bruce’s resumé he certainly seems to qualify for that category. After an eclectic global education, Oliver has held a wide range of roles including strategic advisor, corporate manager and angel investor. He’s also one of…
influencers! – Fiona Campbell
Fiona Campbell is quietly and calmly spoken and rather small in stature. She’s also quite happy to stay out of the limelight. But when it comes to being a true influencer, Fiona is a giant. She’s highly respected by her colleagues and peers. But even those that might be trying to block her progress and…
influencers! – Lena Huda
Lena Huda has only lived in Australia for a couple of years so far, but has already had more influence here than many achieve in their lifetime. Despite being a busy mother of four young children spaced just two years apart in age, since arriving here, Lena has thrown herself into full-time advocacy work. She’s…
New Bicycle SA CEO Getting Back On Bike
influencers! – Tom Flood
Tom Flood lives in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He’s spent his career in the advertising industry as a ‘creative’. For years a large part of his work was creating campaigns for the auto industry, even though through much of this time he was commuting to work on a bicycle and facing a hostile environment caused by…
Cycling’s $6.3 Billion Injection to Australian Economy
Canberra, ACT Australia’s cycling industry directly contributed $3.4 billion to the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2020 and had a total direct industry output of $6.3 billion for the year, according to an Australian-first report spearheaded by the We Ride Australia cycling advocacy group and released last month. The We Ride Australian Cycling Economy…