Posts Tagged ‘Brisbane City Council’
Lime Returns to Brisbane with Expanded Fleet.
Brisbane Queensland More electric scooters will soon be on Brisbane streets, as the city’s original scooter hire scheme operator prepares its return this year. As part of a new deal with Brisbane City Council, San Francisco-based Lime will provide 1,700 e-scooters and 400 e-bikes. They replace Neuron as one of the two approved share scheme…
Maximum Speed Halved for Queensland Scooters
Brisbane, Queensland Speed limits will be halved for e-scooters travelling on footpaths in Queensland, under a range of measures announced by the Minister for Transport and Main Roads, Mark Bailey, last week to encourage safer use of scooters. The speed reduction, to 12kmh, will be accompanied by mandated safety measures, a safety education campaign and…
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…
Brisbane CBD To Install Separated Bike Lane Trial Immediately
Over the past decade the Brisbane City Council has spent more money on cycling infrastructure than possibly any other local government in Australia. But this is not so impressive as it might sound for two key reasons. Firstly, at over 1.2 million residents, it has by far the greatest population of any Australian local government…