The Upfield bike path has been registered for Clean Up Australia Day, Sunday 7 March from 10 am – 12 pm! Tammy, the Environment Education Officer at Moreland Council, is organising a clean-up along the bike path between Albion Street and Reynard Street and she’s hoping some other cyclists who regularly commute along the path may be interested in helping with the clean up. This is a public event, anyone is welcome. The meeting point on the day is Albion Street just east of Anstey Station. Gloves, bags etc will be provided. Details of this and other sites are on the Clean Up ...
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Courtesy of Chris Anderson and Nicholas Elliot, here is the route for the Brunswick East Shimmy, and work that needs to be done to improve the route:
News from Kylie Huard, Strategic Transport Planner, Moreland City Council: Council has erected a temporary detour in place on the Upfield path near Duckett Street due to an unsafe factory wall abutting the path. The detour keeps being removed which is endangering all path users. Council has issued a notice to the building owner to install water filled barriers across the path with proper detours in place, however due to the holiday period and the building owner overseas, it has been difficult to get action. We are hoping that the barriers will be installed tomorrow, with a detour in place via Breese ...
News from Kylie Huard, the Strategic Transport Planner at Moreland City Council: Just wanted to let you know that we’ve been successful in our application for a $160,000 grant for the East Brunswick shimmy. This brings our bicycle budget to over $1 million this year! The route links Canning Street to Barrow Street via East Brunswick, and consists of a variety of treatments including refuges across Brunswick Road and Glenlyon Street, contraflow lanes, path widening and surface improvements and wayfinding. I just wanted to thank the BUG for their support with our submission.
Hume City Council is helping to facilitate the establishment of a Hume Community BUG. The BUG will organise rides and social events, campaign and advocate for cyclists needs, and work to improve the local cycling network and generally promote cycling in the community. It is also a great way to meet other cyclists and make new friendships The inaugural meeting of the Hume BUG will take place: 7pm, Wednesday 11th November 2009 Hume Global Learning Centre, 1079 Pascoe Vale Road, Broadmeadows (opposite the Broadmeadows train station) A light dinner and refreshments will be served (please RSVP for catering purposes). For more info and to RSVP, please ...
The City of Yarra has released their Draft Yarra Bicycle Strategy 2010-2015. The deadline for submissions to the strategy ends this Thursday 22 October 2009. Please forward your comments to Council’s Co-ordinator Transport Mark Kulyk c/o Yarra City Council, PO Box 168, Richmond 3121 or at mark.kulyk@yarracity.vic.gov.au.
Wednesday 14 October 2009 is National Ride to Work Day, a day to celebrate cycling. Across Australia, work places and community groups will host Ride to Work Day breakfasts to reward people who choose the healthy commute. Last year Moreland City Council hosted a community breakfast in Victoria Mall which attracted around 100 cyclists. This year is going to be even bigger with community breakfasts in three locations across Moreland. 1. Capital City Trail: Velo Bike Hub – Cnr Nicholson Street and Capital City Trail If you head down Nicholson Street or the back streets of Brunswick East, be sure to stop at the ...
Some good news: On 8th July the Moreland Council adopted the 2009/10 budget with the proposed $820,000 spend on cycling intact. BUG is extremely pleased to see an increased expenditure compared to last year’s reported spend of $711,000, particularly given that this increase was approved in a tough economic climate and in a budget where rate increases were reduced significantly. I think this great outcome is testament to the strength of the ever-growing cycling community in Moreland. The BUG will be working hard to make sure the cycling spend continues to grow over the coming years, to help Moreland realise its full ...
The Moreland BUG has just recently received the draft document for the options study, survey and design of “On Road Bicycle Path Infrastructure” in Brunswick by Cardno Grogan Richards for the Moreland City Council. Have a read of the documents and tell us what you think!
The Moreland Bicycle User Group is due to meet this Thursday 25th June 2009. The monthly Moreland BUG meeting will be held at the Browns Corner Hotel (corner of Bell St and Sydney Road, Coburg) following the conclusion of the council meeting. The group will hold the meeting in the dining/bistro section of the hotel. Keep an eye out for a group of people with bicycle helmets.
It’s been brought to my attention that this month’s BUG meeting coincides with the Council Budget submissions hearing, which will be held at Coburg Civic Centre from 6pm, Thurs 25th June. So the committee has decided that we will not hold a formal BUG meeting this month, but that instead we will encourage as many people as possible to come along to the submissions hearing. Even if you don’t wish to speak, it’s great to have a good strong show of cyclists there – it shows councillors that there is a big and active cycling community in Moreland. Afterwards, those who are ...
Moreland Council will be holding a special meeting on the evening of Thursday 25th June to accept verbal submissions and comments on their draft 2009/10 budget. Come and support the increase to the budget for cycling facilities in Moreland. Put it in your diaries! ————————– Moreland Council 2009/10 budget verbal submission: commencing at 6 pm on Thursday 25 June 2009 at the Municipal offices, Bell Street Coburg ————————– For more details of the budget, check the Moreland Council website. See you there!
