Meet State Election Candidates – Brunswick & Pascoe Vale Meeting # 1 – ALP Candidates – Jane Garrett & Christine Campbell 7:30pm, Thursday 26th August 2010 Edinburgh Castle Hotel, Brunswick (in the private dining room out back) RSVP: ms.phuong.l@gmail.com Dear Moreland BUG, Come hear from your state political candidates on their stance on cycling issues. At the Moreland BUG we believe there is a lot that can be achieved for cyclists and cycling infrastructure by state government. We have therefore invited the candidates from the major parties contesting the upcoming November state election to come and meet with the BUG. It will be an opportunity to hear from each ...
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Radical craft group, Craft Cartel, alarmed by sights of fluoro lycra clad cyclists and equally aghast at the thought of coming a cropper while partaking in our favourite form of transport, present High Viz Vogue. High Viz Vogue is a DIY bike fashion workshop to keep the cops and the fashion police happy. Bring helmets and any other clothing bits you’d like to make roadway and catwalk friendly, or just start from scratch using our materials. With guidance from ultra-spunky local designer, Miss Viz, this is your chance to create your own bike friendly fashion and win ace prizes. Led by Sugar ...
Dear BUGees You are invited to an informal launch of the EB Shimmy. It’s happening next Tuesday, 8 June at 10am. Location is Amess Street at the Capital City Trail: Melway 29 K10 There will be a short speech from Mayor Stella Kariofyllidis and Carlo Carli MP followed by a photo opportunity for the press. Hope to see you there Nicholas Nicholas Elliot Transport Projects Officer Moreland City Council
Dear Moreland BUG members, More people than ever are riding in Coburg, Brunswick and throughout the inner north of Melbourne. It’s great to see so many cyclists on the road. However, with the days getting shorter it’s time to check your batteries and upgrade your bike lights so you can ‘Be Safe, Be Seen’ cycling this winter. To legally ride at night, your bike needs a bright front and rear light (visible from 200m) and a rear reflector. Moreland Council and local bike shops are working together to make it easy for you to upgrade your lights. Throughout the month ...
The next Moreland BUG ride is scheduled for the 13th and 14th of March and we will ride the Lilydale to Warburton Rail Trail! The distance is 38 km each way. The rail is mainly flat and there are lot’s of stops along the way (a gentle rise over Mt Evelyn – trains don’t climb so well eh). We plan to stay overnight in Warburton and ride back to Lilydale on the next day. They have a lovely campsite in Warburton, right next to the Yarra River. Cabins are also available and there are a few Bed & Breakfasts in Warburton. We ...
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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Dear Moreland BUG bods Bicycle Victoria will soon be going live with their registration page to sign up as a counter for Super Tuesday, their annual bike count, this year to be held on March 2nd. They’re always looking for more counters and it’s a good thing to do. You need to be at your nominated spot from 7–9 am, and count away, watch the sun rise, and support cycling through recording the ever-increasing bike numbers. You can also help the Moreland BUG, if you nominate it for the $50 reward that can go to a club or school. This is Moreland ...
Aduki in association with Naked espresso/Basil Pizza will be having a VEGAN BAKE OFF on the 14th Feb at 126 King Street, Newtown. Doors open at 2pm, entries accepted until 2.45pm, judging from 2.50 to 3.20pm and winners are announced at 3.30pm, with entries consumed until 4pm. This is also a perfect time for any of you Sydney siders to come and say hello. That’s right, I’m flying up there especially for the event. If you’re feeling a bit hesitant about entering or attending, may I direct your attention to the photos from the Great 2008 Aduki Bake-Off. Fucking amazing, a broad ...
Brunswick Cycling Club Inc. are holding an evening of racing at the Harrison Street outdoor velodrome. Everyone is welcome to come along and watch a good night’s racing, and enjoy the BBQ! When: Saturday, December 12, 6pm – 8pm Where: Harrison St Velodrome, East Brunswick Full details on the club’s website and in the attached enduro flyer.
The Melbourne Bicycle Film Festival kicks off this week and runs to the end of the month, with a range of film events (surprisingly , art shows, parties and rides. Local events are happening over the creek at Human Powered Cycles and in Brunswick at Commuter Cycles. Full details are on the Film Festival website.
The Fawkner Festival is being held on Sunday 15th November this year between 11am and 4pm at Mooma Park, McBryde Street, Fawkner. The Fawkner Festival is a community festival with music, stalls, food, children’s activities and rides. The Festival is organised by a committee of residents and representatives of local community groups. The Moreland Bicycle Users Group is intending on holding a stall at the event and require volunteers to help out. We need people to help set up, at least two people at the stall at any one time and people to help pack up the stall. If you could volunteer ...
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 ...
Just a reminder that the Moreland BUG’s annual general meeting is scheduled for this Thursday night (October 22nd, 2009) at the Edinburgh Castle Hotel (cnr Albion St & Sydney Rd) at 7pm. The agenda for the Annual General Meeting will be: Confirm minutes of the previous Annual General Meeting Presentation of financial statements by the Committee, detailing the transactions of the Group in the preceding financial year Elect the next Committee of Management Receive and consider the statement submitted by the Group in accordance with the section 30(3) of the Association Incorporation Act (1981), covering details such as income and expenditure in its last ...
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 ...
Dear all, The Moreland BUG’s Annual General Meeting will be held on Thursday 22nd October 2009, in place of our normal monthly meeting. One of the purposes of the meeting is to elect a committee of management for the next year. I invite and encourage all BUG members (which includes all subscribers to this email list) to consider nominating for a position on the BUG committee. As someone who has held a role on the Committee since its inception, I can recommend it as a great way to be active in a fantastic community group, and to contribute to better outcomes for ...
During 2009 I have been building what I think is now the largest collaborative blogging project in Australia. I’m really excited to have published a series of 10 local news sites for inner city Melbourne. The final two, for the inner west (Flemington, Footscray, Kensington, Seddon and Yarraville) and the inner south east (South Yarra, Prahran, Windsor, Toorak, Armadale and Malvern), are now live. I have some minor improvements to make, and a few extra suburbs to add to the sites, but they are now all running the current version of WordPress and all have the latest version of the FeedWordpress aggregation plugin, ...
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 ...
In my ongoing project of building local news sites for inner city suburbs, I’ve contacted over 150 Melbourne bloggers and amateur content creators who publish blogs or dynamic sites with content management systems that provide RSS or Atom content feeds. As individuals, these citizen journalists focus on their chosen topics or niches. Together, their output provides the most diverse and prolific discussion of life, art and business in the areas represented by the local news sites. The location based content published by commercial print media is trivial in comparison. The most popular topic by far is food: eating out at restaurants ...
I have completed the initial phase of my plan to build local news sites for the inner city suburbs of Fitzroy and North Fitzroy, Carlton and North Carlton, Brunswick and East Brunswick and Collingwood and Abbotsford. I’m in the process of contacting over 100 Melbourne based online content creators and publishers and asking them to add suburb categories, tags or labels to their posts that are about events or experiences in those suburbs. About a quarter of the sites I am contacting already had, or have recently added, suburb metadata. Almost everyone who has responded has been keen to contribute. I have ...
The following is from the Moreland Greens’ Mike Puleston: Moreland Council will be sponsoring a Public Meeting on the proposed East-West Freeway at Brunswick Town Hall on Sunday April 13 at 2.00. This will follow the Cyclovia, [pictured] when Sydney Rd will be closed to motor vehicles from Bell St to Brunswick Rd for the [...]
