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Category: safety

By woodfloats Posted on 2021-02-26

ACT Road Safety Action Plan 2020-2023

Reports can be disappointingly inaccessible. Unfortunate, when the topic is important.

Categories:safetyTags: Belconnen, Braddon, movement and place, Safe System
By woodfloats Posted on 2021-02-252021-02-25

Killing speed: road improvements

The ACT Government endeavours to make roads safer. This is the way it has been done up until now.

Categories:safetyTags: Chapman, Charnwood, Chisholm, Evatt, Fadden, Fisher, Fraser, Girralang, Gowrie, Holt, Kaleen, Kambah, Macarthur, Richardson, Spence, Stirling, vulnerable road users, Wanniassa
By woodfloats Posted on 2021-02-242021-02-24

Death through indifference

Protecting cyclist on ACT roads needs to be made a priority.

Categories:safetyTags: Pedal Power ACT, vulnerable road users
By woodfloats Posted on 2021-02-212021-02-22

Scooting trouble

An e-scooter scheme in the ACT is troubled by the casual nature of the riders.

Categories:safetyTags: active travel, safety, scooter
By woodfloats Posted on 2021-02-21

Bike lane optional

I am often disturb by drivers tendencies to spread beyond the space allocated to them. Particularly bike lanes are excellent for parking.

Categories:safetyTags: Belconnen, Southern Cross Drive
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com
By woodfloats Posted on 2021-02-112021-02-13

Cyclist lucky to be alive

The follow-up to a horrific collision on Coulter Drive in 2020 where a cyclist was hit by a car.

Categories:safetyTags: collision, Coulter Drive, Pedal Power ACT, video, vulnerable road users, William Hovell Drive
By woodfloats Posted on 2020-10-15

ACT Coroner: poorly maintained path contributed to the death

The cyclist Dr Teresa Foce died on a poorly maintained path, awash with gravel. The ACT Government needs to show more responsibility.

Categories:ACT Election, safety, urban planningTags: cycling infrastructure, death, Pedal Power ACT, safety
By woodfloats Posted on 2020-09-202020-10-03

Road rules for cyclists

Poor road markings and poor motorists make a cyclist’s life difficult.

Categories:safetyTags: Australian Road Rule 153, cycle lane, MIS05, On-Road Cycling Route, road design, road ride, road safety, safety
Old Canberra, Black Mountain, Lake Burley Griffin. Photo by Jacques Bopp on Unsplash
By woodfloats Posted on 2020-09-172020-10-02

Black Mountain Peninsula opened again

Closure of a major bike path for resurfacing.

Categories:safetyTags: Belconnen, Black Mountain, cycling infrastructure, Lake Burley Griffin, maintenance, Molonglo Valley, safety, Weston Creek
Photo by Josh Hild on Pexels.com
By woodfloats Posted on 2020-09-082020-09-25

ACT Policing focusing on vulnerable road users

Vulnerable road users are pedestrians and cyclists that can be fatally injured in a collision with a motor vehicle.

Categories:safetyTags: road safety, safety, vulnerable road users
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com
By woodfloats Posted on 2020-08-232020-09-08

Australian cycling safety 2015

Not recent but recent enough to be useful.

Categories:safetyTags: road safety, safety, vulnerable road users
Photo by Vladimir Blyufer on Pexels.com
By woodfloats Posted on 2020-08-192020-09-25

Cycling: safety in numbers

The safety of cyclists grows with awareness.

Categories:safetyTags: Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, safety, statistics

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