Cycling is good for Canberra and makes our city people-friendly. There are so many good reasons for cycling. Now is the time. The benefits of cycling from the Dutch Cycling Embassy.
Category Archives: safety
Making our cities feel safe so that we are encouraged to cycle and walk instead of taking the car.
Prediction: more bikes but more cars too
The cycling boom is most welcome, but Covid-19 has discouraged the use of public transport as well. We are now more likely to drive to work. Roads are dangerous for cyclists. It is not surprising that many cyclists will not ride to work.
E-scooters: falling between the cracks
E-scooters are very different from the toys that we had kids. Both powerful and fast, they fall a crack between vulnerable road user and motor vehicle. E-scooters are stumbling on a lack of a good, national legal framework and technical standard. It puts riders and businesses at risk.
Canary in a coal mine: motoring down peafowl
It is not just cyclist that feel like roadkill. Motorists are mowing down peafowl in Narrabundah close to a Primary school. Will a child be next?
ACT Road Safety Action Plan 2020-2023
“Road Safety. It’s Everyone’s Responsibility.” The ACT Government’s focus on road safety. The report is disappointingly inaccessible, considering the importance of the topic.
Killing speed: road improvements
One of the ways to protect vulnerable road users is through road improvements. The ACT Government endeavours to make roads safer. This is the way it has been done up until now.
Scooting trouble
An e-scooter scheme in the ACT is troubled by the casual nature of the riders. Scooters have safety problems and the motivation for riding them are quite different to that of bike riders.
Road rules for cyclists
Poor road markings and poor motorists make a cyclist’s life difficult. A marked shoulder is easily mistaken for the bike lane which creates confusion. More about Australian Road Rule 153.
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. Road Policing is reminding drivers that distractions greatly multiply the risks of something going wrong.
Section 4.3 Australian cycling safety 2015
Not recent but recent enough to be useful.
