case study – canberra.bike

Safety is all in the mind

Are parked cars the better bollards. Berlin safe street survey

Perception of safety is important to cycling.

Go Dutch: the Propensity to Cycle Tool

woman riding bicycle, Photo by Alesia Kazantceva on Unsplash

Making sensible cycling investment: we not only need to know what good cycling infrastructure is but also where to build it. The UK Propensity to Cycle Tool determines where routes are need most. Canberra could learn something here. Watch the video.

Riding in Canberra is manageable but not on the road

This example is for Belconnen but the conclusions are likely to be pretty similar in most town centres. This small case study concludes riding in Canberra is manageable. The direct routes on the map demonstrate this: not too far and pretty flat. However, all direct routes are on the road. The roads in Canberra are dangerousContinue reading “Riding in Canberra is manageable but not on the road”

Cycling between Whitlam and south Belconnen

Whitlam from the east boundary fence, The Pinnacle Offset Area, The Pinnacle, Belconnen

The children of Whitlam could ride to school rather than be driven.

Active travel between Whitlam and Denman Prospect

Butters Bridge, Molonglo Valley, Canberra.

A case study of two independently planned developments that are of particular interest to active travel in the Monlonglo Valley.

The bike infrastructure in Wright and Coombs

The suburbs of Wright and Coombs are new suburbs finished since 2015 and as such showcase the design principles for suburb development. For new suburbs, good bike infrastructure begins and ends on the designer’s drawing board. Once the suburb is built it is set in stone. I would conclude that a coherent network of continuousContinue reading “The bike infrastructure in Wright and Coombs”