The southern link of Better Bike Connections project (Waurn Ponds to the CBD) will be on the Geelong Council agenda for the 30th April council meeting!!! The Council is likely to decide on the layout of the high street section (separated or shared) and potentially the route of the Moorabool street section. The project (if…
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The Geelong Council are planning at bike path along High street Belmont as part of a larger bicycle connections project that will link Waurn Ponds to Geelong. There is a campaign by some people/traders who want to protect some car parking on High street at the expense of your safety. You have the opportunity to influence…
Get behind our biggest bicycle infrastructure project ever! The Building Better Bike Project project will create two large new major cycling routes . The southern link will connect Central Geelong with Waurn Ponds via Belmont. The western link will connect Central Geelong with Herne Hill, via Geelong West. These projects will make it safer and easier for people…
The Geelong Council are asking which ideas are most important for our region – Transport is part of the mix so make it high priority and take the survey.
An excellent path in North Geelong along the rail line is a model for future path development in Geelong… It’s a great example of how shared paths should look – wide, seperated, smooth and shaded. This needs to be extended from the city (as we’ve dreamt about before) to onto Lara.
We’ve been doing some hunting around the Geelong Heritage Centre to find out about the fabled Geelong bike plan from 1977… Well… We found heaps of info and have put up some of it on our new Geelong bike plan 1977 page. More coming soon, including an album dedicated to it in our facebook page.
We’ve made a tentative start into recording the people, places and moments of Cycling in Geelong with a Wikipedia page. Take a look at Cycling in Geelong on Wikipedia. We’ve also created a page for the Ted Wilson trail. It is only a start and they will need contributions from people like you to make them great resources. If you have…
Are Godzilla roads swallowing up cars and drivers by the dozen?! It’s easy to blame a piece of asphalt for killing people… But it’s really about vehicles, speed and humans. We applaud TAC, Vicroads and the Addy for this awareness campaign they are on. We hope that those agencies can see the sense in taking…
Here we often talk about all the aspects of riding around Geelong… But we rarely touch on climate change – this big fat hairy gorilla will be the biggest challenge we face as a residents of planet earth over the next 25yrs… Of course everyone knows bike transport is zero emissions and encouraging it is…
Rankin st Herne Hill is a different type of street than Geelong is used to. It’s a street perfect for riding through, learning to ride, skating, scooting, dog walking or even playing cricket. It’s a that gives everyone a chance to enjoy. It’s not just for vehicles like all the others. Why aren’t there more…