Harrison Watt
@harrisonwatt.bsky.social
Advocating for sustainable cities and active transport 🌳🚲🚶🏳️🌈
The truth is Yarra Council will not negotiate the E‑bike Share Scheme Tender, including a better deal for council or ebike/escooter corrals, on-road parking etc, in exchange for *any* car parking spots. It's short term vindictive politics. Meanwhile in NSW: www.nsw.gov.au/ministerial-...
The Age (unofficial)@theage.nzcow.com · 3w ago📢 Yarra City Council claimed e-bike operator Lime is “taking the mickey” out of ratepayers by failing to punish illegal parking, footpath riding, and drunk users.
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Ask your local MP to support dedicated funding for Strategic Cycling Corridors. It's only going to take 5 cents in the transport dollar!
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Great news out of the UK. A record £4.5b (AU$8.6b) investment over the next 5 years in walking, wheeling and cycling. New targets with 55% of short journeys in towns and cities to be walked or cycled by 2035. 5,000 new walking, wheeling and cycling routes and 10,000 safer crossings by 2030.
BoM warning: 3 June 2026. Coastal Hazard Warning for Abnormally high tides across Victorian coastlines. (Sharing because where some paths/trails tend to get built...) www.bom.gov.au/warning/coas...
yarrabike@yarrabike.bsky.social · 2mo agoIs the Capital City Trail flooded? Reminder about handy little site where you can check status and self report on shared paths around Melbourne 🚣 isthecapitalcitytrailflooded.com
The Greens have just beaten both Reform & Labour in a key UK by-election! With a bold vision of standing up for everyday working people and making billionaires & big corporations pay their share, the Greens can take on the big corporations and their right-wing cronies & win! 💚
Add your name to the open letter and say yes a new safer Wellington St, Collingwood 💙🚲 nicer-collingwood.my.canva.site
Very bad news for all other road users in the UK, especially those on foot and on bikes.
Number of US-style pickup trucks on UK roads up 92% in a decade, data shows
Exclusive: Campaigners say ‘menacing vehicles’ are putting children at risk owing to their large front blind zones
theguardian.com
Home to 28 million people, Shanghai is the world’s third-largest city—and nowhere captures its shift from industrial hub to modern metropolis better than the East Bank of the Huangpu River. At the centre of this waterfront revival is a 21-kilometre linear park anchored by a continuous cycling route.
CRITICAL MASS 30 is next week! Which one of these retro designs do you prefer? Blue, green, sort of ochre or red? 🤔 💡Want to help promote the ride? Download, print, cut & tape up on your fave traffic light signal pole, workplace etc drive.google.com/file/d/1t_9U... criticalmass.melbourne
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The Mayor of Yarra is a leading a thinly-veiled push to shut down our community’s hard-won and world-leading overdose prevention centre.
New Zealand's transport minister knows that congestion pricing's popularity always rises: "[Once] benefits start to flow in terms of smoother journey times, reduced traffic at peak times, smog goes down, safety improves, people go 'this is fantastic,' and immediately public opinion turns around."
Legislation allowing congestion charging passes third reading in Parliament
The Bill establishes a framework permitting local authorities to set up a congestion charging scheme, by notifying NZTA.
rnz.co.nz
Please read this. The Victorian Department of Transport and Planning and the City of Melbourne must do better. These collisions are avoidable but the infrastructure that protects cyclists needs to be built. www.northwestcitynews.com.au/will-richter...
Will Richter Memorial Ride
As a member of the “bike riding community”, I know many people across Melbourne who ride for transport. So, every time I read of someone being killed while riding their bike, I brace myself to learn w...
northwestcitynews.com.au
If anyone has any recommendations for podcasts about urban mobility, active transport and sustainable cities, please comment them below ⬇️ I’m keen to hear what’s working well in other cities around the world so we can apply these learnings in Melbourne 🐨🌳🚲🤎
The most important Critical Mass I’ve seen in my time attending these events. Please come. 🧡
Critical Mass naarm Melbourne@criticalmassmelb.bsky.social · 10mo ago❤️ Will Richter Memorial Ride: 5.30pm, Friday 31 Oct 2025, State Library, Melb CBD in honour of Will and in support of safe cycling infrastructure. Details + media release: criticalmass.melbourne
YES www.northwestcitynews.com.au/does-melbour...
Does Melbourne need to become less car-centric?
John Symons is an economist and the president of the Melbourne-based cycling advocacy group Bike West, which has committed to a lifelong battle to change people’s attitudes towards cycling infrastruct...
northwestcitynews.com.au
Deep dive into the surge in US pedestrian deaths: "It’s not that more pedestrians are getting hit by vehicles; it’s that the ones that are getting hit are more likely to die." "[That] seems like fairly strong evidence for the theory that the rise in large SUVs is behind the uptick in ped deaths."
Why Are So Many Pedestrians Killed by Cars in the US?
It’s unfortunately not uncommon for pedestrians to be killed by cars in the US.
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New @3crmelbourne.bsky.social #podcast: The long wait for change: Macaulay Road & Wellington Street, Ellen Sandell about Macaulay Road fatality, lack of protected bike lanes & petition. Local news incl. Bicycle Network 50 Year Celebration, Biketober + more www.3cr.org.au/yarrabug/epi...
The long wait for change: Macaulay Road & Wellington Street
On this weeks program Chris speaks with Karen Hovenga and Ellen Sandall, Greens State MP for Melbourne about Wellington Street and Macaulay Road active transport infrastructure issues.Local news inclu...
3cr.org.au
The bike lanes are designed and funded. But the state government hasn’t approved them. Why? No one knows. But they need to approve them. Now. Sign the petition in support here: ellensandell.com/issue/bike-l...
Demand Labor approve safe bike lanes on Macaulay Road - Ellen Sandell MP
Another young cyclist has been tragically killed on Macaulay Road in Kensington. Sign the petition to demand the Victorian Labor Government approve the plan for separated bike lanes on Macaulay Road.
ellensandell.com
Calling all data people! Pls help! 📈📊 AustRoads released their star ratings for road design last week. But some roads that have a high star rating for design for vehicle occupants have really terrible “fatal and serious injury” stats. I want to know how often these depart, and where.
Things we provide for drivers for when drivers make mistakes: Airbags Seat Belts Crumple zones Soft interiors 30km/h limits Things we provide for pedestrians for when drivers make mistakes: 30km/h limits #love30 ...making all our places better places to be
Almost 900 fewer people have been injured on Welsh roads since the default speed limit was lowered from 30 to 20mph two years ago Casualties on 20 to 30mph roads between July and September 2024 were the lowest for the three month-period since records began in 1979 👏 Evidence-led policy
Nearly 900 fewer people injured since 20mph introduction in Wales
Figures show a 25% reduction in the number of injuries on Wales' roads in the past 18 months.
bbc.co.uk
Just over a 100 signatures left to get to 4000. Help get these much needed bike lanes built 🚲🚲 #activetransport #cycling #urbanism #melbourne #springst
Harrison Watt@harrisonwatt.bsky.social · last yr.I have a lot of new followers here on BlueSky 🦋 By signing this petition, you can help the community-led campaign for Melbourne’s East-West cycling route from Kew to Carlton. A key missing link in Melbourne’s Principal Bike Network. www.change.org/bikelanes4jo...
🚴 Critical Mass returns 5.30pm Friday 29 August 2025 ... aligning with Melbourne's *changeable* spring weather, so check BoM radar and then make the call whether you’re riding with us 🎂 Celebrating our 30th birthday in Nov 2025! 💡Meet State Library forecourt, Melbourne CBD. 🌐 criticalmass.melbourne
I’m a massive advocate for 30km/hr speed limits… and today was a big day 🥹 I’ve been working for ages to make it easier for councils to implement this life saving speed limit. And today, the Department of Transport and Planning’s Speed Zoning Policy was updated to allow councils this choice! 💚
'A cyclist has died after a hit-and-run collision with a car in Moreland Road on Sunday night.' Please contact crime stoppers if you have any information or dash cam footage to help find the driver of the SUV brunswickvoice.com.au/police-inves...
Police investigating hit-and-run in Coburg
Cyclist died late early on Monday morning following collision.
brunswickvoice.com.au
