My personal oppinion is that all new roads and where possible road upgrades (windsor road is a good example) should have provision for cycleways. It cant cost them that much more and in a lot of ways they kill 2 birds with one stone. a little bit of foresight would go a long way.

This doesnt apply just to your lycra clad road junkie, but better cycling facilities will futher improve kids saftey and also the safety of commuters, as the article states. I know im preaching to the converted here, but its a point that needs to be made. I would cycle to work if there wasnt a suicidal merge lane that had to be negotiated.....

Whether the budget of 15 mil is too low is not really the issue. The issue is that what little funding was there has now been reduced and shows a further lack of interest from the govt in promoting cycling initiatives. Hence more lobbying will have to occur from various interest groups in order to get funding levels back to where they previously were, even though that was too low. Its probably put cycleway and other cycling initiative development back 10 years in this state.