RTA website blurb:

Bicycles
The New South Wales Government is committed to providing transport alternatives that:

Make it easier and more convenient for people to get to places where they want to go
Reduce the rate at which the demand for car travel increases in future, thereby helping to improve air quality
For bicycles to achieve the above goals, the Government has developed Action for Bikes - BikePlan 2010.
Action for Bikes - BikePlan 2010 describes a 4-point action plan for bicycles in NSW

Improving the bike network
Making it safer to cycle
Improving personal and environmental health
Raising community awareness

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.

After 3 hard weeks of work and no bike riding...working from home today, extended lunch to go for a quick blast round the peninusla, sun is shining, whisper of a breeze...Life is good again :D

Anyone around this weekend?

oh yeah... I stopped in at almost LBS & found the 04 tour of flanders DVD.... a snip at $100 :eek:

nah, in Sydney all weekend myself.

I thought it would be like Trainspotting, and was going to watch it with my oldest daughter. Glad she went to sleep before it came on. They talk funny.

how about the bloke God turned into a fly buzzing around his mum rogering his dad against the fireplace???? WTF**********?

Bob Coyle? Yeah, God was a trip, but one of Bob's mates recognized him, even as a fly in the last part, didn't they?

That's it. Bob Coyle.

Strange movie. Saw "The Cook The thief his Wife and her Lover" a few weeks prior on Showtime Greats. Another brain-bender.

Isn't that one like 15 years old?

Cycle Sydney is run my Bicycle NSW http://www.bicyclensw.org.au/ and is self funded. :)

OK then. :) they must be wasting the money in other inane ways then...

Just be careful that what you wish for is what you really want. It is likely that ANY bikepath built in smog city will be a shared path. That means that the thought police can nab you for cruising at more than 30kmh.

The alternative is to return to the arterial roads with a lesser population of bikes: ie. less tolerance from drivers

remember this is for people who cruise to work on K-Mart bikes too, not just us hammerheads. I'll always take the roads anyway

Yeh.....1989 I think

a great movie.

Trenton race coverage on cyclingnews.com right now, Julich and McCormack are powering and INCREASING their lead over a chasing bunch. They are 2 strong guys !!! Can they hold out ???

If anyone needs an excuse to buy stick-books, then here's one straight from Hugh Heffner. US Playboy has a 7-page interview with Lance in this month's edition. I dunno if it's being included in the Aussie variant tho.

Looks like the pace is white hot....carnage at the back!!!!

does he get his kit off ? They'll sell millions to all the bikers....

lap cards mess ups, fire trucks out on the course, McGuire lost a bike off the car and clipped a pole with it too, classic !!

:eek:


Remind me to always ride beside you!

maybe a couples spread with Sheryl would sell more? OK, gotta go puke now, sorry... back to the race action...

Still in front, chase is on....

i'll put an outside wager on Hoppy to take it over the Cuban Rocket and Stars and Stripes boy third.

$10k bike meets pole.