ATTENTION!
Our friend Adrian gave us the heads up about this. See you there.
Hi ppls,
If you read the papers, you’ll probably have heard the new cycleways have been getting a lot of bad press.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw-act/business-fury-at-bike-paths/story-e6freuzi-1225898703757
This is a bit of a flash mob event aimed at targeting a proposed anti-cycleway rally on at the same time. i.e. as reported today: “Angry business owners are demanding the council rip up the cycleway and residents have called for a rally at Sydney Town Hall at 6pm on Tuesday to protest against the council’s decision.”
See: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/on-your-bike-clover/story-e6freuy9-1225899453480We’d like to show strength in numbers. Please come along and invite people within your cycling networks?
Cheers
Adrian
Support the Sydney Cycleway Network Rally
Head to town hall 6pm Tuesday to show our support for future plans to introduce a people friendly cycleway network. It also coincides with an Alan jones inspired protest that is planned for the same time.
http://www.sydneycyclist.com/events/support-the-sydney-cycleway
August 2nd, 2010 at 2:01 pm
The Daily telegraph has an interesting survey. “Should taxpayers be subsidising bicycle commuters?” see link below. Show your support!
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw-act/business-fury-at-bike-paths/story-e6freuzi-1225898703757
August 2nd, 2010 at 2:12 pm
The arguments are a nonsense.
Why react to them.
One argument was essentially saying the City of Sydney shouldn’t have bought T2 night club… they obviously prefer dirty smelly cyclists, to clean ones.
Or better yet, drunk / drugged out wackos leaving T2 night club at 8.00am in the morning to clean bike commuters.
Also the reporting of the stats of useage on Bourke St Cycle way in Alexandria are just noise.
The reportage is done is such a way to try and show that more cyclist don’t use than use the cycle way and that is just riding along Bourke St itself! Ignore the fact they are comparing a greater period of time, and on a different day.
And the stats they did mention for actually using the bike lane were on a day it was pissing down with rain!
That said, there does need to be some improvements in signage. Most signs pointing cyclists to the City take them via Eastlakes, even though they are just a stones throw from the start of the Bourke St Cycle lane.
August 2nd, 2010 at 3:13 pm
Wow, so business owners and residents would rather have people driving their cars in from the outer suburbs and taking up all the parking so that none of the locals have room to park.
And for that matter, I’d rather see people commuting to work on their bicycles than a convoy of fuel-guzzling motor vehicles clogging up our lungs and atmosphere…forward thinking!
August 4th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
oh that was awesome. Total no-show from the Alan Jones mob. There goes their credability. Awesome speech by Clover, and really awesome speech by Chris Virtue. And i dunno 3 or 4 hundred cyclists? How many do you reckon?
August 25th, 2010 at 2:07 pm
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/cycleway-claim-turns-into-classless-action-20100824-13qfr.html