1. Build It For Everyone
We call on government to build cycling infrastructure that meets everybody’s needs.
Our vision includes:
• An 8 year old child riding independently to school
• An 80 year old cycling to the shops
• Parents cycling with toddlers in child carriers to day-care and then parking at the station
• Workers commuting by bike or connect to public transport hubs
• Businesses moving goods and delivering services using cargo bikes
• Sport and leisure riders enjoying keeping fit, exploring and travelling
• Tourists choosing to visit our cities, towns and communities to ride
• Supports all people's forms of movement around our community
Well-built infrastructure transforms community behaviour, reduces noise, carbon and air pollution, and benefits motorists through less congestion and pressure on parking. Patchy, poorly-connected, inadequate or dangerous provision won’t be enough to change behaviour and deliver these benefits.
2. Safe Home
Everyone deserves to arrive home safely and we need a safe systems approach to deliver this. Infrastructure must build in safety, legislation and enforcement needs to ensure the most vulnerable road users are protected from injury and death. In addition, speed limits and traffic flows need to prioritise safety.
Education focused on helmets and what vulnerable road users need to do in the hopes it will change driver behaviour, has failed to reduce the road toll.
Driver education and enforcement focused on changing speeding, close passing (Minimum Passing Distance - MPD) and distracted behaviour work, as well as measures to make heavy vehicles safer and to improve construction management.
Our key messages will focus on #MPD and work with police, lower speed limits, #BuildSafeNSW and safer heavy vehicles.
3. Invest Now For Health
Increasing the rates of cycling and reducing inactivity offers huge public health benefits, life expectancy increases and cost savings. The sooner we improve behaviour the faster we all reap the benefits, individually and as a society.
We support effective behaviour change and we need the data and opportunity to test what works in order to achieve best practice.
We collaborate with health, education, non-profit, sport and government to campaign and deliver effective programs. Our key messages are #MakeHealthyNormal and #FindYour30 for every 1km cycled the community reaps a $1.43 benefit.