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Bicycle NSW greatly benefitted from the engineering expertise of the late Ray Rice OAM.  Ray was our CEO from 2015-16 and an invaluable Advocacy Consultant between 2017 and 2020.

Ray Rice (left) was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia shortly before his early death in 2021. Ray and his wife Sue (right, riding the Spring Cycle) were lifelong cyclists who supported bicycle events and initiatives over many decades.

 

We have created ‘Ray’s Corner’ to celebrate his life and contribution, and enable everyone in the community to better advocate for improved bike riding infrastructure.  

This page is a great place to find our recent content about policy, strategy and design guidelines.  There are links to important documents and deep dives into issues such as e-bike safety, street design, speed limits, parking policy and road space reallocation. 

Recent policy and design articles

Western Distributor

Strategic modelling: Helpful or harmful?

14/11/2023
A transport model is a tool for assessing the likely impacts on travel demand caused...
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small child standing in front of super sized ute

Supersizing parking

21/10/2023
for supersized cars is mad Let Standards Australia know that this is a really bad...
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Cars travelling down the road in 40km zone

Inner West plans 40 and below

17/10/2023
The Inner West Council has conducted a study to look at reducing the speed limits...
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The problem with Local Traffic Committees

The problem with Local Traffic Committees

14/09/2023
And the fix Active transport advocates have long been frustrated by the slow machinations of...
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Greenways for a healthy city

13/09/2023
“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where...
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Fund active transport for our children's sake

Fund Active Transport For Our Children’s Sake

20/08/2023
Bicycle NSW and Better Streets have collaborated to push the NSW Labor Government to fund...
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Pedestrians are fed up with begging

Pedestrians are fed up with begging

08/08/2023
Bicycle riders and pedestrians are done - so very done - with having to wait...
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Road rage death 5 years on

Making walking and cycling a priority

21/06/2023
Parents across NSW are calling for safer roads around schools to enable active transport. Making...
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Breathing life into Parramatta Road

Breathing Life into Parramatta Road

25/05/2023
Parramatta Road is no longer a road. It’s a stroad! What’s a stroad? A stroad...
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Policies and strategies for walking, cycling and place outcomes

Transport for NSW has published a range of new policies and guidelines to support planning, design and delivery of walking and cycling infrastructure. These build on the NSW Government’s Future Transport 2056 vision and the Movement and Place framework.

Road User Space Allocation Policy

This corporate policy requires Transport for NSW allocates physical and temporal road user space safely and equitably to support the movement of people and goods and place objectives. Updated in July 2024.

Cycleway Design Toolbox

Guidance for practitioners on desired outcomes for cycling and other forms of micromobility in NSW. The design principles outlined aim to address both the movement function and place intensity of a location.

Providing for Walking & Cycling in Transport Projects

This corporate policy requires every transport project funded by Transport for NSW must include provision for walking and cycling, and must be delivered from the outset of every transport project.

Walking Space Guide

The Walking Space Guide provides a set of standards and tools to assist those responsible for the pedestrian environment to achieve comfortable environments which encourage people to walk.

Movement + Place Framework and Practitioners' Guide

Movement and Place is a cross-government framework for planning and managing our roads and streets across NSW. The framework is realised through a series of Practitioners' Guides and tools including the Walking Space Guide and Cycleway Design Toolbox.

Design of Roads and Streets

DORAS aims to be a really practical ‘how to’ guide for practitioners delivering new and re-imagined streetscapes that strongly embed the Movement and Place framework. Bicycle NSW has written an article exploring this New Manual for Designing Roads and Streets

We have drawn together guidelines and principles into one resource to help you. As we continue to work, this resource will grow. Please check back for updates.
Last update 15 September 2020