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Western Sydney’s fantastic new Emu Trail

Bicycle NSW recently participated in the opening celebrations for the new M12 Cycleway The event was organised by Greater Sydney Parklands at its Wylde MTB and BMX facility. We hosted a pop-up stall with Western Sydney Cycling Network and CAMWEST, and had a great day meeting riders from near and far – including Bike Leichhardt

Bicycle User Group Illawarra Ramblers cross the recently completed bridge over President Avenue in Kogarah on its 10 Sydney Bridges ride

A half billion dollar win for walking and riding!

But is it enough? Bicycle NSW is extremely pleased that the Australian Government has made an ongoing commitment to a National Active Transport Fund. $500 million over 10 years has been allocated in the 2026/27 Budget to support the construction of bicycle and walking paths across the nation. Why this is a win? In just

Pedestrians killed after car mounts footpath in Blacktown

Bold reform is critical to reduce road trauma

Transport for NSW is developing a new Road Safety Action Plan to guide efforts to reduce death and injuries on NSW roads over the next 5 years. Bicycle NSW has been involved with early engagement on the new strategy. We met the project team at a stakeholder workshop in late 2025, submitted feedback and ideas,

Bicycle NSW: Here for another 50 years with your support

Celebrate our 50th anniversary and make a tax-deductible donation this End of Financial Year This year Bicycle NSW is proud to celebrate an important milestone: 50 years of creating a better environment for all bicycle riders in NSW. We hope that one day New South Wales will be a cycling utopia. But, as the only

Peter Sarah at the NSW State Library

Why safe, legal e-bikes do not need registration or licensing

Bicycle NSW has always been clear that the registration and licensing of compliant EN-15194 e-bikes is NOT the answer Unfortunately, there is an ongoing media muddle about the difference between legal and illegal e-mobility devices. And this has recently been compounded by calls from the Queensland Government and some NSW politicians for unnecessary licensing and

Counting cyclists again: Has the ramp changed the numbers?

Back in October 2025, before the Sydney Harbour Bridge Cycleway northern access ramp was complete, we positioned ourselves at the bottom of the Milsons Point steps, and undertook a bike count during the peak commuting hour.   We marked every bicycle rider that passed us in both directions, scribbling away to make a note of several

Sydney’s very first School Street

For many families, school drop-off time is stressful. The fifteen-to-thirty minute window is a familiar scene: parents are rushing to get away to work, and children are distracted by the excitement of greeting their class-mates. There is the usual line of queuing cars, engines running, creeping forwards, or making three-point turns in the same space

More of the same for regional transport planning?

Why the new regional transport plans won’t make NSW much better for bike riding and how to advocate for better outcomes The NSW Government is developing their Strategic Regional Integrated Transport Plans (SRITPs) for 9 NSW regions. This major piece of work is hot on the heels of the former government’s incomplete set of Regional

A new future for Glebe Island Bridge

The next infrastructure upgrade for Sydney? On Tuesday 6th January 2026, as half the working world remained on holiday and the other half reluctantly returned to empty desks and full email inboxes, an excited crowd gathered in North Sydney’s Bradfield Park.  The demographic was noticeably different to the regular stream of commuters traditionally seen ascending

No more stairs to the Sydney Harbour Bridge Cycleway!

Huge progress for Sydney as a connected cycling city Bicycle NSW staff and Board Members were amongst the crowd, catching up with all the familiar faces that make up the wider advocacy community. So many people who helped get this project over the line were there: Bicycle User Group leaders, former and current ministers, mayors