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,…
Cycling is often talked about in terms of movement – speed, efficiency, congestion relief, carbon reduction. But for many people, the decision to ride — or not — has very little to do with kilometres or commute times. It comes down to something much more fundamental: Do I feel safe? Alice Vincent is an Associate…
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…
When approaching a pedestrian crossing, ‘priority path’ crossing, children’s crossing or signalised crossing, it can be confusing for bike riders to know what to do. When riding on a road or on-road bicycle path: bike riders must obey the traffic light signals i.e. stop on red and go on green bike riders must give way…
Over the last 12 months, Bicycle NSW has supported the Western Sydney Health Alliance with a pilot Active Travel to Schools project. In a collective effort to better understand the barriers to walking and riding to school, the project team worked with kids, parents and staff at 6 primary schools in 6 Western Sydney council…
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…
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…
Many of our Members and the wider bicycle community have been worried about what the recent e-bike rule changes mean for them. Through our advocacy, both in the public realm and behind the scenes, Bicycle NSW has been able to positively influence government to ensure the changes continue to strike the right balance between safety…
Bicycle NSW is committed to helping people cycle more Ride to get to work. Ride to get to school. Ride to get your groceries, and ride back to get the garlic that you just forgot. Ride to see a friend. Ride to see an exhibition. Ride to see a new area, and ride to see…
Bicycle NSW and Bicycle User Group Bike North are working to bust bollards on cycling infrastructure. These pesky steel posts regularly injure bike riders – but they are too often wholly unnecessary. Our article Rethinking bollards on bike paths sets out what the Bicycle NSW and Bike North campaign hopes to achieve. And in the last couple…