October is National Safe Work Month and new regulation has been proposed for the food delivery industry. But, sadly, it is evident that a lot is missing. Over the past two years we have worked with MP’s, SafeWork and the Joint Taskforce: Food Delivery Rider Safety on safety issues, because food delivery riders face the…
NSW bike riders are tired of waiting for safer roads. Viral Video Endangering Riders Over the weekend a rider had a drink thrown at her whilst riding. Luckily she didn’t crash, but she is concerned a post circulating on social media may have inspired a copy-cat. One of our team members commutes regularly around the…
Novice driver education in Australia doesn’t teach essential safety behaviour around bike riders well. Cycle Aware can address this. At the recent International Cycling Safety Conference, Dr Jennifer Bonham explained about the Cycle Aware driver education program. Cycle Aware is based on Australia-wide research and is designed to foster safer interactions bike riders. Unfortunately, a…
Bicycle NSW creates and shares content on road safety topics, but sometimes social media comment goes ‘off the rails’. Part of our mission to ‘create a better environment for all bike riders’ includes improving road safety and road sharing. We do this by creating and sharing content that: informs road users of the law –…
Back in February this year, Bicycle NSW submitted to the Parliamentary Inquiry into Driver Education, Training and Road Safety, and we were one of three cycling advocacy bodies, alongside Australian Cycle Alliance and AGF, who presented evidence directly to the inquiry. The report from the inquiry is now available to read. It’s pleasing to see…