CRITICAL MASS 30 is next week! Which one of these retro designs do you prefer? Blue, green, sort of ochre or red? 🤔 💡Want to help promote the ride? Download, print, cut & tape up on your fave traffic light signal pole, workplace etc drive.google.com/file/d/1t_9U... criticalmass.melbourne

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The Mayor of Yarra is a leading a thinly-veiled push to shut down our community’s hard-won and world-leading overdose prevention centre.

New Zealand's transport minister knows that congestion pricing's popularity always rises: "[Once] benefits start to flow in terms of smoother journey times, reduced traffic at peak times, smog goes down, safety improves, people go 'this is fantastic,' and immediately public opinion turns around."

Please read this. The Victorian Department of Transport and Planning and the City of Melbourne must do better. These collisions are avoidable but the infrastructure that protects cyclists needs to be built. www.northwestcitynews.com.au/will-richter...

If anyone has any recommendations for podcasts about urban mobility, active transport and sustainable cities, please comment them below ⬇️ I’m keen to hear what’s working well in other cities around the world so we can apply these learnings in Melbourne 🐨🌳🚲🤎

The most important Critical Mass I’ve seen in my time attending these events. Please come. 🧡

YES www.northwestcitynews.com.au/does-melbour...

Deep dive into the surge in US pedestrian deaths: "It’s not that more pedestrians are getting hit by vehicles; it’s that the ones that are getting hit are more likely to die." "[That] seems like fairly strong evidence for the theory that the rise in large SUVs is behind the uptick in ped deaths."

New @3crmelbourne.bsky.social #podcast: The long wait for change: Macaulay Road & Wellington Street, Ellen Sandell about Macaulay Road fatality, lack of protected bike lanes & petition. Local news incl. Bicycle Network 50 Year Celebration, Biketober + more www.3cr.org.au/yarrabug/epi...

The bike lanes are designed and funded. But the state government hasn’t approved them. Why? No one knows. But they need to approve them. Now. Sign the petition in support here: ellensandell.com/issue/bike-l...

Calling all data people! Pls help! 📈📊 AustRoads released their star ratings for road design last week. But some roads that have a high star rating for design for vehicle occupants have really terrible “fatal and serious injury” stats. I want to know how often these depart, and where.

Things we provide for drivers for when drivers make mistakes: Airbags Seat Belts Crumple zones Soft interiors 30km/h limits Things we provide for pedestrians for when drivers make mistakes: 30km/h limits #love30 ...making all our places better places to be

Almost 900 fewer people have been injured on Welsh roads since the default speed limit was lowered from 30 to 20mph two years ago Casualties on 20 to 30mph roads between July and September 2024 were the lowest for the three month-period since records began in 1979 👏 Evidence-led policy

Just over a 100 signatures left to get to 4000. Help get these much needed bike lanes built 🚲🚲 #activetransport #cycling #urbanism #melbourne #springst

🚴 Critical Mass returns 5.30pm Friday 29 August 2025 ... aligning with Melbourne's *changeable* spring weather, so check BoM radar and then make the call whether you’re riding with us 🎂 Celebrating our 30th birthday in Nov 2025! 💡Meet State Library forecourt, Melbourne CBD. 🌐 criticalmass.melbourne

I’m a massive advocate for 30km/hr speed limits… and today was a big day 🥹 I’ve been working for ages to make it easier for councils to implement this life saving speed limit. And today, the Department of Transport and Planning’s Speed Zoning Policy was updated to allow councils this choice! 💚

'A cyclist has died after a hit-and-run collision with a car in Moreland Road on Sunday night.' Please contact crime stoppers if you have any information or dash cam footage to help find the driver of the SUV brunswickvoice.com.au/police-inves...

Dodgy driving #123,612 🤬

Who cycles in Richmond? 🙋🏻‍♀️ The intersection of Swan and Lennox is bustling - full bars, live music, great restaurants! But it’s a tricky spot to navigate by bike. We’ve proposed some changes that would make it simpler. Let us know your thoughts: yoursayyarra.com.au/transport202... #cycling #bike

For those following Yarra’s bike lane narrowing saga: concept plans for narrowed lanes approved 😭😭 (despite safety audit painting a pretty grim picture!) Now over to the state government to approve… (after another $200k is spent on detailed designs for less safe lanes 🙃)

Elizabeth Street protected lanes back at Yarra Council meeting tonight, starts at 6.30pm, watch livestream here: www.yarracity.vic.gov.au/about-us/com... Alt motion emailed to Yarra councillors as circuit breaker? drive.google.com/file/d/18F__... Backgrounder: www.yarrabug.org/yarra-for-sa...

The Elizabeth St bike lanes are back on the Yarra Council agenda, and there's a lot of talk about potential liability 👀👀

None of Elizabeth Street saga needed to occur if Yarra councillors followed due process etc but here we are. What you can do now: send a email to Melissa Horne MP, Roads Minister & Gabrielle Williams MP, Public and Public and Active Transport Minister /2 www.yarrabug.org/yarra-for-sa...

'Councillors at the City of Yarra will next week again attempt to thrash out the future of the bike corridor on Elizabeth Street through Richmond North.' 🙄 /1 bicyclenetwork.com.au/newsroom/202...

Come to a forum of community members to discuss what we want Elizabeth St & North Richmond precinct to look like in 10-20 years, discussing likely increase in housing & population, Elizabeth St bike lanes & how car parking works in the area now & in the future events.humanitix.com/future-of-no...

Good news out of Canada 👏 “Ontario court strikes down Ford government's plan to remove Toronto bike lanes” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Melbourne is the 4th most liveable city in the world but by allocating so much public space to cars, the city can feel far from liveable. Where is the leadership from council to close these streets to cars? When will the Future Streets Framework be implemented? 📍Lt Lonsdale St, Melbourne

I gave my thoughts on shared e-bike schemes in @australia.theguardian.com this week. In short: we need to dedicate more on-street space for the bikes to be parked, keeping footpaths clear.

New priority crossing for folks on foot and bike on the Capital City Trail! 🙌 I championed this crossing last term (including after lobbying from grade 5s!), and am proud to see it delivered (the last item of our 2020 council’s last budget). 💚 #edinburghgardens #cycling #bikepath

City of Melbourne bike lane budget: better than expected result? Remains to be seen if these genuine upgrades. CoM meeting: www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/meeting/coun... Bicycle Network insta reel: www.instagram.com/p/DLjEwX5SDYr/

Before / After on the spot (Place du Châtelet in the center of Paris)

Avant / Après la piétonnisation et la végétalisation de la Rue Henri Poincaré dans le 20ème arrondissement de Paris

Help reinstate the $11m cut from cycling infrastructure in the City of Melbourne draft budget by making a submission before 5pm tomorrow 2nd of June. via Bicycle Network

“Melbourne crimps bike lane roll-out” via Bicycle Network Newsroom bicyclenetwork.com.au/newsroom/202...

Tell Lord Mayor Nick Reece and Melbourne City Council to reinstate the $3.5m funding for protected bike lanes in the 2025-26 budget. Closes 5pm 2nd June. participate.melbourne.vic.gov.au/budget-2025-26

The City of Melbourne plans to build 50km of protected bike lanes 2020-2030, so far building 24.4km. This week, Lord Mayor, Nick Reece, CUT his commitment to fund these lanes from $5m to a mere $1.5m. While Paris, London & Bogotá progress at pace, it feels like Melbourne is progressing so slowly

Ok just in case, Yarra, 92055555 select road & street maintenance > bike lanes www.yarracity.vic.gov.au/services Transport Vic: Report hazards: 13117, 24/7 for all urgent road hazards & anything that presents immediate danger. Call 000 in emergency situation transport.vic.gov.au/contact-us/r...

The City of Melbourne look to have slashed the budget for building bike lanes from $4M in the forward budget to just $1.5M. youtu.be/5LqVmO3dQAE

Melbourne's population is projected to exceed 9 million by 2050 and this bloke, who wants to be the leader of our state, is still complaining that there's too many bike lanes in the city. Do better.

I would also add Lyon, France to the list. - An affordable & accessible bike share scheme (Vélo’V) with 428 stations and 5000 bikes - 870km separated cycle lanes in metro Lyon - 1000€ e-bike, cargo bike subsidy - Freevélo’v, a free long-term bike rental service for students and young people

Safer speeds save lives, but they need to be enforced by road safety cameras and police, otherwise you still see lots of this behaviour in a 30km/h speed zone. 📍Smith St, Collingwood @victoriapolicenews.bsky.social

On a generous read, Yarra is spending spending $900k on bikes in this year’s draft budget. That’s about half of what we spent last year. (But according to media reports it has been doubled? 🧐🧐🧐)

Mayor of Yarra, Stephen Jolly, accuses resident cyclists of “white privilege” and of being “professional managerial class” all because they want a safe protected bike lane. Those comments drew backlash on the night, with one person in the crowd calling out “I’m not white, Jolly!” bit.ly/4jnsGzv

Peter Dutton’s campaign is literally stuck on the curb…. Says everything 😳

Peter Dutton “I am an emotional person particularly where I see...stories of kids being harmed.” 😳 He's a sociopath! #auspol #AusVotes25 #TemuTrump #qanda #abc730

It’s unfortunate that the same cannot be done for drivers or the 7,500 hit-and-run collisions that occur in London each year.

Safety is the #1 barrier in getting women cycling as @drlaurenpearson.bsky.social discusses in this interview Here’s hoping politicians look at the facts rather than making comments saying that safe protected bike lanes are “derogatory” and “diminishing” towards women as Cr Aston did this week.