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…
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Continue reading at the publisher's website.With a wave of intense humidity behind us, Autumn’s edition of Ride Leader training took place in comparatively beautiful conditions: blue skies, warm temperatures and a cooling breeze for those pedalling around Sydney’s Olympic Park. Once again, participants and volunteers gathered in the morning at the Park’s Educational Centre. This time to assess nine new…
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Continue reading at the publisher's website.Until recently, Scott could never have imagined saying the words “I love to ride my bicycle.” Scott had experienced years of physical injuries from various workplaces and, as a result, he had slowed down. Activity had become harder and movement had become optional. Gradually life had narrowed down to a familiar routine: evenings spent at…
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Continue reading at the publisher's website.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…
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Continue reading at the publisher's website.Amy Nguyen is a Community Lead in the shared office space that Bicycle NSW currently works out of in Sydney. At the start of the year Amy’s commuting habits shifted - a lot. Previously she was combining a twenty minute metro journey with a walk at either end. Now Amy is riding her newly purchased…
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Continue reading at the publisher's website.Bicycle NSW is a Member-funded organisation. The individuals and groups at the heart of the Bicycle NSW community are how we are able to do our work. They are also why we do our work. It is for them that we continue to campaign for a better cycling environment across NSW. d’Arcy Lunn’s initiative, Teaspoons…
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Continue reading at the publisher's website.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…
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Continue reading at the publisher's website.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…
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Continue reading at the publisher's website.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…
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Continue reading at the publisher's website.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…
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