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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Chris and Melissa Bruntlett are influential urban mobility advocates and practitioners based in the Netherlands. They have now written three books together. The first, ‘Building the Cycling City: The Dutch blueprint for urban vitality’, was inspired by their first trip to the Netherlands in 2016 after a decade of bicycle advocacy in Vancouver. The second…

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