Photo of me standing in front of a truck showing $68.1bn in revenue has been foregone since 2022 due to no 25% tax on gas exports

Out in front of our mobile gas giveaway tracker

The Greens have just beaten both Reform & Labour in a key UK by-election!

With a bold vision of standing up for everyday working people and making billionaires & big corporations pay their share, the Greens can take on the big corporations and their right-wing cronies & win! 💚

Add your name to the open letter and say yes a new safer Wellington St, Collingwood 💙🚲

nicer-collingwood.my.canva.site

Number of US-style pickup trucks on UK roads up 92% in a decade, data shows Exclusive: Campaigners say ‘menacing vehicles’ are putting children at risk owing to their large front blind zones

Very bad news for all other road users in the UK, especially those on foot and on bikes.

Pedestrian fatalities reach 17-year-high. This trend could be why Fifty-one pedestrians had been killed on the state’s roads this year as of Saturday – the most in any calendar year since 2008.

www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

Just 38 signatures to go until 4000 🚲💙

Thanks for your support!

Home to 28 million people, Shanghai is the world’s third-largest city—and nowhere captures its shift from industrial hub to modern metropolis better than the East Bank of the Huangpu River. At the centre of this waterfront revival is a 21-kilometre linear park anchored by a continuous cycling route.

Critical Mass 30: BLUE 1995 - 2025 retro design with photo and sticker. Meet 5.30pm, State Library, naarm Melbourne, Friday 28 November 2025 and let's ride home together

Critical Mass 30: RED 1995 - 2025 retro design with photo and sticker. Meet 5.30pm, State Library, naarm Melbourne, Friday 28 November 2025 and let's ride home together

Critical Mass 30: OCHRE 1995 - 2025 retro design with photo and sticker. Meet 5.30pm, State Library, naarm Melbourne, Friday 28 November 2025 and let's ride home together

Critical Mass 30: GREEN 1995 - 2025 retro design with photo and sticker. Meet 5.30pm, State Library, naarm Melbourne, Friday 28 November 2025 and let's ride home together

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...

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Want to hear more about everything public and active transport in Melbourne, Australia?

Follow the Street People Melbourne starter pack 🌳🚶‍♀️🚴‍♂️👨‍🦽‍➡️💙

If we’ve missed you off the list, let us know and we can add you 🫶🏻

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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.

Legislation allowing congestion charging passes third reading in Parliament The Bill establishes a framework permitting local authorities to set up a congestion charging scheme, by notifying NZTA.

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."

Will Richter Memorial Ride As a member of the “bike riding community”, I know many people across Melbourne who ride for transport. So, every time I read of someone being killed while riding their bike, I brace myself to learn w...

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. 🧡

Does Melbourne need to become less car-centric? John Symons is an economist and the president of the Melbourne-based cycling advocacy group Bike West, which has committed to a lifelong battle to change people’s attitudes towards cycling infrastruct...

YES

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

Why Are So Many Pedestrians Killed by Cars in the US? It’s unfortunately not uncommon for pedestrians to be killed by cars in the US.

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."

The long wait for change: Macaulay Road & Wellington Street On this weeks program Chris speaks with Karen Hovenga and Ellen Sandall, Greens State MP for Melbourne about Wellington Street and Macaulay Road active transport infrastructure issues.Local news inclu...

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...

Demand Labor approve safe bike lanes on Macaulay Road - Ellen Sandell MP Another young cyclist has been tragically killed on Macaulay Road in Kensington. Sign the petition to demand the Victorian Labor Government approve the plan for separated bike lanes on Macaulay Road.

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

Nearly 900 fewer people injured since 20mph introduction in Wales Figures show a 25% reduction in the number of injuries on Wales' roads in the past 18 months.

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.
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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! 💚

Police investigating hit-and-run in Coburg Cyclist died late early on Monday morning following collision.

'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
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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

Richmond bike lanes to shrink after controversial parking plan approved Five years after removing car parks to install protected bike lanes, Yarra council has voted to downgrade the lanes and reintroduce parking.

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 👀👀