We noticed it. bsky.app/profile/bike...

It's ambitious in its goal of 25%, but with no meaningful steps or even plans of how to even measure it and some pretty confused case studies, it's not really moving the needle.

Second Friday of every month is generally the plan.

April 2026 Come and say hello at our monthly meeting. For April we are having a casual meetup and discussion at Mamma Chen's, 42A Albert St, Footscray VIC 3011 this Friday the 10th of April. We'll be there from ...

April Newsletter, get it while it's fresh. Also come for a catchup at Mamma Chen's this Friday newsletter.bikewest.org/april-2026/

Critical mass is coming west this Friday to ask that #westlink be built. Come join us for a fun ride. The weather looks cold but hopefully dry. Fun for the whole family!

Even the painted lane is actually just car parking in parts like in this photo. Really hoping we can get some protected lanes happening further down.

Great #Ride2SchoolDay #bikebus down Barkly st, WeFo this morning. With enough riders we were able to take the lane and make it safe for the kids riding.

They did so to avoid the kind of bullshit we've just seen with Elizabeth st, Richmond and with some of Maribyrnong's "popup" infrastructure being rolled back.

The plan talks about how good Seville's rollout was, but then waffles on about low cost, transitional and trade-offs with other transport outcomes and on street car parking.

Seville went hard, fast and permanent from the outset.

But get on with it already. We've had strategic cycling corridors for almost decade now, with bugger all being built out that didn't already exist.

Mostly it hits the right notes, talking about connectedness and linking activity centers. Seems to be a lot of focus on walking too which is great.

State government has released their active transport plan.

transport.vic.gov.au/road-and-act...

Big cars are dead weight dragging down climate policy Australia’s government has released a new transport climate policy. But it doesn’t deal with the problem of car bloat: the main driver of rising emissions.

Australia's transport policy should:

- Have WAY more federal support for active / public transport
- Should have put limits on road tanks YEARS ago instead of subsidising them!
- Should close the massive loopholes in efficiency standards
- Should close loopholes for fossil+battery cars (hi BYD)

Group of bicycle riders on a city road riding towards their destination

Save The Date - next Critical Mass
Fri 27 March 2026
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March 2026 Come and say hello at our monthly meeting. For March we are meeting in the gardens next to Borderlands, 77A Paisley St, Footscray VIC 3011. We'll be there from 6PM, on Friday the 13th. All welcome. F...

BikeWest's March newsletter out now! Lot's happening at the moment newsletter.bikewest.org/march-2026/

Another death on Sydney Rd. www.police.vic.gov.au/cyclist-dies... 😭

Everyone loves applying research until it takes away a parking space or slows down cars

Keeping People Safe When Walking – Stream 2: Economic Assessment of Safer Speeds This report aims to build evidence to support Austroads’ members in assessing speed limit reductions in lower speed, typically in urban contexts.

Not only does reducing speed limits in urban environments make them more pleasant, it's economically beneficial too according to recent austroads research. austroads.gov.au/publications...

Protected bike lanes on Macaulay Road in North Melbourne and Kensington | Arden Street and Macaulay Road protected bike lanes City of Melbourne is delivering new kerbside protected bike lanes on Macaulay Road from Eastwood Street to Boundary Road to make the street safer and easier for everyone to use.

5 months is about how long it takes for indefinitely delayed plans to be turned into starting construction once someone dies. participate.melbourne.vic.gov.au/arden-macaul...

February 2026 Come and say hello at our monthly meeting. For February we are meeting outside in the Community Garden at Borderlands, 77A Paisley St, Footscray VIC 3011. We'll be there from 6PM, on Friday the 13th. ...

February newsletter out now. Come be our valentine this Friday for our monthly meeting.
newsletter.bikewest.org/february-2026/

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Email excerpt explaining why the slow points on oPntland parade, Seddon were removed.

So the thing that was designed to slow cars down and prioritise people on bikes worked too well, so we ripped it out. Thanks Victorian Government and Maribyrnong council.

Graph of acceleration -+ vs time

Went out and gathered some data today. 30 peaks in 5minutes. Anyone guess what we're measuring?

Yeah, since the popup program didn't add any new lanes, just made old ones wider. They can't get rid of any.

So they're removing all the lines (both old white and the yellow) where the pop up program was and replacing them with white.

It's just replacing it with the white lines right?

Maribyrnong got about 60m of protected lanes from the state pop up program. City of Maribyrnong removed that when they resurfaced. Other than WGTP on Hyde st. I'm pretty sure Maribyrnong is net negative protected lanes for the last 4 years.

Newly white sharrow

With the pop up program ending. The state is cleaning off the yellow paint and throwing down white paint instead. If only paint was infrastructure.

No inclination for fixing them coming from above so far. Do you find them equally bad? Or are some worse than others?

Definitely not the most pressing thing state wide, but we've got another factory fire in the West. Avoid the smoke originating in Derrimut, probably currently heading Laverton way, could be heading more westward this arvo though.