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CYCLING NEWS ROUNDUP

weekly cycling headlines from Canberra, Australia and the world

compiled by Roger Bacon, Pedal Power ACT Advocacy Team
Sunday 3 February 2019

Headline news

RIDING TO SCHOOL
Riding to school - Bicycle NSW
Active School Travel program - Brisbane City Council
Active travel to school report - Heart Foundation
[PDF] Active school travel: pathways to a healthy future - Aust Health Policy Collaboration
[VIC] 'Back-seat generation': time-poor parents choose car over short walk to school - The Age
- Australian Catholic University report here
ROAD SAFETY REVIEWS IN PROGRESS
[PDF] Review of national road safety governance: terms of reference - Australian Government
[PDF] Developing technology-neutral road rules for driver distraction - National Transport Commn
ROAD RAGE RANT: BE CAREFUL WHO YOU YELL AT
[NSW] Cyclists yelled at in viral video by driver were off-duty policemen - CT
End anti-social media - Bicycle NSW
High priority items below are in red type.

Local news

Journey planner [includes cycling option] - Transport Canberra
New 12 km trail planned for National Arboretum - CT
[Hall] ACT Govt confident in Heritage Council decisions, trusts its integrity - CT
Bike lanes, wider footpaths, extended trading hours part of new Braddon plan - CT

National news

Bike rider fatalities continue to flatline - Bicycle Network
[Comment] Five contentious things people say about cycling - Executive Style [M O’Reilly]
[NSW] Labor announces $7m to get kids back on bikes - Bicycle NSW
[Research][VIC] On-road bicycle lane types, roadway characteristics, and risks - Science Direct
[VIC] Motorist who killed Dutch cyclist Gitta Scheenhouwer was on his way to buy drugs - CT
Perth cyclist says one-metre rule a joke after damning video - CT
[TAS][Video ad] Distance makes the difference, Phase II - Road Safety Advisory Council

International news

NZ
[Video ad] Feel more, ride more - NZ Transport Agency
Aotearoa Bike Challenge 2019 - Love to Ride
Europe
[PDF] Dutch cycling vision - Dutch Cycling Embassy
Oslo made its city center basically car-free, and it's great - Fast Company

France has a plan to triple the share of journeys made by bike - World Economic Forum
UK
[Video] Active Nation Commissioner for Scotland - Vimeo
Mayor launches search for Active Travel Commissioner - Sheffield City Region
[Opinion] Cycle lanes are the solution to congestion not the problem - London Evening Standard
Transport for London asks the public’s views on four major new cycle routes - road.cc

Priest who asked parishioners to pray against Cycle Superhighway is converted - road.cc
Minister for Transport attends 'More Kids on Bikes’ meeting - Forbes.com
Scrapped HS2 bike path 'five times better value than HS2 itself' - The Guardian
#OneInAMillion campaign to boost women's cycling by 1 m by 2020 - British Cycling
More cycling could prevent 34,000 life-threatening illnesses in 7 major UK cities by 2040 - Sustrans
Canada
[Nova Scotia][Opinion] People should look beyond biking as simply recreation - Chronicle Herald
USA
Interview with “The Cycling Professor” – Streetsblog California
Bike commuting: growing or shrinking in the United States? - People for Bikes
New House Transportation Chair: ‘We need to move beyond fossil fuel’ - Streetsblog USA
Global
12 of the best MTB destinations to visit in 2019 - Singletracks Mountain Bike News
Opinions expressed in the Cycling News Roundup are those of the respective authors and are not necessarily those of Pedal Power ACT.
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