CYCLING NEWS ROUNDUP

weekly cycling headlines from Canberra, Australia and the world

compiled by Roger Bacon, Pedal Power ACT Advocacy Team

Sunday 24 March 2019

Headline news

[NSW] CYCLIST KILLED BY TRUCK IN NEWCASTLE CBD
Newcastle East cyclist fatality - Bicycle NSW
Risks continue to be ignored - Bicycle Network

RIDING TO SCHOOL
Ride2School Day is a blast, more schools should do it - Bicycle Network
[PDF] How to be safe when riding your bike: school presentation - Bicycle NSW
20 times more English children could cycle to school with better planning - The Conversation
Families in Bedford to take on UK’s biggest cycling, walking school challenge - Sustrans

CANBERRA LIGHT RAIL
Light rail now in planning for an Easter launch - Fitzharris
Driving in the path of light rail? That's going to cost you - CT

GREATER MANCHESTER INVESTS IN CYCLING INFRASTRUCTURE
Bumper boost to the Bee Network: £137 million investment - Transport for Greater Manchester
Cyclesnake-style bridge planned for Stockport as part of Bee Network proposals - Forbes.com

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High priority items below are in red type.

Local news

Barr to create funding reserve for overspent capital works budgets - CT
[PDF] Parliamentary Agreement status report, 2017-18 - ACT Government
How Canberra's transport innovation rates against the rest of the country - CT
[Consultation] Proposed animal hospital, cnr Pialligo Ave/Fairbairn Ave - NCA
Canberra Region calls for new deal - Barr

National news

[Video] Time to act on road safety - YouTube [Aust Auto Assn]
Riding Into happiness - Bicycle NSW
Contribute to research on Australian road safety strategies - Bicycle NSW
Pedalling a way out of congestion - Bicycle Network
Car-free cities for Australia? - The Mandarin
[Opinion] Let's make Perth the cycling-friendly city it deserves to be - CT

International news

India
Bicycle Mayors of India leading by example - BYCS

Europe
The Circulation Plan - City of Ghent
Designing and financing a regional cycle highway network in Flemish-Brabant - ECF
A new cycle bridge at the German border - Bicycle Dutch

UK
Should cyclists be licensed and insured? - The Guardian [Peter Walker]
[Blog] Is the HS2 cycleway a Kafkaesque impossibility? - Laura Laker
[Video] Dutch versus UK residential streets animation - Vimeo [Robert Weetman]
Response to Future of mobility: urban strategy - Sustrans
The mental health benefits of cycling - BikeBiz
Government provides £21m for National Cycle Network - road.cc

Canada
Clean BC - Government of British Columbia

USA
How you can plan to get more exercise, accidentally - CityLab
[Video] What’s the best thing about bicycling? - Vimeo
What can Detroit learn from Copenhagen? Q&A with M Colville-Andersen - City of Detroit

Global
To stop climate change: more shared mobility, fewer cars - CityLab
Commuters in these cities spend more than 8 days a year stuck in traffic - World Economic Forum
8 cities are taking space away from cars to cut pollution - Fast Company
[Research] Dehumanization of cyclists predicts aggressive behaviour - Science Direct

Netherlands PM Mark Rutte on the way to vote in regional elections, 20 March

2019 Indian Pacific Wheel Race gets under way, 16 March: dipping the rear wheels

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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