Today’s NSW Local Council election, remember to check which candidates have supported active travel / cycling publicly – this will make a difference to whether cycling projects get supported or scrapped in the next 4 years – If you’re interested, feel free to check voting history – eg. who at Randwick Council 2024 voted to […]
In November 2021, BIKEast surveyed the candidates for the upcoming NSW Local Government Elections (4 Dec 2021) to gauge their attitudes and support for improving cycling conditions in Sydney Eastern Suburbs. Below are the results. Woollahra Download the full candidate answers. Waverley Download the full candidate answers. Randwick Download the full candidate answers. Bayside Download […]
You may have seen our previous Cycling to Sydney Airport post highlighting that the Wentworth Ave shared path doesn’t quite connect to Pagewood / Eastgardens / Banks Ave. Bayside Council has been working with Transport for NSW and a shared path is being constructed between Baker to Corish. Before After Note – for the moment […]
The Local Strategic Planning Statements (LSPS) are currently out for community consultation. The Local Strategic Planning Statement will provide guidance on: where future housing, jobs and services will go type of development that will occur what the character of the Local Government Area is and will be in the future. Have your say and help […]
In March 2019, BIKEast organised a ride to investigate existing and future cycling connections to the Botany foreshore and around the Botany / Banksmeadow area. This is the route we took: Link to Strava route Note: BIKEast do not recommend crossing Foreshore Rd North at Hale St – this was a intentional investigation to identify […]
In September 2018, BIKEast rode around the Sydney Airport and surrounding areas to check out cycling access and facilities currently available. Visitors are a small percentage of the users of active travel to Sydney Airport. BIKEast’s main concern is encouraging and supporting the thousands of airport workers with safe active travel options to get to work. Many workers […]
Local Government Elections for Randwick, Waverley, Woollahra and Bayside Councils will be held on Saturday 9 Sep 2017 BIKEast has written to candidates to gather information on policies that they and their parties will promote if they are successful in the upcoming local government elections. Candidate answers below. Randwick Detailed responses at Randwick candidate responses […]