Opinion
Cyclist deaths have risen by nearly 50 per cent since the introduction of road laws aimed at increasing their safety. Morry Bailes questions what’s gone wrong.
News
Newly-appointed Greens MLC Robert Simms says South Australia would become the first state in the country to appoint a Walking and Cycling Commissioner, under proposed legislation he plans to introduce next week.
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A $3 million state government grant originally set aside for the now-scrapped east-west city bikeway will be spent on other cycling infrastructure projects in the CBD.
An Adelaide City councillor who helped vote down the east-west bikeway has called on Town Hall to spend up to $20,000 on a plan for new CBD bike routes.
An Adelaide City councillor who helped vote down the east-west bikeway has called for Hindley, Waymouth and Franklin Streets to be made one-way to make room for two-way bikeways and wider footpaths – but another councillor has already attacked the idea as a “brain fart”.
Adelaide should be the most cycle-friendly city in Australia, but a deeply-ingrained regressive approach to transport policy has killed the most basic attempt to improve CBD roads, argues David Washington.
