NEW SOUTH WALES BIKEPLAN NSW Bikeplan Acknowledgments
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
NEW SOUTH WALES BIKEPLAN NSW BikePlan Acknowledgments The following NSW Government agencies undertook the May 2010 preparation of the NSW BikePlan on behalf of the Premier’s www.shapeyourstate.nsw.gov.au Council for Active Living: © Crown Copyright 2010 NSW BikePlan project team NSWTI ISBN 978-0-9807464-3-3 Roads & Traffic Authority Department of Environment, Climate Change & Water Disclaimer NSW BikePlan steering group While every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that this document is correct at the time of printing, the Communities NSW – Sport & Recreation State of NSW, its agents and employees disclaim any and Department of Education & Training all liability to any person in respect of anything or the Department of Planning consequences of anything done or omitted to be done in Department of Premier & Cabinet reliance or upon the whole or any part of this document. NSW Centre for Road Safety NSW Health Copyright Notice NSW Transport & Infrastructure PCAL Manager In keeping with the NSW Government’s commitment to encourage the availability of information, you are welcome to reproduce the material that appears in the NSW BikePlan for personal, in-house or non-commercial use without formal permission or charge. All other rights are reserved. If you wish to reproduce, alter, store or transmit material appearing in the NSW BikePlan for any other purpose, request for formal permission should be directed to Roads & Traffic Authority, NSW BikePlan, Locked Bag 928, North Sydney NSW 2059. contents Foreword: Premier 3 Foreword: Minister Assisting the Minister for Transport and Roads 4 The NSW BikePlan: Get on your bike – and ride 5 01 Introduction 7 The Metro Sydney Bike Network 10 02 Create connected cycling networks 15 The River Cities Bike Program 16 50/50 funded local cycleways 18 Connecting cycle networks in Greater Metropolitan Region centres 21 03 Make bike-riding safe for all 27 04 Plan cycling-friendly neighbourhoods 35 05 Grow jobs in cycling 43 06 Get organisations working together to support bike-riding 49 07 Next steps: NSW BikePlan partners, priorities and progress-reporting 58 Picture credits 68 Select bibliography 68 NSW BikePlan 1 Overview of NSW BikePlan consultation and technical studies Interested individuals, community groups, The following study reports were completed local councils and other institutional to provide data and information for the stakeholders provided input to the preparation NSW BikePlan: of the NSW BikePlan at a number of events • Cycling in New South Wales – What the organised or attended by project team data tells us, PB partners, including: • Evaluation of the costs and benefits to the • NSW Government ‘On Your Bike – increasing community of financial investment in cycling cycling for short trips’ conferences: Sydney, programs and projects in New South Wales, Newcastle, Shellharbour PricewaterhouseCoopers • Bicycle NSW BikePlan regional consultative • Barriers to cycling in NSW, AMR Interactive workshops: Wagga Wagga, Mudgee, Coffs Harbour, Sydney, Newcastle, Nowra • The provision and use of bicycle parking at Sydney region public transport interchanges: Written comments were invited via email to Results of facilities audit and cyclist [email protected]. Approximately 150 questionnaire, PB submissions were received. Issues raised are overviewed in: • Model subregional bike planning studies for Bondi Junction (GTA Consultants), • PCAL New South Wales BikePlan Community Brookvale–Dee Why (PB), Dubbo (Urban Arc), Comments Review , PB (August 2009) Hornsby (SKM), Hurstville (PB), Penrith (GTA Consultants), Port Macquarie (Arup) For further information on these activities, and to access all NSW BikePlan study reports, see www.pcal.nsw.gov.au The NSW BikePlan project team thanks all stakeholders for their assistance and input. 2 NSW BikePlan forEword premier Cycling is an increasingly popular and This NSW BikePlan is not only about important mode of travel. Many of us now building new places to ride a bike. It is ‘take the gym to work’ and more are riding also about providing people with the for exercise and fun. skills and knowledge they need to know where to ride, and how to ride confidently Helping more people make the and more safely. It is about promoting choice to ride needs safe paths and cycling as a mainstream means of good wayfinding. transport for everyday use. Our cycleways program will connect key Our NSW State Plan sets an ambitious missing links and support councils in joining target of five per cent travel by bike for all up their local routes into one cycle network. trips in Sydney of less than 10 kilometres We are investing in the 131500 Transport by 2016. The new NSW BikePlan outlines Info service to ensure that bike routes are how we can make this happen. easy to find for a range of levels of ability. I look forward to people all across NSW We also want to make sure that everyone getting on their bike for work, school and can plan trips that incorporate cycling in a play. It’s a great way to get around and the multi-modal journey. benefits are clear for our health and our In the Metropolitan Transport Plan the environment as well! NSW Government committed to delivering a plan for cycling in NSW. This has now been achieved with the completion of the NSW BikePlan. Kristina Keneally MP The NSW BikePlan outlines how our Premier of New South Wales agencies will work together – and in partnership with local councils, ‘I’m personally committed to communities and businesses. helping everyone who wants to get on their bike for a cleaner, greener state and a healthier life.’ NSW BikePlan 3 forEword Minister ASSISTING THE MINISTER foR TRANSPORT AND ROADS The NSW BikePlan focuses on how cycling Our commitment goes beyond Sydney. can help make our cities and towns more We are determined through this sustainable, easier to get around, safer and NSW BikePlan to set the active transport better connected. strategies and investment priorities that will help shape the whole State. The NSW It’s a Statewide plan that will benefit all BikePlan also focuses on connections regions. It focuses on tourism opportunities in regional centres like Newcastle for regional NSW and emphasises pleasant, and Wollongong. riverside connections for Parramatta, Penrith and Liverpool in our growing We want to change the way people get metropolitan region. around in cities and towns across NSW. As an alternative option to getting in the Riding a bike is a great way to get around. car and one that is so environmentally It keeps our air clean, our bodies healthy friendly, we want more people to view and our streets moving. Cycling can reduce cycling as an attractive transport choice our impact on the environment and improve and even as a great holiday option. our connection to our local community. Cycling is essential to an integrated The NSW BikePlan’s initiatives will make transport network and can be one of the cycling more practical and will help people most enjoyable ways to get to work, visit to ride confidently and safely. friends or travel to shops and services. This is a great opportunity for NSW to take The Metropolitan Transport Plan recognises advantage of a sustainable, fun and the importance of cycling by committing healthy transport option – making it a great $158 million over ten years to fill gaps in time to get out on your bike and ride! Sydney’s network of cycleways. Through the NSW BikePlan’s initiatives ‘We are determined through we will improve cycleway connections this NSW BikePlan to set the in Western Sydney – a region of great david Borger MP active transport strategies and economic significance to NSW and Minister Assisting the Minister for investment priorities that will help Australia – to provide a modern, Transport and Roads shape the whole State.’ environmentally friendly way to get around our growing city hubs. 4 NSW BikePlan T he NSW BikEPlaN Get ON YOUR BIKE – AND RIDE The NSW BikePlan will help make NSW one of the world’s best places to ride • more bike parking and facilities Cycling is important to regional and a bike. Following the Metropolitan Transport Plan’s $158 million commitment for cyclists at local centres, country NSW. More than half of the to improve urban cycle networks, the NSW BikePlan details the State’s largest workplaces and public transport international cycling tourists who cycle program to date. The NSW BikePlan outlines how the NSW Government interchanges (page 38) and come to Australia have NSW as their will work in partnership with local councils, communities and businesses to • professional resources to shape riding destination. grow bike-riding over ten years. sustainable, active communities To maximise the direct economic (page 35). The extraordinary surge in cycling The NSW BikePlan outlines a ten-year benefits of cycling outside in NSW over the past decade has bicycle infrastructure plan, including The NSW BikePlan features metropolitan areas, the NSW helped combat congestion and encouragement actions to make Government will • $80 million over ten years to make healthy physical activity part cycling as easy and accessible as connect Sydney’s district centres • promote cycle tourism in country of every day. Riding a bike can walking or driving a short distance by by building missing links in the and regional NSW destinations improve quality of life and reduce Metro Sydney Bike Network • developing an internet portal to (page 43) the pollution produced by driving. (page 10) and cycling information, including • encourage recreational bike-