From David Blom
(President) Metro East Bicycle User Group (MeBUG).
Maps and images are borrowed from Monash Interactive Maps and from Google Maps.
Below is the story of the Dandenong Rd service lane bike route, which has been whittled away and is no longer continuous. There are many opportunities to turn service roads into safe bike routes all over Melbourne, low-cost, low-impact on car users but high-value for bikes.
Council will hear submissions on the Budget 2025-26 and Revenue and Rating Plan 2025-29 on Tuesday 17 June 2025. Meeting starts at 5.30pm and the budget is last item on the agenda, so it won’t start at 5:30.
Continue reading »This post is reposted from https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/melbournes-budget-needs-future-ready-plan-michael-smith-5pwuc/
Michael Smith was a candidate at the recent City of Melbourne elections and comments here on the draft 2025/26 budget for the City.
Continue reading »We sometimes get contact from “experienced” bike users who aren’t used to protected bike lanes. Originally raised on r/Melbournecycling, you can read all the anti-protected bike lane comments, as well as some suggestions to improve the new lanes.
Continue reading »Detailed recommendations are on the Streets People Love website.
Continue reading »Updated with details of construction and dates 19/2/2024.
Detailed information provided by City of Melbourne. This project has been in design for several years, waiting for Victorian Government Department of Transport approval.
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Continue reading »January 2023, some detours, changes to road layout
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The rollout of protected bike lanes has left an old road rule out-of-date and incompatible with the new road layouts.
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