Meeting Update

11 January, 2008 – 4:02 pm

Melbourne Metro
Saturday 3pm, 12th January. CERES Cafe, 8 Lee Street East Brunswick. Don’t worry if you can’t make it, there will no doubt be further meet ups. A precis/minutes will be posted on the public transport list. More details here.

Geelong
From Russell: I am planning to be involved in the ‘Ban the Bike Ban’ Meeting on Saturday afternoon via Skype. For all Geelong based riders who want to be involved, come to Café 9 Zero 90 Pakington St, Geelong West, for the 3pm meeting – and send this on to whomever you think will be interested. – Russell Lindsay. P: 5222 3344 E: cafe9zeroAToptusnet.com.au

Are you organising a similar meet up, action planned or a media interview? Please leave the details in the comments & we’ll post them into the main article.

Some things to consider for any agenda or discussion at meetings

  • Short term goals
  • Medium term goals
  • Long term goals

    • Further background to what people have been discussing can be read in this email on the public transport list.

    1. 2 Responses to “Meeting Update”

    2. There are a lot single and dual mode bicycle trips to work (see table below) that involve bicycle use in Melbourne with accurate data from the ABS population survey in 2006.
      As cities grow the proportion of multimodal trips grows. The only multi modal trips that competes with the car trip to work is the bicycle/train trip (1142) and the most effective form of car sharing is by bike /car passenger (141). To reduce the demand for inner car parking which can be expensive the car driver/ bicycle trip (722). Bicycles have the potential to make better use of the train fleet, the commuter car fleet and the bus and tram fleets. This we know because nearly a million people travel this way in the Netherlands and over 7 million in Japan.

      Melbourne total single mode and multi-mode Bicycle travel to work

      Bicycles only 18909 (1.34%)
      Train, bicycle 1142
      Bus, bicycle 71
      Tram, bicycle 172
      Car as driver, bicycle 722
      Car as passenger, bicycle 141
      Truck, bicycle 10
      Motorbike/scooter, bicycle 28
      Bicycle, other 11
      Train, bus, bicycle 74
      Train, tram, bicycle 106
      Train, taxi, bicycle 8
      Train, car as driver, bicycle 59
      Train, car as passenger, bicycle 29
      Train, truck, bicycle 14
      Bus, tram, bicycle 9
      Bus, car as driver, bicycle 8
      Bus, car as passenger, bicycle 17
      Bus, motorbike/scooter, bicycle 3
      Bus, bicycle, other 3
      Tram, taxi, bicycle 4
      Tram, car as driver, bicycle 14
      Tram, car as passenger, bicycle 11
      Car driver, car pass, bicycle 31
      Car driver, motorbike, bicycle 8
      Car as driver, bicycle, other 3
      Car as passenger, bicycle, other 3

      Total Single & Multimode 21,603 (1.52 %)

      Walked only 50,893
      Worked at home 61,667

      By Alan A. Parker on Jan 12, 2008

    3. I use the bike-train method of transport several times a week. I see a number of ways to get around the peak ban: travel against the peak hour flow if you can, leave a bike at stations at both ends of your trip, train through zone 2 and 3 and cycle through zone 1, or get a folding bike. As for displacing other passengers, it must be a very minor problem according to the stats quoted by Alan Parker: train with bike only 0.07% of trips- hardly worth the bother of the ban.

      By John Merory on Jan 21, 2008

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