Minister signs off Sydney Gateway project with cycling conditions

The Minister for Planning and Public Spaces has, under section 5.19 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 (the Act) approved the infrastructure application (for the Sydney Gateway project) subject to the recommended conditions. As you may know, BIKEast has been active in ensuring this project adds to, rather than removes active travel provision […]

Westconnex New M5 – Active Transport Network (Cycling and Walking)

Westconnex – New M5, opening in 2020, will provide underground motorway tunnels, stretching from Kingsgrove to the new St Peters Interchange (SPI) spaghetti junction. This is covered in two main documents: Planning Condition B50 – Pedestrian & Cycling Network Review Planning Condition B51 – Pedestrian & Cycling Implementation Strategy The documents are quite lengthy, so […]

Cycling to Sydney Airport

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 […]