{"id":4631,"date":"2024-06-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yarrabug.org\/radio\/?p=4631"},"modified":"2025-04-06T00:57:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T13:57:31","slug":"yarrabug-radio-show-803-monday-17th-june-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yarrabug.org\/radio\/2024\/06\/17\/yarrabug-radio-show-803-monday-17th-june-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"YarraBUG Radio Show #803 Monday 17th June 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

‘We present to you, the only bike path from The West to the CBD ..’<\/a>: on this weeks show Chris catches up with Pierre Vairo from Bike West <\/a>about the seemingly intractable issue<\/a> of either communicating or providing safe, fit for purpose active transport infrastructure for western suburbs residents, especially with images from last week where Moonee Ponds Creek trail users were forced to navigate between the flooded path and creek<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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We present to you, the only bike path from The West to the CBD. But it doesn’t have to be this way, there’s a new SUP bridge linking Dynon Rd to West Melbourne. ‘Rainbow Bridge’ has been finished for months, but remains unopened.’ Screenshot: BikeVic West on x\/twitter, 12 June 2024<\/sub><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Local news includes The Cargo Revolution Premiere<\/a> on Wednesday 10th July 2024, a documentary about cargo bikes in Melbourne, the new Grattan Street protected bike lanes in Carlton<\/a>, recent European city initiatives to decrease speeds in urban areas<\/a> and what you can do to support 30km\/h in Yarra<\/a>. (google docs link)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We discuss the Westgate Tunnel closing down alternate routes<\/a>,\u00a0WTG Veloway,<\/a>\u00a0the yet unopened ‘Rainbow Bridge’ over the North Melbourne railyards<\/a>,\u00a0Angus Collins’ preventable death in February 2023<\/a>, the never ending saga of the Federation Trail<\/a>,\u00a0two recent incidents on Dynon Road<\/a>,\u00a0a\u00a0hit run incident<\/a>\u00a0<\/a>last week,\u00a0Joseph Road Precinct Action Group<\/a>\u00a0advocacy and the overall callous indifference by decision makers and road users alike towards bike riders. You can contact BikeWest<\/a> with your stories and also\u00a0Melissa Horne,\u00a0Minister for Roads and Road Safety<\/a> and Gabrielle Williams,\u00a0Minister for Public and Active Transport<\/a>\u00a0with your concerns<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sound on for Solidarity<\/a>: and repeating again it’s 3CR radiothon time, since 2008 Yarra Bicycle Users Group Radio<\/a> has broadcast on 3CR in naarm Melbourne, shared hundreds of bike moments, spoken to countless guests, interviews, rides, cycling events, alongside raising awareness about campaigns and advocacy you simply won’t hear anywhere else in mainstream media<\/p>\n\n\n\n