YarraBUG Radio on 3CR
Listen into YarraBUG Radio, broadcasting every Monday at 10am 3CR Community Radio 855am and streaming live on the web at 3cr.org.au.
- Go to the YarraBUG Radio website
YarraBUG Radio’s presenters are Faith Hunter, Val Nagle, Steve Barnett & Chris Star, we all have very diverse and long term cycling interests and no doubt if you’ve spent any time on a bike around Melbourne you’ve probably met one or all of us at some point.
YarraBUG Radio will encourage people to join in the sheer fun of bicycle riding and to also raise awareness in sustainable transport issues.
We would like our show to be for everyone, cyclists or not and we would love non-cyclists to be in our audience.
YarraBUG Radio is based in the inner suburbs of Abbotsford, Alphington, Burnley, Carlton North, Clifton Hill, Cremorne, Collingwood, Fairfield, Fitzroy, Fitzroy North Princess Hill and Richmond.
More articles:
- Melbourne Times: On their bikes and on air (September 25, 2008)
- Yarra Bicycle Users Group Radio on 3CR
December 12, 2013 at 11:39 am
Hi,
I just wanted to congratulate you for pushing the issue of physically separated bike paths with regards to Wellington st (I have just been listening to the 25 Nov 3cr podcast).
Physical separation is one of my bugbears and it’s great to hear someone taking it seriously. I only just got back into cycle commuting years after getting off lucky from a collision on a back street. That was just a few months after getting back from a few year of daily cycle commuting in Amsterdam on physically separated paths so you can probably understand why I connect the issues. To me of course cycling is an ecological imperative but at the same time, on-road cycling for any long period with regularity in Australia is a recipe for disaster – we demand 5-star safety from our cars but somehow a star ratings somewhere in the negatives is accepted for bicycles.
Even in the CBD, despite the amazing expansion of cycling in recent years, I am still dismayed with the lack of physical separation. I ride from Broadmeadows to Carlton off road for 95% of the way – but if I decide to be lazy and ride to/from Southern Cross station I have to take my life into my hands. Not good.
Anyway to sum up, I reckon cycling now has the critical mass to assert the need for physical separation without drawing the entire notion of cycle commuting into question – so go for it.