1. Transforming Albany into a Cycling City
from the Bottom Up
Murray Gomm
Albany Bicycle Users Group
2. Background
• Albany Bicycle Users
Group
– Established 2006
– First regional BUG in WA
Transforming Albany into a Cycling City from the Bottom Up
Murray Gomm
Albany Bicycle Users Group
5. Goals
• Connect dual use paths
• Bike lanes on arterial roads
• Improved end-of-trip facilities
Transforming Albany into a Cycling City from the Bottom Up
Murray Gomm
Albany Bicycle Users Group
6. Initiatives
• Identified priorities
• Funding
– Map
– Bike Week Cycling Treasure Hunts
– Cycle Friendly Businesses Project
– Lock up facilities
– On road signage
• Key reference group
• Letters of support for paths
Transforming Albany into a Cycling City from the Bottom Up
Murray Gomm
Albany Bicycle Users Group
7. Initiatives
• Submissions
• Focused Bike Week events
• Letters to key agencies
• Bike rack design competition
• Promoting solutions
• School bike ed initiatives
• Media releases
Transforming Albany into a Cycling City from the Bottom Up
Murray Gomm
Albany Bicycle Users Group
8. Strategic Advocacy
• WA Bicycle Network Plan
submission
• Solutions focussed strategic
political engagement
• Advocacy
– fix the biggest problem
– created Cycle City Albany
Transforming Albany into a Cycling City from the Bottom Up
Murray Gomm
Albany Bicycle Users Group
9. Solutions Focussed
• Minister for Transport
meeting request (May 2012)
• Stakeholder support
• Private sector support
• Requested
– $1.5 million
– Additional funds for
Cycle City Albany
• City of Albany planning
Transforming Albany into a Cycling City from the Bottom Up
Murray Gomm
Albany Bicycle Users Group
10. Cycle City Albany
• Transport Minister Troy
Buswell announces
$900,000 to plan and
build significant bike
network projects
(13/12/2012)
• City of Albany required
to match funds
Transforming Albany into a Cycling City from the Bottom Up
Murray Gomm
Albany Bicycle Users Group
11. City of Albany
• Bicycle Plan
• Mountain bike plan
• Construction underway
• Bike paths and trails “economic
and tourism drivers”
Transforming Albany into a Cycling City from the Bottom Up
Murray Gomm
Albany Bicycle Users Group
12. Transforming Albany into a Cycling City
from the Bottom Up
Murray Gomm
Albany Bicycle Users Group
