{"id":196,"date":"2018-08-26T19:00:39","date_gmt":"2018-08-26T09:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwbc.org.au\/?p=196"},"modified":"2018-08-27T16:34:25","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T06:34:25","slug":"inner-west-council-bicycle-working-group-bwg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwbc.org.au\/index.php\/2018\/08\/26\/inner-west-council-bicycle-working-group-bwg\/","title":{"rendered":"Inner West Council Bicycle Working Group- BWG"},"content":{"rendered":"

After lobbying by IWBC during the recent Council elections the Council, through a motion by Cr Drury and other supportive Councillors, agreed to set up a Bicycle Working Group<\/a>, to take the place of the Bicycle Advisory Committee on the old Leichhardt Council. It isn’t a Council Committee, that is it won’t report directly to Councillors at Council Meetings, but minutes will be taken and available to Councillors through a bi-monthly “Local Democracy” report. The Working group is open to anyone to attend, and relevant staff will provide reports and answer questions.<\/p>\n

Terms of reference<\/strong><\/p>\n

“The Group is constituted as a Working Group and not a Committee of
\nCouncil, minutes of each meeting will not be presented to a Council
\nMeeting for formal adoption. Rather updates from Working Groups would be
\nprovided to Council as part of a bi-monthly Local Democracy report.<\/p>\n

The Group can request Councillors to bring matters before Council by way of
\nCouncillor Notice of Motion process.<\/p>\n

Working Group participants can request agenda items at meetings or through the
\nGroup Manager Roads,Traffic & Stormwater.”<\/p>\n

The first meeting was held on June 16,2018.
\nReports were given on the status of bicycle projects including
\nLR03- Livingstone Rd
\nLR07 \u2013 St Peters Station to Tempe Station
\nLR16 – Addison Rd
\nLR18 – Dulwich Hill Station to Marrickville Station
\nRR02 – Parramatta Rd to Marrickville Park
\nRR07 – Longport St, Petersham to King St, Newtown
\nand Lilyfield Road cycleway
\nby Manager of Transport Infrastructure Predrag Gulelj, and an overview of transport planning and the aims of Council to promote Active Transport (walking, cycling, public transport) was given by Ken Welsh, Senior Transport Planner, worth a read, along with the Integrated transport Strategy 2016 for the former Leichhardt Council.<\/p>\n

A worrying aspect of the amalgamation is the need for the new council to develop new Transport Plans, tying together plans from the three former councils. This will take 2 to 3 years (see Ken’s timeline in his presentation) and they said the new Inner West Bike Plan will have to wait until that is done. I am hoping it can be done in conjunction or some other means found to keep projects coming through for implementation. Ashfield Council never had a bike plan so one is urgently needed so that RMS will provide funding- a necessary condition.<\/p>\n

Ken Welsh- presentation on Strategic Planning Context<\/a><\/p>\n

Predrag Gulej- Projects Update -21.6.18<\/a><\/p>\n

Minutes are available from the Council Working group web site link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After lobbying by IWBC during the recent Council elections the Council, through a motion by Cr Drury and other supportive Councillors, agreed to set up a Bicycle Working Group, to take the place of the Bicycle Advisory Committee on the old Leichhardt Council. It isn’t a Council Committee, that is it won’t report directly to … Continue reading “Inner West Council Bicycle Working Group- BWG”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwbc.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwbc.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwbc.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwbc.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwbc.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwbc.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwbc.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwbc.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwbc.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwbc.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}