Black poster with yellow text Wear what you want Ride what you want that’s all there is to it

There can be some gatekeeping in the cycling community so just remember that when it comes to biking there are only two rules:
Wear what you want.
Ride what you want

don't let anyone tell you differently.

Via @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social

Critical Mass: St Georges Road — STREETS ALIVE DAREBIN Join Us for Critical Mass!   Meet State Library, 5.30pm Thursday 25 September 2025 (Grand Final Eve) Ride to St George's Road Intersection & post ride drinks and chat at Terminus...

CRITICAL MASS: ST GEORGES ROAD
Meet 5.30pm State Library, naarm Melbourne CBD, Thur 25 Sept 2025 (Grand Final Eve)
Ride to St George's Road intersection then post ride drinks and chat with @darebinstreets.bsky.social friends!

streetsalivedarebin.org/journal/crit...

criticalmass.melbourne

Foreign-owned gas corporations are getting over half the gas they export from Australia for FREE.

The gas industry is ripping Australians off, and our governments are letting them.

✍️Add your name to the call to tax the gas industry properly theaus.in/increasePRRT #auspol

Who cycles in Fitzroy North? 🙋🏻‍♀️

The intersection of Scotchmer and St Georges Rd is important - lots of local shops and cafes.

Yet I often have people tell me how dicey they find it on a bike and on foot.

Let us know your thoughts: yoursayyarra.com.au/transport202...

#cycling #bike #pedestrian

“The sad story of our misadventures in ensuring the nation benefits from the export of its gas is told in a report by the Australia Institute.”

Read Ross Gittins' op ed in The Sydney Morning Herald on untaxed gas exports and why the Government won’t change this.

@rossgittins.bsky.social #auspol

YouTube video by Streets Alive Yarra Elizabeth Street

Streets Alive Yarra president made a submission to Council, asking for the protected bike lanes on Elizabeth Street to be retained. Sadly, Council voted to drastically narrow them to increase on-street parking.

youtu.be/ah0TMQnbApc

Elizabeth Street protected lanes back at Yarra Council meeting tonight, starts at 6.30pm, watch livestream here:
www.yarracity.vic.gov.au/about-us/com...

Alt motion emailed to Yarra councillors as circuit breaker?
drive.google.com/file/d/18F__...

Backgrounder: www.yarrabug.org/yarra-for-sa...

The whole point of the Safeguard Mechanism, Australia's key climate policy, is to limit emissions.

Instead, it's HELPING fossil fuel companies pollute.

It’s even giving them money!

#auspol @ketanjoshi.co

We’re hoping to turn this road into a park! 🌳

With only 0.3% of land in Collingwood being open space, we are in dire need of more..!

Keep an eye out for more news on the proposed park for Mater St. 💚

#urbangreening

Proof that it can be done!

Road deaths are not inevitable and there is A LOT more that can be done to prevent them.

For more info on how London can achieve Vision Zero, read @carolinerussell.bsky.social's latest report: www.london.gov.uk/sites/defaul...

Kai, a public housing resident, closed his statement simply:
“I signed the documents because moving out was compulsory. I had no choice.”

Kai wasn’t given an interpreter.

He was made to sign with no real understanding - “my English is not very good,”.

This is what forced relocation looks like.

Pictures of trams around Australia, and the Sunday evening frequency. Gold Coast 15 mins, Sydney (pic by MDRX, via Wikipedia) 15 mins, Canberra (pic from PTCBR) 15 mins, Adelaide (pic from Torrens Connect) 20 mins, Newcastle (pic by Tim J Keegan via Wikipedia) 15 mins, Melbourne 30 mins

Waiting for a tram home tonight?
Melbourne has the least frequent evening tram services in Australia. #MoreServicesNow

Let’s be cleared eyed about what’s happened here.

The Australian Government has misrepresented scientific evidence to successfully lobby UNESCO members to ditch conditions to protect Murujuga from Woodside’s acid gas emissions.

This is all about protecting Woodside, not Murujuga.

Why experts want to raise one of Australia's least popular taxes

"If the Australian government wants to fill this tax blackhole without hurting low-income households, it could broaden the GST so that it applies to private school fees and private health insurance," said @richarddenniss.bsky.social, speaking to 9 News.

www.9news.com.au/finance/gst-...

Connecting five municipalities, the Province of Utrecht's brand new 23-kilometre-long F28 cycling route offers residents a safe, convenient, efficient, and economical way to get from home to school, work or social activities, or surround themselves in nature, all without having to step inside a car.

Tax reform isn't hard - slug multinationals and subsidise the things we want more of - The Australia Institute Taxes are the price we pay for civilisation, but they are also a tool we can use to change the shape of our economy, not just its size.

Tas reform isn't hard: slug multinationals and subsidise things we want more of – @ebonybennett.bsky.social

"In Norway, they tax the gas industry and subsidise young people to attend university for free. In Australia, we subsidise the gas industry and charge our kids a fortune to get a degree."

New priority crossing for folks on foot and bike on the Capital City Trail! 🙌

I championed this crossing last term (including after lobbying from grade 5s!), and am proud to see it delivered (the last item of our 2020 council’s last budget). 💚

#edinburghgardens #cycling #bikepath

Norwegian researchers have completed successful trials of a revolutionary underwater energy storage system that uses deep-sea pressure to generate power on demand — offering a clean alternative to batteries in coastal grids

Please share.

Another unnecessary gas inquiry. Australian gas could be for Australians first tomorrow. - The Australia Institute The federal government's review of the gas industry, announced today, is unnecessary and not fit for purpose.

Another unnecessary gas inquiry: Australian gas could be for Australians first tomorrow.

All sides of politics have acknowledged that there is no gas shortage, with Chris Bowen telling the Press Club that Australia has “plenty of gas.”

Our research shows 80% of Australia’s gas is exported. #auspol

As the US chooses destruction over diplomacy in Iran, Australia has to decide between principle and prostration | Allan Behm Australia, like Little Sir Echo, whimpers after the world’s premier bully bombs the ‘bully of the Middle East’

"An erratic & temperamental Trump is once again poised to take the US into a war that will end in failure.

"It is a pity that the Albanese government is not yet ready to assert and advocate the moral dimension of the “good international citizenship” that Labor govts love to talk about."

Allan Behm

City of Yarra mentioned in this review of an e-scooter:

thedriven.io/2025/06/04/e...

Get ready for Critical Mass Big City Lights! Join us this Fri 30 May 2025, 5.30pm, State Library, Swanston St, naarm Melbourne. It's dark, bring all your bike lights + reflective material!

📲 Find the route, Spotify playlist & Critical Maps right here: criticalmass.melbourne

Make fossil fuel exporters pay for the damage they are causing, not ordinary Australians Climate change is making natural disasters like fires, floods, heatwaves and drought worse, costing Australians billions every year. Make fossil fuel producers pay a climate disaster levy to help pay...

Tragic to see the flooding across NSW. As these disasters get more common and more severe, we should make fossil fuel exporters pay a climate disaster levy.

So that those causing the damage pay for the clean-up, not ordinary Australians.

Add your name > theaus.in/fossilfuelco...

Woodside's North West Shelf gas export project: a disaster on five fronts - The Australia Institute Australia Institute analysis reveals Woodside’s North West Shelf gas export project is driving up WA energy prices, threatening the state's domestic gas reserves, paying even fewer royalties, corrodin...

A decision on the whether to extend Woodside's North West Shelf gas export project by another 50 years is impending.

Environment Minister Murray Watt has promised to make his call by May 31.

Extending this massively polluting project would be a disaster on 5 fronts:

This gas export project will emit more than 4 billion tonnes of emissions, further corrode Australia’s priceless Murujuga rock art, and drive up energy prices.

Join over 16,400 people who have already signed our petition to the Minister for the Environment. Murray Watt, to reject the NWS ⤵️

"If this was somewhere else in the world, there would be a national outcry.

"The pollutants that are coming out of those Woodside stacks are actively degrading the rock art surfaces.

"It's incontestable."

🎙️Professor of Archaeology Benjamin Smith
#savemurujuga #auspol

Melbourne cycling infrastructure plan risks getting stuck in low gear if feeder networks not considered: new research A new study highlights how far Melbourne still has to go in becoming a cycling city, warning the state government’s plan for strategic cycling corridors must be complemented by local government effort...

'A new study highlights how far Melbourne still has to go in becoming a cycling city, warning the state government’s plan for strategic cycling corridors must be complemented by local government efforts to make local streets safer for cyclists.' /1 www.rmit.edu.au/news/all-new...

Meanwhile someone messaged me this morning after seeing a driver try to hit a cyclist (twice).

Almost like this kind of vitriol directed towards people who ride bikes has real world consequences… 😔