Matt Katzen

I love shade from awnings and tall buildings

Nothing better than routing your brakes to the wrong levers 😭

I would rather catch a longer tram than a shorter bus because at least I have faith it will arrive when tram tracker says. Tram tracker rules

Save the date: Critical Mass Yarra: Friday 31 January 2025: Meet 5.30pm, Friday 31 January 2025, State Library, Swanston Street, naarm, Melbourne. https://criticalmass.melbourne/ Many thanks to Sam Wallman for adapting his Freedom Machine design. Like it? Buy it! https://www.samwallman.com/store/freedom-machine-bike-poster

📰YarraBUG Jan 2025 Newsletter, hey it's a new year let's go

📌Announcing: Critical Mass Yarra Fri 31 Jan
📌Petition: Yarra Council: Don't risk our safety - tell council not to remove safe cycling lanes
📌Call out for support & volunteers

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Surrounding parks with highways and unnavigable stroads is a huge L. A great way to limit a cities green space usage.

I find the "cars=freedom" thing so funny because the history is actually very clear that the advent of mass motorism substantially weakened privacy rights and empowered the police.

Contemporary policing relies on roadside stops for a reason, the threshold for warrantless searches is much lower!

Many thanks to Sam Wallman for adapting his Freedom Machine design. Like it? Buy it! https://www.samwallman.com/store/freedom-machine-bike-poster

Announcing ... Critical Mass Yarra
5.30pm, Fri 31 Jan 2025, State Library, CBD

Riding through our traditional home grounds of Fitzroy, Collingwood & Richmond

Our safe, well-used protected bike lanes are at risk
criticalmass.melbourne

Antisemitism envoy criticised over 'dangerous' call to ban pro-Palestinian city protests Jillian Segal's comments have been described by one Palestinian advocate as "a thinly veiled attempt" to "silence critics of the Israeli government".

This genuinely scares me, as an Australian Jew

The refusal to accept legitimate criticism, and the awful accusation that legitimate criticism is antisemitic, is, imho, among the leading drivers of antisemitism, and paints our community in a very negative light.

It’s what I feared from the envoy

Council can do a lot to reduce carbon emissions from transport – and doing so would improve freedom and access for everyone, both those who can’t drive and those who can.

Density unlocks competition. Sleepy South Caulfield with the glow up.

Set backs still suck though
#apartmentwithasupermarket

Whats stopping women from riding in Melbourne? Val and Faith share their bike moments before taking a look at some of the news and happenings coming up in Melbourne lately. The Streets People Love website has been updated with those candidates who...

New! #3CR podcast: What's stopping women riding in Melbourne, Val & @postcardsfromnorth.bsky.social on PETAL project, #StreetsPeopleLove, Yarra for safe streets, The Everyday Lives of Delivery Workers’ exhibition @ Gig Workers Hub
www.3cr.org.au/yarrabug/epi...

There's something very frustrating about heritage listing apartments that are illegal to build elsewhere in the same suburb because of heritage policy.

But it's not "human scale", whatever that means

Building a safe and liveable Coppin Street - Your Say Yarra Share your experiences and ideas to help us make Coppin Street in Richmond safer and more liveable for everyone.

Consultation closes this Monday on the future of this little barrier
yoursayyarra.com.au/safer-coppin...

Have Yarra council considered Coppin St modal filter? I rode past it today and clearly cars don't use it

Great to see Transport Victoria’s new safety campaign for road workers. Now make one for people walking and cycling.

For over two decades, Yarra has been one of Melbourne's best areas to walk & ride. A newly elected conservative Yarra council is eyeing up removing vital infrastructure

Get involved to keep our streets safe & support your right to move safely > www.yarrabug.org/yarra-for-sa...

I park my bike up against a poll and get angry that there should be proper bike parking. Then I turn around and see these three lines 😍

From 2 to 1: Safe cargo bike parking at destinations we go to. Or even unsafe parking but not crammed onto the footpath

Somehow, Melbourne seems to be heading in the wrong trajectory at the moment.

If you’re interested in improving transport choices for folks of all ages and genders, shoot me a message and I’ll tell you how you can help. 💪👗🚴🏽‍♀️

Councils will do anything except use green asphalt

It looks like some evil council

Omnibus notes - Sophie Wade The ‘Omnibus’ motion ICYMI: One week ago today Yarra Councillors voted on a massive notice of motion that covered 36 completely different points. One of the things I know our residents really value ...

Decided I should capture my thoughts on last weeks “omnibus” motion, given 3 minutes wasn’t long to voice them.

TLDR; wrapping 36 disperate items into one giant motion and making decisions without proper process = ethically dicey and undemocratic 😬

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Make all new federal funding for passenger transit capital projects contingent on upzoning, streamlining, and removing parking requirements near stations.

Immaculate

That was the one I was actually thinking about! But Google Street view hasn't been updates yet. Caulfield South glow up is finally happening.

Wow that is damning. Blacktown council planners complicit in cartel behaviour.

I love how you are just supposed to teleport to your destination after the protection ends

My main housing, economic, and environmental policy is just "apartment with an Aldi". The absolute peak of urbanism. Any policy that gets us to having these all over Australia is good.

I have used that stop once. Never again