[bikeqld] 9.6 million cycle trips a year in Brisbane (but no published data?)

[Anthony Lee]

Hi Mich,

Thanks for that here is the full text.

I wondered how many trips that is compared with cars because it would be good to do a percentage comparison
to see whether the council's spending is actually proportional to usage. I suspect we have a strong case of 
discrimination. Just look at Coro Drive!

Anthony

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I’m still learning—I’ve got the bike. I’m just a little wobbly. I know that I’m probably—yes, training wheels would be good. However, Brisbane City Council will be hosting an exhibition at Bike Week and also providing journey planning sessions to help all cyclists find the shortest, safest route around the city. And I also note that we now have an incredible number of people cycling into the city. And at the last count, the number of cyclist trips on Council’s bicycle network was more than 9.6 million a year, amounting to around 200,000 journeys a week. And I know there’ll be some other Councillors in this place riding to work, as well as Councillor ABRAHAMS and Councillor
[4277th (Ordinary) Meeting – 17 March 2009]
SUTTON.
I know that Councillor BOURKE will be. And I know a couple of the other Councillors are doing their Active School Transport first day. Councillors interjecting. Councillor PRENTICE: Oh, Councillor ADAMS, great. Councillor OWEN-TAYLOR, that’s great. I look forward to seeing you all. Turning to the information report, we had an excellent presentation on that great new initiative of the Farmers’ Markets in Reddacliff Place. And as we all know, they’re every Wednesday now, from 11 am to 6 pm, in Reddacliff Place, at the top of the mall. And these are the Farmers’ Markets. And despite the very wet weather last Wednesday, we still had people queuing for those wonderful chocolate brownies and cheese kranskies, as well as genuine fresh food and fruit and vegetables. And Jan Power was saying just what a wonderful success it was. She said there’s a waiting list of stall holders, because of the great initiative by this Council, and indeed the Queen Street
 Mall’s Advisory Committee. And it was an outstanding day, despite the rain last Wednesday, which was the second time we’ve had this event. And I think everyone’s really enjoying this wonderful opportunity. We believe that it’s started off very successfully with some great publicity. And Jan Power asked me to personally congratulate Brisbane Marketing for their support and assistance with this great event. So I encourage all Councillors, if you haven’t been already, every Wednesday, 11 am to 6 pm at Reddacliff Place

 Anthony Lee
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From: mich rolling <xdollarfuel at yahoo.com.au>
To: bikeqld at bikeqld.org.au
Sent: Friday, 15 May, 2009 12:41:18 AM
Subject: [bikeqld] 9.6 million cycle trips a year in Brisbane (but no published data?)


See the speech by Cr Prentice at the bottom of page 41 of the
BCC council meeting for 17 March

http://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/bccwr/_assets/main/lib534/council_minutes_17march2009.pdf


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