Skating in the city

Skaters are welcome in the City of Melbourne.

Sharing busy city streets with others can be tricky, especially when trying to dodge shoppers, prams, pets and small children. The City of Melbourne has guidelines for skaters and other footpath users, to help avoid conflict (or worse, collisions) on our streets.

Skate Safe

The City of Melbourne encourages all young people to use the city, including skaters. The Skate Safe program aims to talk to skaters as peers. A skaters code of conduct, Skate Ambassadors, maps and other information encourage skaters to consider other footpath users and share the space. It also adresses busy routes and No-Go zones, or limited access to make it easier for everyone to get around our streets

Since the program was launched four years ago, thousands of skateboarders and businesses have been engaged with great results. The ambassadors communicate with businesses understand skaters and help to solve issues with skating behaviours.

Skate Ambassadors

It’s important that skaters skate as safely as possible and follow advice on where they’re allowed to skate in the municipality. The Skate Ambassador Program is a peer education program to encourage skateboarders to ride safely in the City of Melbourne.

Skate Ambassadors, who also work as skate services officers at the Riverslide Skatepark, promote a ‘skating code of conduct’ and educate skaters on safe skating practices in and around the CBD during the Christmas school holidays as part of the program. The ambassadors also collect statistics on how many people are skating in the city, where they are skating, what they like to skate and what they would like changed at the Riverslide Skatepark. 

The ambassadors also help businesses throughout the municipality understand the best way to engage with skaters to reduce confrontation if issues arise.

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Skating information

If you are looking for specific skating information, look at the list of pages below, and you might find what you need. Otherwise, try our skating links page (see below).

• Riverslide Skatepark
• Skate smart and enjoy the ride 
• Skaters on the street 
• Skaters and the law
• Zones for skaters
• Skating injuries
• Skating outside the city
• Skaters' views
• More about skating