There has been significant effort to make Melbourne a bicycle-friendly city, though more work is needed for cycling to become a more dominant mode of travel. The City of Melbourne’s Bicycle Plan 2016-20 was endorsed by Council on 15 March 2016 to help realise our vision of becoming a cycling city.
The next step will be to implement the measures outlined in the Bicycle Plan to further improve our city’s cycling network including:
- increasing bicycle parking by 2000 in key public locations and installing bicycle maintenance stations and counters at entrances to the city
- creating local neighbourhood routes in Kensington, North Melbourne, Carlton and Southbank – connecting to schools, shops and community facilities
- improving connections into and through the city centre including a possible second bike friendly east-west connection through the central city. This would complement La Trobe Street and improve bicycle access and transit across the southern part of the central city.
