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Like most normal people, I like bikes and urban planning 🇦🇺
What happens when rolling downhill?
February 15, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Also an example of how consumers suffer from protectionist trade barriers - in this case, stopping imports of bananas into Australia.
February 15, 2025 at 7:39 AM
What was the logic behind reducing prices for these particular groups?
February 15, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Are you going to start regulating bikes rolling down a hill? Because for perhaps over 100 years, bikes have been rolling down hills at the same speed that people think is a problem for e-bikes…
February 15, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Couldn’t agree more. Deregulate e-bikes. Regulate cars. Society wins.
February 15, 2025 at 7:03 AM
The image needs more dominoes. I was already an extremist before kids. Post-kids I’ve enter a new stratosphere of intergalactic level mega extremism.
February 15, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Worth checking out. The CBD is now completely transformed. Multiple linking thriving pedestrian malls. Vibrant outdoor dining. Easy and convenient public transport options.
February 2, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Does Brisbane hate Sydney so much that the article simply cannot bring itself to look to George St and Pitt St as examples of successful pedestrian malls? There are many lessons for Brisbane there.
February 2, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I’ll take a city fully of ebikes- modified or not - 100 times out of 100 over a city full of cars and trucks. Make the changes to get cars and trucks out of cities and all the pearl-clutching issues around ‘illegal ebikes’ will go away.
January 6, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Isn’t the issue here the lack of proper infrastructure to accommodate the delivery riders? This forces them into conflict with pedestrians. Focussing on speed or incentives misses the real point.
January 6, 2025 at 8:46 PM
And they’ve certainly done their best make it aesthetically unappealing too
December 28, 2024 at 7:26 PM
No scores for airport active travel options? I think adding this would just extend Syd’s lead though
December 20, 2024 at 9:47 AM
Shanghai Pudong
December 20, 2024 at 9:30 AM
Counterpoint - this level of security is appropriate for someone with a large and fanatical group of supporters that might intervene while he’s being transported… it’s not there to stop Luigi
December 20, 2024 at 12:27 AM
What the actual fuck is that fire truck? Seriously that’s what a smallish town in a developed world country uses? I had no idea 😂
December 18, 2024 at 1:32 AM
Massive fan of this. The obvious solution for share e-bikes in cities is using on-street ‘car’ spaces.
December 12, 2024 at 9:15 AM
This has to happen. In fact, it barely goes far enough, by still leaving a 9 hole course. Golf courses have no place in urban centers. Centennial Park next door absolutely heaves with people during week days - and especially on weekends.
December 11, 2024 at 4:43 AM
Gurgaon, India (and yet thousands of people are forced to walk every day)
December 6, 2024 at 5:23 AM
… notice the slip lane death zebra crossing outside the Metro station. This is then topped by a signalised pedestrian slip lane crossing on the other side of the road, which cars and pedestrians ignore.
December 5, 2024 at 12:47 AM
December 5, 2024 at 12:47 AM
I have very much been enjoying these. Balmain FB groups are exceptional entertainment.
December 2, 2024 at 12:45 PM
e-scooter and e-bike share schemes shouldn’t have docks or any designated parking.

If there’s pedestrian space conflict, which is , in aggregate, rare, take space from the roadway.
November 26, 2024 at 9:46 PM
This project is emblematic of everything that is wrong with TfNSW. Wtf are they even doing?! So much shadiness, fake consultation, secret car-brained decision making…
November 25, 2024 at 10:14 PM