Safety
Living on a safe street
We’d all like to live on a safe street. A place where you can walk, the kids can play, and where it’s safe to ride a bike.
What makes a street safe, that’s the question? The simple answer is to make them “people friendly” rather than giving preference to cars.
Bike Safety
Click the above heading for information on why a Metre Matters, where in Australia this rule is already established, and the necessity to have Victoria join with the rest of Australia.
https://youtu.be/4sp0IlGXmTU
BikeSpot Safety
BikeSpot 2020 received over 31,000 submissions (spots, comments and ‘likes’) overall in the 2 month period between 31 March 2020 and 31 May 2020. This is an increase of 260% from of the BikeSpot project conducted back in 2016.
Click here for the top 5 findings
The law
Victorian Road Rules.
Its important to know your rights, limitations and obligations as a pedestrian or cyclist. Here’s a link to the detailed Road Rules .
For bikes
The rules have been summarised below by the Victorian Law Foundation
Scroll up and down or click to enlarge or pop-out for ease of reading.
For Walkers
Victoria Walks has excellent resources including this summary of how the law works for pedestrians.
Whitehorse Active Transport Action Group Inc. 