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Active Whitehorse News – February 2023
- An old story?
- Cancer research
- Scooting around
- Back to school
- Take away the cars
- Too much traffic
- A well earned award
- Top 10 child health problems
- Starting small
- Underwater bike parking
- Walk fast age slower
- Efficient use of space?
- Thanks Esme
- Save our Canopy Trees
- Eastsider News – not to be missed
- Interested in being Active too? Here’s how
- Some questions for YOU
- Your view
Active Whitehorse News – December 2022
- Christmas get-together
- Ride and Stride
- Some welcome news
- Is your library like this?
- E-cargo bike trials
- Talking of triangles…
- …and trikes
- A great place to be
- Too much traffic?
- Box Hill Mall – your ideas wanted
- An opportunity to help
- One trip at a time
- Visionary friends
- Please help me…
- Another update
- Walk fast age slower
- Eastsider News – not to be missed
- Interested in being Active too? Here’s how
- Some questions for YOU
- Your view
Active Whitehorse News – October 2022
- An impressive policy outcome
- A very special event?
- This IS a special event
- Getting Physical
- How active are you?
- All you have to do is ask
- Community in Action
- A good strategy
- An engaging idea
- Keep thinking
- Your local street?
- What is a safe active street?
- A goldfish’s view of electric cars
- Eastsider News – not to be missed
- Healesville Freeway Reserve
- Interested in being Active too? Here’s how
- Some questions for YOU
- Your view
Active Whitehorse News – August 2022
- Welcome and Thanks
- Give a nudge? Or make a difference?
- Sip’n’Nibble and Chat too
- Walkability
- Things we like: Walk-friendly city centres
- The wonder drug
- An update
- Covid or cars – which is the most deadly?
- Is this crossing potentially deadly?
- Carmageddon
- No short cuts to get low traffic
- Something to think about
- Eastsider News – not to be missed
- Interested in being Active too? Here’s how
- Some questions for YOU
- Your view
Active Whitehorse News – June 2022
- Just one minute will inspire you
- We all want more of a good thing
- Are electric cars “part of the solution”?
- What-do-your-children-think?
- No more lip please
- Are we walking tall but not thinking big?>
- Better streets for [insert your suburb here]
- Winter reading
- Free public transport?
- A national approach is needed
- What we’d love to see
- A Sip’n’Nibble anyone?
- A Farewell and a Welcome
- Working with the best
- Eastsider News – not to be missed
- Interested in being Active too? Here’s how
- Some questions for YOU
- Your view
Active Whitehorse News – April 2022
- Out of the mouths of babes
- Roads and streets. Is there a difference?
- A bicycle built for … three?
- Locally in Whitehorse
- The Car That Wanted to be a Bike
- Paying the toll
- Active travel and Climate Change
- Beat climate change with solar
- Does age matter?
- Active 3 & 4 year olds
- Walking and cycling to the Election
- Interested in being Active too? Here’s how
- Some questions for YOU
- Your view
Active Whitehorse News – January 2022
- A word from our sponsor
- Sacrifices we make
- Too old?
- One small step…
- … it’s not complicated
- Is this the key to success?
- It’s easy to forget…
- … but Berliners remember
- Summer reading
- Is there another way?
- Have you heard the standard response?
- Back to the ’50s for progress
- Its child’s play
- Victoria’s DoT Safe System fails
- It’s no joke – just Irish logic
- Melbourne bike paths – a blessing or a curse?
- Interested in being Active too? Here’s how
- Some questions for YOU
- Your view
Active Whitehorse News – November 2021
- Box Hill and the SRL
- Car trips or care trips
- A positive outlook
- What’s bad?
- Leading, not trailing!
- Who are the streets for?
- Placemaking and tactical urbanism
- A champion’s view
- Grandma is normal
- Lost liberty
- Is 30km/h practical?
- A way to help
- E-Bike Workshop
- Interested in being Active too? Here’s how
Active Whitehorse News – August 2021
- Easy Ride Routes are here
- The Best of British Luck
- Making local and busy places safer
- Box Hill – let’s get the planning right
- A loopy connection?
- Uncertain planning
- Picture a possible future
- It’s time for more
- The last word
- Interested in being Active too? Here’s how
Active Whitehorse News – June 2021
- Budget time
- Good Vision
- On track to be trackless?
- Looking back and forward too
- Road to Zero
- Walk or drive? Why it matters
- Who needs a car anyway?
- Saving lives beyond 2020
- Whitehorse proposed budget 2020-21
- Your perfect neighbourhood
- A metre matters more… now!
- 50 Reasons…
- Bikenomics…
- The last word
- Some questions for YOU
Active Whitehorse News – April 2021
- Is 30km/h coming to a city near you?
- Predicting the future
- The promise of urban vitality
- Encouraging walking and cycling isn’t hard
- Imagine this
- More about 30km/h
- New electric bikes?
- How to cut travel time
- A metre matters
- The last word
- Some questions for YOU
Active Whitehorse News – February 2021
- Normality
- Lets make this normal
- This could be normal too
- How to change things
- Amanda wants change
- Sarah wants to change herself
- Australia wants change too
- Your choice
- Interested in being Active too? Here’s how
- Some questions for YOU
Active Whitehorse News – December 2020
- Oh to be 30 again!
- If 30 is good, what about 20?
- 20 or 30…it’s “What Australia Wants”
- Cycle lanes or cycle tracks – do we need them?
- The story of the flying train
- Cycling’s technological transformation
- Changing travel behaviour
- Traffic Lights favour cars
- Cycling cities for the young
- Imagine this future
- Big ideas to keep the city moving
- Level crossing removal – Surrey Hills & Mont Albert
- Whitehorse Council election results
- A picture tells a thousand words
- Interested in being Active too? Here’s how
- Some questions for YOU
Active Whitehorse News – September/October 2020
- Your Choice
- Well done Whitehorse
- Living on a safe street
- Do you keep good company?
- School travel
- Footpath width and walkability
- Walking and cycling – which one prevails?
- A bicycle has always meant freedom!
- Who invented the bicycle?
- An OLD favourite?
- Or EVERYONE’s favourite?
- Power and responsibility
- Walking: best, free and healthiest
- Active Transport is healthiest
- Driverless cars or less car drivers?
- Dumb traffic lights
- How to build a car-lite city
- Car-lite city or light car city?
- Do YOU like being taken for a ride?
- Are suburbs unsafe for kids?
- Is 30km/h what we need?
- BikeSpot Survey 2020
- Interested in being Active too? Here’s how
- Some questions for YOU
Active Whitehorse News – July/August 2020
- Its hard to make progress
- A World Wide Welcome
- Active streets – the new normal
- Small successes are sweet
- Recycled plastic roads
- A car is a car is a car!
- Peddling around the world
- Streets for people
- The challenge of car-dependency
- Are cargo bikes a lot of rubbish?
- Want to end congestion?
- Covid car-clogging. How to avoid it
- Walking economics
- Active travel studies
- Smarter helmets
- School travel
- The future and your say in shaping it
- Learning from Covid-19
- Let’s insert ‘al’ into Austria if we can!
- Interested in being Active too? Here’s how
- Some questions for YOU
Active Whitehorse News – May/June 2020
- Active Transport for Everyone
- But being active isn’t always easy!
- Whitehorse budget inequity
- The Economics of Walking
- What If?
- Know your rules
- What’s a bike boat?
- A survey – Our life at home
- First Victoria-built electric bus
- 8 Principles to Better Sidewalks
- Bikes don’t scare off customers
- Bike or Gym?
- Dunlavin Rd and Rooks Rd
- Transformation IS possible
- Box Hill – Here we come?
- Box Hill ITS update
- Micromobility
- Eastern suburbs rail link
- Interested in being Active too? Here’s how
- A question for YOU
Active Whitehorse News – March/April2020
- Danger at Dunlavin?
- BikeSpot
- Activity and Covid-19
- Walking is great
- Why does gender matter?
- What’s a WOONERF?
- Can high density living work here?
- How do YOU feel about electric scooters?/a>
- Bicycles set to conquer the 2020’s
- The 20 minute neighbourhood
- Here’s a challenge
- Ten simple policies to subtract cars from our treets
- Does Tweeting help?
- Trackless Trams
- Higher air pollution health risk inside car, study finds
- A penny for your thoughts
- Box Hill Integrated Transport Strategy
- Transport is a moving experience
- Interested in being Active too? Here’s how.
- A question for YOU
- Help needed!!
Active Whitehorse News – January/February 2020
- What’s a great city all about?
- Why is this photo very good!
- Walkable Streets are More Economically Productive
- It’s official: Cycling to work – you may live longer!
- New research: Walking and transport in Melbourne suburbs
- We can’t do that!
- Cutting Car Addiction
- Oslo cut road deaths to one in 2019. Can we do the same?
- Fat cyclist and very proud!
- It really pays to cycle
- Why we moved our family to the Netherlands
- How electric bikes can make cities safer
- NEL Bidders – Please take note.
- Interested in being Active too? Here’s how.
- A question for YOU
- Help needed!!
Active Whitehorse News – November/December 2019
- Australian and New Zealand teenagers among most inactive in the world
- Here’s a little quiz to see how engaged YOU are
- Bike Buddies
- Active Transport – just for the enjoyment of it!
- Vienna makes it safer
- Active Transport Priority?
- Could YOU crush your car and go carless?
- Kids Raised in Walkable Cities Earn More Money As Adults
- Bryant Park – possibly the busiest place you’ve never heard of!
- Seven steps Melbourne can take to regain its ‘liveable city’ crown
- For a longer life get moving
- Australia’s top 20 sports and physical activities revealed
- Box Hill to Ringwood Shared User Path – Laburnum section
- Become your own expert
- PLUS info about Whitehorse Council, Walks Victoria, Whitehorse Cyclists and more…
Active Whitehorse News – September/October 2019
- A Spring Festival
- Now that Spring has Sprung are you all in a Twitter?
- Making it safe for the less-than-fit
- Back to the Future?
- Leading from the top?
- Cycling for shopping and with kids clearly is possible!
- Want some real inspiration?
- More on Kids & Bikes
- Study shows sport not helping teens
- NEL – NOT the final word, but a very good one!
- Help needed!!
- And more…
Active Whitehorse News – Special Box Hill Edition
Have your say about the future of Box Hill
Active Whitehorse News – May/June 2019
- Whitehorse Budget Blues – Sport Australia’s AusPlay data supports WATAG’s concerns
- Bicycle Ballet
- Box Hill – Where is it headed?
- Who says cycling is only for the super fit?
- Are Freeways a knotty problem? – What’s happening with NEL?
- High praise for Skyrail
- Bus stations can be great
- Is it really 10,000 steps?
- When cycling is just normal
- NIMBY or not?
- Children in the car era
- And more…
Active Whitehorse News – March/April 2019
- Box Hill Development
- Further reading about the best in city design
- What’s your view (about cyclists)?
- A positive note from Norway
- Do we ever learn?
- Help needed
Active Whitehorse News – January/February 2019
- Safety myths
- New Year resolutions for you
- The standard response
- Some thoughts on infrastructure
- Who is it for?
- Lessons learnt from Melbourne’s Sky Rail
- If its not OK to walk it, why is it OK to cycle it?
- Maximise opportunities when they arise
- Good advice
- A cycling Mecca?
- Wombat crossings
- NEL update
- Can we do it?
Active Whitehorse News – November/December 2018
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- Walkable streets
- One or more wheels!
- Building strong communities
- Road rage – the sad facts
- Swapping seats – who can see who
- Box Hill – Ringwood shared path
- A Metre Matters
- More traffic?
- Bike helmets
- NEL update
Active Whitehorse News – September/October 2018
- Whitehorse Biketober…how you can join in.
- The Happiest Children in the World
- Box Hill- some ideas to make it great
- Free Parking?
- Why Walking & Cycling are Good for Business
- Super Highways and Quietways
- North East Link – the effect on Whitehorse
- Snap Send Solve – now official
- Spring Festival Whitehorse style
- Keeping up-to-date with the news
- Not so Fast – slow down in residential streets
- A Biketober Film Festival
Active Whitehorse News – July/August 2018
- More about exercise …and walking
- Pedestrian road fatalities – what’s the reason?
- Footpath riding – a law change in NSW
- London pedestrians get the green light
- What’s new at WATAG website?
- Where is Box Hill headed?
- Update on North East Link
- Snap Send Solve bouquet
Active Whitehorse News – April/May 2018
- Active Transport is great for your health
- Cycling $$$ – what’s planned, and what should be allocated?
- Pedestrian friendly city centres – including Box Hill MAC
- Getting around safely – across the kerbs and on shared paths
- NELA – an update
- Women and Active Transport
- Sharrows are coming
- and more….
Active Whitehorse News – February/March 2018
Active Transport in Whitehorse – Whitehorse City Council is holding the first Active Transport Forum aimed at making Active Transport an important part of the future of Whitehorse… Plus many links to some very thoughtful and informative web resources.
Active Whitehorse News – December’17/January 2018
2017 Active Transport Survey – WINNER announced.
North East Link information and how WATAG is putting a view forward. Institute of Traffic Engineers and RACV – views from the Presidents.
Active Whitehorse News – October/November 2017
2017 Active Transport Survey is now open.
WATAG has launched its online survey to get a wider community view about people’s present use of Active transport to travel to activities which are part of their everyday lives… Plus…an update on the Whitehorse Health and Wellbeing plan, VicRoads excellent proposals to upgrade three major corridors for walking and cycling. And more…
Active Whitehorse News – August/September 2017
Cycling to work: major new study suggests health benefits are staggering
Research has consistently shown that people who are less physically active are…more likely to die younger… Plus: Box Hill to Ringwood Shared use path through Laburnum…VicRoads plans, and much more…read more
Active Whitehorse News – June/July 2017
Wombat Crossings save lives … LOTS of them!
In the April/May 2017 newsletter, WATAG suggested that Whitehorse should use of Wombat Crossings for pedestrians and cyclists to use, instead of the simple ramps recently installed…read more
Active Whitehorse News – April/May 2017
New Blackburn Creeklands Crossovers
Two new crossovers have been installed on the Gardiners Creek Trail at Pakenham St to link the Blackburn Creeklands shared paths in Kalang Park with Blacks Walk. One crossover for the northern path, and one for the southern path… read more
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