Report by the VBC Vice President (Campaigns) to the AGM 2002

During the last year (2001/2002) my two main tasks were to write submissions, articles, emails and letters on campaign issues of a technical nature for the VBC and the BFA.

My main campaign was to ensure that there was more funding for bicycle facilities in the 2003/4 financial year for which there was no funding commitment at all from minister Peter Batchelor. To address this problem many documents entitled with the following or similar titles were sent out and attached to many submissions as an appendix :-

“What happened to the Bikeway Network promised to Melbourne’s cyclists in 1991: why are we still waiting Prepared for the VBC , July 2001.”

This paper appeared as a 3 page article in the magazine Australian Cyclist September/October 2001 and was attached to the submissions of four other organisations to the Department of Infrastructure. We have reason to believe that $13 million is in the DOI indicative bicycle planning budget for the financial year 2003/2004 and that this increased level of funding is expected to continue. However that will require more lobbying in the years to come and will be the centre of my activities in the coming year.

As the VBCs contribution to the BFA I wrote write final submissions and conference papers for the BFA or prepared information and data for other BFA members to make a submissions or write conference papers.

I also responded to a hundred or so email requests for information on bicycle planning and safety issues from groups and individuals all over Australia.

SUBMISSIONS MADE dated from last to first.

1. “Submission by the Victorian Bicycle Coalition (VBC) regarding the Inner West Integrated Transport Strategy to the Department of Infrastructure, Metro West North Regional office.Date submitted ( 28-3-02)



2. “Submission by the Victorian Bicycle Coalition (VBC) regarding the Sustainability Strategy for WA”.Date submitted ( 18-3-02)



3. Draft Submission for BFA to the Infrastructure Planning Council’s Interim Report, October 2001. Date sent 7-3-02.



4. “Submission by the Victorian Bicycle Coalition (VBC) to the Infrastructure Planning Council's Interim Report, October 2001”.Date submitted ( 6-3-02)



5. Draft submission for the BFA regarding the Sustainability Strategy for WA”.Date submitted (13-2-02)



6. “Submission by the Victorian Bicycle Coalition (VBC) to The Hon Martin Ferguson MLA Shadow Federal Minister for Transport, regarding the failure to fund the National Bicycle Council and ALP Policy on bicycles. Date submitted 1 -8-01



7. “Submission by the Victorian Bicycle Coalition (VBC) to Parks Victoria regarding “Linking People and Spaces a Draft Strategy for Melbourne's Open Space Network”. Date submitted 28-11-01



8. “Submission by the Victorian Bicycle Coalition (VBC) to Peter Batchelor Victorian Minister of Transport regarding “The need for a new edition of the Melbourne Metropolitan Bicycle Route Maps”. Date submitted 16-10-2001.



9. “Submission by the Victorian Bicycle Coalition (VBC)to Mr John Wunch Manager Consumer Affairs Division,The Treasury Canberra regarding the SAA Standard DR00176 vehicle frontal protection systems”. Date submitted 30-7-01.



10. “Draft Town and Country Planning Association submission to Professor Lyndsay Nielson, Secretary The Department of Infrastructure regarding the metropolitan ‘bike lane network’ and ‘shared footway network’. Date submitted 17-7-01



11. Draft press release for the BFA regarding the failure to implement the Bikeway Network promised to Melbourne’s cyclists in 1991:by VicRoads. August 2001.



12. “Submission by the Victorian Bicycle Coalition (VBC) to the DOI regarding the failure to implement the Bikeway Network promised to Melbourne’s cyclists in 1991:by VicRoads. Submitted to the VBC, July 2001.”



13. VBC member group (PEST) Submission to Professor Lyndsay Nielson, Secretary the Department of Infrastructure regarding the importance of improved bicycle access and secure storage in growing rail patronage. Submitted 6-9-01



14. “Submission by the Victorian Bicycle Coalition to the Manager, Road User Behaviour,VicRoads, regarding the proposed changes to bicyclist/pedestrian law regulatory impact statement”, Date submitted 25-1-01

PEER GROUP REVIEWED CONFERENCE PAPERS DELIVERED

• Parker, A. A. (2001 C) Making cycling and walking safer in New Zealand and Australia: learning from the Netherlands experience. NZ Cycling Conference; transport for living 2001, 21st and 22nd September Christchurch.



• Parker, A. A. (2001 A ) A Non-motorised User’s Perspective on Safety Issues and World Best Non-motorised Safety Practice in the Netherlands, papers of the proceedings International Walking Conference 20th-22 nd February 2001, Perth Western Australia.



• Parker, A. A. (2001 B ) Making Walking and Cycling Safer: lessons for Australia from the Netherlands Experience. 24th Australasian Transport Research Forum, Zero Road toll a dream or realistic vision. Hobart Tasmania 17-20 April 2001.

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