Bicycle Network: Funding & Budgets

Applications for the second round of funding closed on 15 January 2010. Announcements about successful projects are expected throughout 2010.

$30 000 could be spent on a number of useful bicycle projects. Here are some thought starters.

• A bike parking shed at a school that is getting the students to walk and ride ($20 000)
• On street bike parking near where you see bikes locked to trees and meters in a strip shopping centre. 70 stainless steel rails installed in asphalt or concrete.
•  Install a bike lane. 500m of painted bike lane (both side of the road)
• Upgrade a painted lane with rumble paint around 400m
• Repair washed out section of path. 300m of off road gravel path
• Treat a couple of intersections with green paint in the approach lanes. 200 sq m of green paint installed.
• Half of a Parkiteer cage structure
• Upgrade sections of bike path. 100m of 3m wide concrete path - this could be used to improve the approach to a road crossing for example
• Install bike parking in a commercial car park. 200 parking rails installed on an existing concrete wall for example in an underground car park
• Replace wooden planks on 5 x 10m long bike path bridges. 100m of Replas decking to replace existing decking on a sound foundation for example
• A composting toilet for a trail - $20 000 installed
• Three wombat crossings to help students get to school (3 x $10 000)

$150 000 in an urban regional Council:

• One km of shared path leading to the railway station
• Improve walking and riding access at the entrance to a school with kerb outstands, raised crossing and landscaping.
• Install an underpass where a road has cut a creek path. Cut the road, install box culvert reinstate road.

Urban fringe:

• Bus or rail station. $150 000 will install two Parkiteer cages for 26 bikes each without operating and management costs.