St Kilda Road bike lanes
Sam HIBBINS (Prahran) (09:46): This weekend our community gathered to celebrate the opening of the new St Kilda Road separated bike lanes, including bike riding activists and groups like Port Phillip and Stonnington bike user groups, Bicycle Network and many others. I was really pleased to be joined by my fellow MP Kat Copsey and local councillors Mike Scott and Tim Baxter as well. There certainly was a lot of love for these separated bike lanes, certainly something I have been pushing for since I was first elected. What a long journey it has been for well over a decade to get them on St Kilda Road, where they were first proposed a very long time ago, with so much advocacy and campaigning since then from community and councils as well – a really massive effort. Now they are in, they fit right into the road, making riding along St Kilda Road so much safer and much more enjoyable. They really now need to be the beginning of a network of safe, separated bike lanes right across metropolitan Melbourne. If we are serious about supporting people to make the shift to cleaner, cheaper, more climate friendly forms of transport, we need more safe, separated bike lanes just like we have on St Kilda Road.