Critical Mass North returns!
💞Critical Mass North💞
1️⃣ Meet 5.30pm, Friday 25 October 2024, State Library, Swanston Street, CBD
2️⃣ Pick up point: Carlton Gardens corner @ Nicholson and Gertrude Street
3️⃣ Heading due north & dress for seasonal conditions🕸️💀🕸️
4️⃣ Ride together, stay safe: read about corking + massing up
5️⃣ Running late? Download Critical Maps to find us on the day
6️⃣ Bring your on-bike sound systems for our Spotify playlist: Critical Mass North 25 Oct 2024
7️⃣ Speakers: Sally Moxham MC, Ruth Jelley, Dr Molly Hoak, Tony Morton
8️⃣ Organised by Streets Alive Darebin, Streets Alive Yarra, Yarra Bicycle Users Group
9️⃣ Have fun with all your new friends: here’s a CM October 2024 poster you can download or print
🔟 Bookmark criticalmass.melbourne for future rides
Speakers
Sally Moxham and Dr Molly Hoak are Streets Alive Darebin members.
Dr Molly Hoak is a local parent and pram user very affected by inaccessible tram stops and a lack of safe spaces for children.
Ruth Jelley is a workers’ rights activist, a renter, campaigner for women’s rights, founder of Streets Alive Darebin and a Greens candidate for Darebin City Council.
Tony Morton is President of the Public Transport Users Association and a lifetime resident of Melbourne campaigning for sustainable transport and against car dependence. He was a participant in the first Melbourne Critical Mass rides in 1995 and has been involved in campaigns from the push for Rowville Rail in the 2000s to stopping the East West Link in 2014.
Why Are We Riding to High Street Northcote?
High Street is one of the biggest local issues that Streets Alive Darebin hears from people about. It is a source of constant complaints about near misses and crashes with drivers and it’s inaccessibility to locals who travel by bike.
High Street is surrounded by people, especially families, who use bicycles as part of their everyday trips.
Local schools have very high active travel rates and yet it is rare to see these people, families especially, shopping or visiting High Street.
Shopping strips like High Street rely overwhelmingly on locals for business, and this is reflected in how people currently get to High Street.
High Street has parking behind the shops in Northcote, and opposite The Croxton Hotel and across from Psarakos as well as in and around the shops aside from on High Street itself
Safe separate bike lanes are needed along High Street Northcote
At the moment there are Victorian Government clearways during the morning and afternoon peak along High Street that make it a thorough fair and dangerous for cyclists and pedestrians
Given the decline in in store shopping the works on designs for the accessible trams stops there is a opportunity to future proof High Street and ensure cyclists safety
This report: Good-for-business.pdf (heartfoundation.org.au) case studies in making streets more walking and cycling friendly. These examples have shown that safer and friendlier street environments:
Increase retail rental values.
Significantly increase pedestrian and cyclist activity.
Generate more business and stimulate the local economy.
Revitalise 'drive-through' districts into lively places that people want to visit.
Encourage people to spend time outside of their homes.
Reduce noise levels.