Yearly archives: 2017

The Advertiser has been anguished and Councillors Antic and Moran have been gloating over “plummeting” cycling levels. Yet we seem to see as many cyclists on the city streets as […]

The Draft Jetty Road Masterplan has a number of welcome features, including a 30km/h speed limit and a sensible way of dealing with the notorious Stop 16 tram stop.  (SA’s […]

The signs claiming there is a bikeway have been up for months, but residents have been told that Braund Road will be closed for construction of raised plateaus at the […]

As is usual with DPTI, we have been told what they intend to do after they have consulted with locals.  In the case of Main Road Belair, their plans would […]

The plans for the tram extension to East Terrace have been made public and its bad news for cycling. With trams having their own dedicated tracks and with passenger loading […]

The State Parliament’s Legislative Review Committee has established an inquiry into parking and traffic movement.  We have no idea of the agenda behind its establishment, but we couldn’t resist the […]

We have received a response to our letter complaining about DPTI’s plans for Main Road Belair. Our complaint was about the proposed narrowing of the road to provide a pedestrian […]

The 2017 update of the 30 Year Plan has been released.  You can find it at the LivingAdelaide website. The whole document is 17MB to download, but we have extracted […]

The state parliament’s Legislative Review Committee is conducting an inquiry into traffic and parking. The terms of reference are: The regulation by local government of parking and traffic movement in […]

We have uploaded an extract from the minutes of the Council’s meeting in May.  You can see the resolution here.

DPTI are putting in pedestrian crossings that will create squeeze points for cyclists. Main Road Belair is already a horrible route for cyclists but unfortunately the topography means that there […]

Our AGM will be held 6.30, 18 May. The guest speaker will be David Pisoni, MLA and Shadow Minister for Transport. Read more about the event here.

BISA’s campaign against badly designed bollards has reached parliament, with Minister Malinauskas promising to look into the issue, in response to questions by Hons Mark Parnell and Kelly Vincent. You […]

Bollards are often irritating, and many of us have damaged our bikes or ourselves by hitting a bollard. After a cyclist was killed last year by hitting a bollard in Goolwa, BISA has decided enough is enough, and is campaigning to get dangerous and unreasonably obstructive bollards removed.
We aroused the “disappointment” of the Adelaide City Council with this campaign, so to be fair to them, we are trying to find one of their bollards that meets standards set for bollards. A midi-sized Haighs chocolate frog will go to someone who identifies such a bollard.
But if none is identified, the frog will go to the person who identifies the worst bollard anywhere in South Australia. More to the point, we will campaign to get it removed!

Last night Cllr Abiad put up the motion that he foreshadowed, but added a variation: no part of the existing bikeway would be replaced until the section north of Pirie Street […]

The agenda of the special meeting to be held on Tuesday 7 March 2017 has been uploaded to our website. 20170307 Adelaide City Council Special Meeting Agenda The essential elements […]

BISA chair Fay Patterson has written to each Councillor of the Unley and Adelaide City councils before crucial votes are to be taken on the Rugby-Porter route and the Frome […]

The City Bikeways Consultation Report has been posted. You can find it here: 20170228 ACC City BIkeways Consultation Council Agenda paper It canvasses the views of businesses, residents, cyclists, professionals […]

Our recommendation in the January 2017 Pedal Update that you sue a Council if injured by a non-compliant bollard elicited “disappointment” from the Adelaide City Council.  You can read an […]

We’ve written letters to both the Minister for Transport and Infrastructure and the Lord Mayor seeking assurances that cyclists will be able to ride between the River Torrens and North […]