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Transport:
NRMA attack on bikes bad move for all road users
Media Release - 10 January 2008

Greens MP and transport spokesperson Lee Rhiannon today rejected the NRMA's criticism of public money being spent on cycling lanes and has again called for five per cent of the RTA's budget to be allocated on a safe, integrated cycle network.

"The NRMA's agenda is to stop the construction of the Epping Road cycleway and further cut the current allocation for cycle facilities", Ms Rhiannon said.

"The NRMA's anti-cycleway campaign is a crude attempt to boost money for road building. Its time the NRMA leadership came into the 21st century and recognised that encouraging more cyclists is an easy way to reduce road congestion.

"The NRMA's submission to the RTA is grossly misleading. Half of the M2 cycleway has been removed and the Epping Road cycleway has not been completed so it is not surprising that bike use is low on these routes.

"Overall bike use is soaring. In 2007 bikes outsold cars for the eighth consecutive year with a record 1.47 million bikes sold.

"Cycling trips to work grew at an average 22 per cent across Australian capital cities.

"The RTA should not again give in to the NRMA's demands. In 2005 the NSW government slashed bike and pedestrian funding by nearly two-thirds of what it was. The current budget is only about $8 million, about 0.2 per cent of the roads budget.

"The Greens are calling for five per cent of the RTAs budget to be allocated to cycling facilities and for the restoration of the position of General Manager, Bicycles and Pedestrians Branch of the RTA. This position was abolished when Mr Michael Costa was Roads Minister

"Many of the recent cycleways in Sydney have been built on the cheap and set up to fail as they put cyclists in the midst of heavy traffic and are half finished roads to nowhere.

"The provision of cycling infrastructure alone will not boost cycle use. A safe, secure network of on-road and off-road cycling routes with more bicycle parking and end-trip facilities such as showers and lockers would result in a big boost in cyclist numbers", Ms Rhiannon said.


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