	{"id":62037,"date":"2022-11-25T04:47:10","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T17:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/geelongtimes\/?p=62037"},"modified":"2022-11-25T09:26:43","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T22:26:43","slug":"back-pedal-high-st-bike-lane-rejection-leads-to-strategy-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/geelongtimes\/news\/back-pedal-high-st-bike-lane-rejection-leads-to-strategy-review\/","title":{"rendered":"BACK PEDAL: High St bike lane rejection leads to strategy review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE City of Greater Geelong council will go back to the drawing board for its cycling strategy after councillors again voted down a plan to build bike lanes along Belmont&#8217;s High Street.<\/p>\n<p>The city will review its Principal Bicycle Network (PBN) and undergo more consultation with community members and state authorities to update the strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Councillors had been due to vote on awarding a $2.8 million construction contract to build new bike lanes from Belmont to Waurn Ponds, including the High Street shopping precinct.<\/p>\n<p>The project is a key pillar of the existing PBN, which outlines a &#8220;strategic cycling corridor&#8221; along High Street from the Barwon River to Geelong Ring Road, as part of a wider strategy to &#8220;provide cyclists with safe, accessible, and connected cycling routes within Geelong&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The city had $2.3 million in funding from the Transport Accident Commission (TAC) to build the cycling link, which received council support in April 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Councillors <a href=\"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/geelongtimes\/news\/city-backpedals-on-belmont-bike-lanes\/\">voted to delay a decision on the contract in July<\/a> after hearing concerns from local business owners and have now voted to revisit the strategy altogether.<\/p>\n<p>The plan had angered traders along the busy Belmont strip, who raised concerns with loss of street parking and business impacts.<\/p>\n<p>Broader community concerns including safety and the project&#8217;s planning process also contributed to councillors rejecting the idea.<\/p>\n<p>Cr Ron Nelson moved an alternate motion for the city to &#8220;instigate a strategic review&#8221; of the PBN with help from the Department of Transport, Regional Roads Victoria and TAC, and &#8220;include further feedback from the community&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is an opportunity for us to reset and make sure we get this right for the people of Geelong, for cyclists and every road user,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need to build the right bike paths in the right places, not just say &#8216;we&#8217;re getting more money, we may as well spend it&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll get the community onboard and build the right bike paths in the right places, for everyone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cr Nelson said the state authorities and TAC had indicated their willingness to discuss alternatives to the current strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Cr Belinda Moloney referenced concerns with the implementation of stage one of the Building Better Bike Connections project at Moorabool and Gheringhap streets and welcomed a chance to review the existing plan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This has caused a lot of community angst and frustration, and rightly so,&#8221; Cr Moloney said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve had feedback from seasoned riders saying the first step implementation wasn&#8217;t great.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If something is implemented and is broken, then we need to revisit that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cr Anthony Aitken said the change in approach was overdue and said the city needed greater strategic guidance for its active transport planning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We support bike lanes, what we don&#8217;t support is developing infrastructure that creates division in the community,&#8221; Cr Aitken said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Authorities are not on the same page, so we ended up not having winners and losers, we had losers and losers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need to take ourselves out of the mire that&#8217;s occurred on these issues and look at this from a strategic standpoint.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE City of Greater Geelong council will go back to the drawing board for its cycling strategy after councillors again voted down a plan to build bike lanes along Belmont&#8217;s High Street. 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