TREVOR Budge is on a mission - he wants more bikes on roads and wants motorists and cyclists to feel comfortable in sharing the city’s streets.
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Mr Budge is encouraging business owners and workers to consider joining a weekly bike ride through city streets in an effort to get residents out of cars and cycling to work.
It’s part of a wider transport planning strategy in which the city is mapping future growth and needs, the City of Greater Bendigo strategy manager said.
“While we have fabulous bike trails in Bendigo we don’t have a lot of people using our roads to ride to work,” Mr Budge said. “What we want to do is make it the norm to see lots of people riding bikes around the city, rather than the unusual.”
Benefits of riding to work or using bicycles to attend meetings within the city centre included saving green house gases, removing cars from busy roads, saving on vehicle running costs and parking fees and improving general well being, he said.
