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Spring onto your bike for Ride to work Day

Posted on October 13, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Wednesday 17 October 2012 is Ride to work Day with thousands of people taking to their bicycles, tricycles and even unicycles to get to work, school or university. If your driving to work tomorrow, please take care, as always, of cyclists and welcome if this is your first Ride to Work Day as a cyclist.

Fawkner is safer than many other suburbs for cycling within the suburb with no major through roads and lots of quiet residential streets and the Upfield Bike Path, Merri Creek Bike Path and the Western Ring Road Path which all border the suburb.

For Ride2Work Day Moreland City Council have organised a community breakfast in Victoria Mall, outside Coburg Library, Coburg between 7.00am and 9.00am. Enjoy a healthy breakfast to help you on your way to work. Some of us will be riding down the Upfield Bike Path from Box Forrest Rd to enjoy the community breakfast before heading off to work or school.
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No extension of Zone 1 to Gowrie Station in Baillieu 2012 budget

Posted on May 13, 2012 by | 2 comments
Time for Gowrie Station to become Zone 1

Upfield train approaching Gowrie Station

Gowrie Station remains as a zone 2 station after the State budget was handed down on May 1. Local residents of Fawkner and Hadfield have been pressing for Gowrie Station to be changed to Zone 1 status in a campaign over the last year.

In January Bronwyn Halfpenny, the local State member for Thomastown who represents Fawkner in State parliament, called on Transport Minister Mr Terry Mulder to tell Fawkner residents why “they must pay zone 2 public transport fares from a rail station that should clearly be in zone 1”. She explained in a news article in January 2012 in the Moreland Leader that Gowrie’s zoning is an anomaly and an inequity to local residents.
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Thumbs up to new bikepath through Charles Mutton Reserve

Posted on April 22, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Bill Cawte, Cycling activist and regular commuter through Fawkner gave his thumbs up to a new bikepath constructed by Moreland City Council through Charles Mutton Reserve. The previous informal path was likened to a hippopotamus wallow according to Bill Cawte’s tweet on April 18, 2012 (see below).

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Ride to School Day Friday 23 March 2012

Posted on March 22, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Friday 23rd March is National Ride to School Day. If you have children encourage them to travel to school through active travel. Fawkner is safer than many other suburbs for cycling to school with no major through roads and lots of quiet residential streets. If your driving to work tomorrow, please take care, as always, of children journeying to and from school by walking, cycling, scooting or skating.

Here is some information from Bicycle Victoria. Visit the Bicycle Victoria Ride to School website to register:

National Ride to School Day 2012

More than 200,000 primary and secondary students will take to the streets across Australia tomorrow using bikes, scooters, skateboards or simply walking as part of National Ride2School Day. The annual event is Australia’s largest celebration of an active journey to and from school.

At many schools, 100% of students will arrive under their own steam and then take part in a host of school-based festivities including parades, breakfasts and community rides.
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