Encouraging and supporting cycling in the Inner West
News and new additionsThe Leichhardt Big Bike Day was held on Sunday 21 September 2003. Click to view photos from the day.
Download the latest Inner West Bike Events calendar for October and November 2003 (word doc)
Read about and download the HCAT Inner West Bike Map
To learn about the HCAT project, read the HCAT FAQ
Or download the May 2003 Progress Report to the NSW Environmental Trust (550k pdf)
About the HCAT project
The Hawthorne Canal Active Transport (HCAT) project has been established to help make the inner-west of Sydney an even more vibrant and pleasant place to live and work by promoting and supporting cycling in the area.
The HCAT project aims to:
"research, implement and evaluate innovative measures aimed at promoting and facilitating increased cycling trips in the Hawthorne Canal corridor"and is being supported by four local Councils ( Leichhardt, Marrickville, Ashfield and Canterbury, Marrickville and South Sydney Bicycle User Group (MASSBUG), Leichhardt Bicycle User Group (LBUG) and funded by the NSW Government's Environmental Trust.
The project staff are working with local organisations ("trip generators" such as workplaces, shopping centres, schools and swimming pools) to take simple and affordable steps to encourage people to cycle. Cycling is a healthy, cheap, environmentally-friendly form of transport and recreation that most people can enjoy. It is the ideal transport mode for short trips of 1-5 kilometres which are over a third of all journeys.
Actions undertaken as part of the project include providing information (such as maps of cycling routes), helping improve conditions for cycling (for example, through increased bicycle parking and cycleways), conducting events (like family bike days) and running bicycle maintenance, riding training and a buddy system for new cyclists.
The HCAT project is designed for the inner-west, where parking is at a premium, where many residents are looking to improve their health and fitness and where there are already quiet back streets and green spaces which make ideal cycling routes. The HCAT project complements local community efforts to establish a Greenway corridor from Iron Cove to Cooks River.
Contact the HCAT project: email hcat@lmc.nsw.gov.au or phone the Mobility Coordinator, Gabrielle Kuiper on 0410 324 942
The website hosting and email list for the HCAT project are kindly provided by Cat@lyst, a local anarchist technology collective.
This project has been assisted by the NSW Government through its
Environmental Trust
The HCAT project was initiated by the Marrickville and South Sydney Bicycle User Group (Massbug)
