Waverley Council is proud to present our draft Bike Strategy and Action Plan for community feedback. This comprehensive strategy builds upon our 2013 Bike Plan, which has been largely implemented and has already delivered impressive results. This includes a 20% increase in cycling activity across Waverley since 2021 and a remarkable 350% increase in rider numbers on the Bondi Junction cycleway.

The draft strategy aligns with several key council frameworks including our People, Movement and Places Strategy, Community Strategic Plan, and Environmental Action Plan, as well as addressing our Declaration of Climate and Biodiversity Emergency. It establishes an updated vision for Waverley as a place where bike riding is a comfortable mode of local travel, recognising that most key destinations in our area are accessible within a 15-minute bike ride.

This vision has been directly shaped by extensive community consultation conducted between 2021 and 2024, including surveys, interactive mapping, and stakeholder workshops. You can find detailed information about community input that informed the strategy in section seven, "What our community says," starting on page 20.

Through this consultation, we are now seeking your additional input on the draft strategy to ensure we continue creating vibrant, inclusive, and sustainable communities with safe, comfortable cycling options for residents and visitors of all ages and abilities.

Before answering the survey questions that follow, please read the strategy and action plan.

Read more about our vision and objectives on page 6 of the draft Bike Strategy and Action Plan.

Community Workshop

Thank you to everyone who attended our Bicycle Strategy Workshop at Waverley Library on 2 May 2024.

People from diverse backgrounds, with varied levels of bicycle-riding experience, shared their suggestions and insights about bicycle riding in Waverley with Council officers and consultants. This valuable feedback will be consolidated and used to inform our Draft Bicycle Strategy and Action Plan to be presented to the community later in the year.

The survey below is closed, as the workshop took place on 2 May 2024.

25 May 2022

Thank you all for participating in the Bicycle Strategy Action Plan consultation last year.

We received 198 responses to the survey, 373 pins on the map, seven individual submissions, two written submissions, three entries on the route information map and 12 people attended the workshop.

We appreciate the time you took to engage with us. All responses and suggestions have been taken into consideration for further stages of this project.

Key findings:

• 86% of responses were from Waverley residents
• 85% were frequent or regular bike riders
• 69% felt unsafe riding around Waverley
• 16% felt safe riding in Waverley
• 95% are comfortable riding on separated bike paths
• 72% are comfortable riding on shared paths
• 53% are comfortable riding on painted bike lanes
• 19% felt comfortable riding with mixed traffic in a 50kp/h zone
• 30% felt comfortable riding with mixed traffic in a 40kp/h zone
• 54% felt comfortable riding with mixed traffic in a 30kp/h zone

A report on the engagement was submitted to Council’s Strategic Planning and Development Committee in May where the recommendation was approved to conduct community workshops in the next stage of engagement for this project. The objective of these workshops is to further investigate a range of potential separated bicycle routes that will inform the development of the Bicycle Strategy and Action Plan.

To register for the upcoming workshops or if you have any questions contact us at transport@waverley.nsw.gov.au

PD/5.4/22.05 Bicycle Ridership Survey Engagement (A11/0612) MOTION / UNANIMOUS DECISION Mover: Cr Murray Seconder: Cr Fabiano

That Council:

1. Notes the community responses received from the Bicycle Ridership Engagement Survey and Minutes of Strategic Planning and Development Committee Meeting 3 May 2022 This is page 7 of the Minutes of the Strategic Planning and Development Committee Meeting held on 3 May 2022 particularly the strong community concern about the safety of riding a bicycle in Waverley and the absence of safe bicycle lanes.
2. Conducts community workshops to discuss and investigate potential separated bicycle routes that will inform the development of a revised Waverley Bike Plan.

Crs Betts and Goltsman were not present for the vote on this item.

To develop a comprehensive Bicycle Strategy and Action Plan, it is useful for us to know where people are riding and where they would like to ride. You can share your actual rides or map the routes you would like to use by following the instructions below. This can inform any potential future bicycle routes and any associated infrastructure required.

Option 1 – Using Strava

Are you an existing user of Strava? Record your ride using the Strava App. You can then add 'Waverley Council' to your Friends list to share via the app, or email it to us at transport@waverley.nsw.gov.au.

Option 2 – Using Ride with GPS

Ride with GPS is a website and smartphone app that allows users to record bicycle routes. The website and app allow a free account to be set up but only the website will allow you to record a route that can be shared.

To begin using Ride with GPS, first set up a free account. When you have an account you will be able to:

• Draw a route on a computer via the Ride with GPS website www.ridewithgps.com using the ‘Route Planner’ tab

• Click to start and continue clicking to complete your route, double click to end

• Edit the route (or add/draw line segments if not able to be selected) or by dragging the ‘control points’ (these are the dots you clicked when drawing the route)

To share the route with us you can do the following:

• Add 'Waverley Council' as a Friend and share your route via the website or app
• If you don't have a subscription, please save the route and email it to us at transport@waverley.nsw.gov.au
• If there is a specific detail about your route you would like to record, please email it to us at transport@waverley.nsw.gov.au. Please include the name of your route.

Option 3

Use another freely available mapping software that can be exported in a ‘GPX’ format and share it with us via email at transport@waverley.nsw.gov.au.