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PortBUG recently met with the Port Dock rail station Project Team to discuss key issues for cycling and Active Transport. Ours was their first discussion with the community – more general consultation will occur in the next few weeks. Here’s … Continue reading →

1. New Port Adelaide Bicycle Forum: After considerable late-night angst (your editor is not part of the ‘social media’ generation), we have an on-line forum for sharing ideas to make the Port Adelaide/Enfield Council Area a better place for bikes and … Continue reading →

Just testing the publishing link from the PortBUG website and blog to our new facebook group – The Port Adelaide Bicycle Forum. Please consider joining up. Sam Powrie, Secretary, PortBUG.

1. PortBUG at the TDU: At the start of the TDU in Port Adelaide on Tuesday 16th, PortBUG was fortunate to share a stall with our colleagues from WestsideBUG. We had 2 cargo bikes set up with display boards as well … Continue reading →

Readers will already be aware that Port Community Arts and the Black Diamond Art Gallery are hosting a ColourWheel cycling-themed exhibition of artwork (including photography) to celebrate the start of the Tour Down Under 2018  in Port Adelaide. The final date … Continue reading →

  Hi Folks,  I promise – this is our last BUG-BLOG for 2017! We’re anticipating that once the Christmas and New Year break is over we’ll see public comment ramp up as our political betters prepare for the 2018 March election. … Continue reading →

1. More Flags: In our last blog post we showed you 1 or 2 flag designs that PortBUG members came up with for the opening of the TDU in the Port on 16th January. In the compilation above you can … Continue reading →

Hi Folks, Best Wishes from the PortBUG for Christmas and the New Year! There’s lots happening as we approach the end of 2017 and pedal on into 2018 & progress that all Supporters of Cycling can be proud of! Here … Continue reading →

Every Sunday for the next 10 weeks, Radio Adelaide’s Barometer program is broadcasting ‘Step Away from the Car’, a series of interview-based features focusing on Active Transport. The interviews were recorded by RA’s Nicky Page in July this year at … Continue reading →

School Holiday Opportunity! ‘Be Safe, Be Seen’ Cycling Safety Workshop: PortBUG and the Port Adelaide/Enfield Council will be hosting another of BicycleSA’s very successful ‘Be Safe, Be Seen’ cycling safety presentations in January, 2018. WHEN:  11th January, 2018, 10.30-11.30am. WHERE: … Continue reading →

The Salisbury Council is immediately to the North of Port Adelaide/Enfield’s and a number of the Port’s existing and proposed  Bike Network routes link to those in Salisbury! For a number of years the Salisbury Council has supported Cycle Salisbury, … Continue reading →

Port Adelaide artists, Kalyna Micenko and Bob Daly have received a grant to produce large appliqued flags to celebrate the start of the 2018 Tour Down Under in Port Adelaide. They are now scheduling community workshops to design these flags … Continue reading →

1. Bike Plan Update: Readers will be pleased to know that in what is left of the 2017-18 f/year Council intends completing a number of new off-road shared pathways along Causeway Road between Bower and Semaphore Roads, as well as … Continue reading →

Riding Beyond Port Adelaide? Yes – the Outer Harbor Greenway does go beyond the Port’s Waterfront! In fact it makes it’s way across the Birkenhead Bridge and around the Inner Harbor via the Loop Path, and then finds it’s way up … Continue reading →

O.H Greenway to Open By Christmas!  PortBUG recently met with representatives of DPTI & the Torrens2Torrens & Torrens Junction Projects. Great news: the OH Greenway – The Port to the Adelaide CBD – will be open by Christmas! The T2T … Continue reading →

1. Power assisted bicycles: New regulations (from December 2016) now makes use of internal combustion engines fitted to bicycles illegal on South Australian roads or road-related areas (such as bikepaths and bikeways and shared-use pathways). 2. Outer Harbour Greenway Review:  … Continue reading →

1. Innovation on the Coastal Way: The PortBUG’s eagle-eyed camera patrol recently encountered these new signs on the Coast Park Bikeway at Semaphore Park (Charles Sturt Council area). The BUG has previously suggested to the Port Council that similar behavioural guidance … Continue reading →

  1. Outer Harbour Greenway Completion:  Yes, that’s right – not just an ‘update’, we’re now talking about completion of this 13km on-and-off-road, low stress bikeway between Port Adelaide and the Adelaide City CBD! The PortBUG first surveyed the O/H Greenway … Continue reading →

The PortBUG is advised that – as part of the new DPTI Torrens Rail Junction Project – the pedestrian crossing at the Park Terrace level crossing and the section of the Outer Harbor Greenway between Gibson Street and Park Terrace will … Continue reading →

Port Adelaide/Enfield Council have installed a new Bicycle Repair Station at Semaphore, located adjacent to the kiosk, playground and Coastal Way Bike Path. Details here. The station offers a variety of high quality tools including a number of wrenches, Allen keys, screw … Continue reading →

Bikeways Brunch THIS SATURDAY: The Best Investment in Coffee & Crepes You’ll Make This Year! BISA has been working to make sure Frome St – and all future Bikeways – are good for all cyclists.  ACC is pulling out the stops for this weekend’s Bikeways … Continue reading →

  1.  BUG Update: The PortBUG has been busy! We recently met with Council staff for an update on the implementation of the PA/E Bike Plan. News is encouraging with a number of projects to be finished in the coming months. More … Continue reading →

Semaphore Sojourn: This easy 15km late afternoon ride along Adelaide’s foreshore will travel on the shared-use path from Semaphore to Outer Harbour and return. It’s suitable for all types of bikes. There will be a coffee & refreshment stop afterwards. When: … Continue reading →

Sustainable Regeneration in Practice: Places for People. Two public presentations by the Australian Institute of Architects with the Port Adelaide National Trust & PA/E Council. #1.  Sustainable Regeneration in Practice: Lessons Learnt:  Professor Helen Lochhead from NSW will share the lessons learnt in design from cities … Continue reading →

On 9th September the Hon Ian Hunter, Minister for Sustainability, Environment and Conservation released the Tennyson Dunes Conservation Reserve Coast Park Indicative Alignment. A copy of the consultation report can be found here with the full consultation summary here. The PortBUG … Continue reading →

Please Come… or Donate!  On Friday 28th of October the Bicycle Institute (‘BISA’) will hold its annual ‘Wheels of Fortune’ Quiz Night. BISA have kindly agreed to make the evenings Silent Auction a fundraiser for the PortBUG!  So you can support BISAs bicycle advocacy work … Continue reading →

Spring is here! And ‘yes’, regrettably it’s been 3 months since our last post back in May. Your BUG has been super busy with bike matters & now we have time to breath! Spring is here too which means sunny bike … Continue reading →

BI(SA)  AGM Reminder:  The Bicycle Institute is SA’s peak community-based bicycle & active transport advocacy organisation. They are holding their AGM next week – in the evening on Tuesday 31st. Special guest will be Stephen Mullighan, Minister for Transport and Infrastructure. … Continue reading →

The painting of the handrails on the Birkenhead Bridge is scheduled to move from the Western (shared-path side) to the Eastern side on the 16th May (subject to weather delays). For vehicles this will involve some traffic restrictions, including speed restrictions … Continue reading →