UNSW Bike Club

Thanks to everyone who send in their route to UNSW – if you haven’t already, make sure you post it in the forums. We’ll be getting together to map all these routes, decide which ones make the cut, and lay it all out ready for design and printing.

Time: 3pm
Day: Tues 28/07
Location: Quadrangle lvl 1, room 1001

As part of our efforts to get better facilities for bike-riders at UNSW, we need some cold, hard data on people’s riding habits. That’s why we’re asking you to fill out a 3-minute survey.

Click here to do the survey.

This information will be used to inform a proposal we’re writing about shower and locker facilities for cyclists, which may lead to significant new investment by UNSW.

By filling it out, you can go in the running to win a multi-tool! Entries close Sunday 7th June.

I recently approached UNSW Facilities about their plans for more cycling infrastructure, and they suggested that we could come up with a list of priorities and then try to get it funded through the Miscellaneous Students’ Activities Fund (MSAF), which is a lump of money that was, before Voluntary Student Unionism, financed student payments.

There’s also an electric plug-in scooter project that wants to get funds through the MSAF to install plug-in points at UNSW, and they want to piggy-back on our MSAF funding application.

What do you reckon? There are a few questions I’d like to get feedback on, which I’ll collate and send out to you all before giving it to the uni.

Please email your answers to :

1. What are the bits of bike infrastructure UNSW needs, from most to least urgent? (e.g. “1. Lockers and showers at upper campus, 2. Rack outside the Law building, 3. Rain shelters for existing bike racks”). Your list can be as long or short as you like!

2. Should the Bike Club apply for these things to be funded through the MSAF?

3. Should we help the electric plug-in scooter project get funded, or should we stick to bicycles?

Update: here’s a list of priorities so far:

1. Bike workshop space
Construction of an enclosed shelter adjacent to the Roundhouse and International House.

2. Bike racks
On the South side of the Law building, and outside the Computer Science Engineering building.
Cost: Assuming UNSW has some racks spare, nil.

3. End of trip facilities
Showers, lockers and change-rooms, with co-located sheltered bicycle racks.
3.1 Energy Technologies Building
3.2 Somewhere in the vicinity of CLB/Morvern Brown/Library

4. Public pumps
Bicycle pumps scattered around campus, locked to bike racks, that would be available to bicycle users. Flat tyres are often cited by riders as preventing them from riding their bike more regularly.
Cost: $300

5. Map of routes to UNSW / Prince of Wales Hospital
The map would be similar to the University of Sydney / Royal Prince Alfred Hospital map. Part funding should be sought through the Area Health Service.
Cost: $10,000 – $12,000

6. On-campus route signage
Once identified through the above project, safer routes through the university itself should be marked, and signage should be erected to advise riders of end of trip facilities and racks.

Thanks to everyone who came along, and special thanks to all the workplace co-ordinators!

We had about 30 cyclists who fuelled up on tea and coffee, fruit salad, muesli and an amazing array of muffins and cakes.

More photos can be viewed on Facebook.