The North Brisbane Cycleway (previously known as the Northern Veloway) is a proposed cycleway connecting from the Victoria Park bikeway (near the Brisbane CBD) north to Aspley.

Background

The northern and north-eastern suburbs of Brisbane do not have any safe way to get to the CBD by bicycle. This has been a long-standing problem, but in recent years the situation has got even worse, with the construction of the new tunnels around Bowen Hills obliterating bike paths and bridges in the area, taking away road space, and making cycling much more dangerous.

The need for a safe cycle route to the northern suburbs has been identified numerous times in government planning documents (such as the Western Brisbane Transport Network Investigation and, more recently, the Queensland Cycle Strategy), and some planning has been done, but progress has been slow, and the government has held back on making firm commitments to build the cycleway, while pushing ahead with road projects that continue to make it even more difficult to cycle.

The CBD BUG has been campaigning for the cycleway to be built as a matter of urgency. We have written to and met with numerous councillors, state MPs, and staff from both Council and the Department of Transport and Main Roads, and pursued the release of information under Right to Information legislation. We are hopeful of a obtaining a firm commitment to build the cycleway in the near future.

News

Follow developments on our blog under the Northern Veloway tag, as well as general northern suburbs issues under the northside tag.

Media releases

11 March 2012: North Brisbane Cycleway to deliver benefits for Brisbane’s north
15 March 2011: Cyclists call for Cycling Super Highway on Brisbane’s north side

Correspondence

From ULDA: North Brisbane Cycleway response (15 February 2012)
To ULDA: North Brisbane Cycleway alignment (24 January 2012)
From TMR: Northern Veloway RTI decision letter (13 January 2012)
From TMR: Northern Veloway RTI consultation notice (3 January 2012)
From TMR: Intention to refuse Northern Veloway RTI application (23 November 2011)
From TMR: Northern Veloway RTI acknowledgement (10 November 2011)
To Neil Roberts MP: Northern Veloway meeting (8 September 2011)
To Stirling Hinchliffe MP: Northern Veloway meeting (8 September 2011)
From Cr Simmonds: Northern Veloway response (15 July 2011)
To Tim Nicholls MP: Northern Veloway meeting (1 July 2011)
To Cr Kim Flesser: Northern Veloway meeting (1 July 2011)
To Grace Grace MP: Northern Veloway meeting (1 July 2011)
To Cr David McLachlan: Northern Veloway meeting (1 July 2011)
To Cr David Hinchliffe: Northern Veloway meeting (1 July 2011)
From Cr Simmonds: Northern Veloway acknowledgement (10 June 2011)
To Cr Simmonds: Northern Veloway meeting (3 June 2011)

RTI documents

Documents obtained under the Right to Information Act (January, 2012):

• Decision letter (13 January 2012)
• File 1: Northern Cycleway Planning Route Study (6 March 2007) (87 pages, 11.4 MB)
• File 2: Northern Busway project documents: (406 pages, 25.4 MB)
  • Abiroup application to BCC to carry out works on protected vegetation (28 April 2009) p.1
  • Northern Veloway Environmental Scoping Study: RNA (11 March 2009) p.5
  • Northern Veloway Environmental Scoping Study: Flynn Oval (11 March 2009) p.36
  • Abigroup application to EPA for land clearing (28 April 2009) p.71
  • Supporting Documentation Application for clearing protected vegetation — Northern Veloway (31 July 2009) p.78
  • Brisbane City Council Natural Assets Local Law: Application to Carry Out Works on Protected Vegetation (31 July 2009) p.91
  • Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Assessment (18 March 2009) p.110
  • BCC NALL permit (13 May 2009) p.119
  • Northern Veloway — Acid Sulphate Soil Assessment (31 July 2009) p.122
  • Northern Veloway — Contaminated Land Assessment (31 July 2009) p.231
  • Property Vegetation Management Plan: Application for Clearing Native Vegetation on Unallocated State Land (31 July 2009) p.391
• File 3: (65 pages, 17.7 MB)
  • Northern Veloway technical drawings and plans (28 May 2009) p.1 (index p.18)
  • Geotechnical logs (16 April 2009) p.50
• File 4: North Brisbane Cycleway Concept Design Study and Staged Implementation Plan Technical Report (29 October 2010) (559 pages, 201 MB)
• File 5: North Brisbane Cycleway Concept Planning (23 July 2010) (33 pages, all but cover redacted, 90 kB)
• File 6: Northern Cycleway – Preliminary Design Bowen Bridge Rd to Campbell St technical drawings and plans (36 pages, 8.2 MB)
• File 7: Bicycle and Pedestrian Capacity Model: North Brisbane Cycleway Investigation (5 February 2010) (85 pages, 5.4 MB)
• File 8: Benefits of inclusion of active transport in infrastructure projects (16 May 2011) (92 pages)
• File 9: (77 pages, all redacted, 20 kB)
• File 10: Cabinet Decision Number: 3370 (cover sheet only, 20kB)
• File 11: (1 page, redacted, 20 kB)
• File 12: (1 page, redacted, 20 kB)
• File 13: Submission to the Queensland Heritage Council p.28 (6 October 2010) (35 pages, 8.1 MB):
  • Technical drawing of path from Bowen Bridge Rd to O’Connell Tce (12 March 2010) p.1
  • Bowen Park Heritage Impact Report For The Proposed Bikeway (12 March 2010) p.2

Other documents

• Western Brisbane Transport Network Strategy
  • Project 5: Kedron to central business district
    Northern Veloway – Section 1
  • Project 4: Kedron to Aspley
    Northern Busway – staged upgrade + Northern Veloway Section 2
• Lutwyche Road Corridor Neighbourhood Plan (see Map D: Movement Network, p88ap)