If the fast moving vehicles don't get you, these brainless talking points will. Last Thursday, the NSW Parliament debated the Safer Speeds Bill (actually the Road Legislation Amendment (Speed Limits) Bill 2025). This was a chance to hear from some of the least-qualified but most-elected people in the state on why they opposed this reform. Here's what they had to say.

St Ives is a suburb on the Upper North Shore of Sydney. Sofia (author) is a medical doctor that has a Master of Health Leadership and Management (MHLM), Master of Infectious Disease Intelligence (MIDI) from UNSW, Sydney and has completed Master of Public Health (MPH) from the University of Newcastle. Using the Neighbourhood Walkability Checklist developed by the Australia Heart Foundation…

Content warning for road violence and credulous reporting. Yesterday, a person died near Central after being hit by a garbage truck. They were on a speed-limited e-bike at the time, which prompted an awful lot of media outlets to play the hits and blame kids on e-motorbikes for, as a reminder, this approx 13 tonne garbage truck being driven into this person.

Real problems require real solutions. Note: this post discusses specific instances of road violence. In August, treasured national institution the ABC wrote a terrible article about the alarming rise in pedestrian deaths. The piece falsely attributed this trend to an increase in e-bike and e-scooter crashes, before the ABC edited the article and issued a welcome correction, which nonetheless failed to name the actual threat: cars.

In April 2025, WalkSydney worked with Jake Coppinger, and Sara Stace of Better Streets to request SCATS Traffic signal phasing data. This was an action following on ongoing discussions with the community in Sydney on the abysmal time allocated for people crossing on foot at traffic lights. Why traffic signal phases (timing) are important It is clear to us all that…

How do we win greater public support for lower speeds on our streets ? Victoria Walks is sharing some evidence based tips for communicating with decision makers and the Community  VicWalks Safer Speeds on local Streets : Communication Guide provides tactical tips to assist councils successfully implement safer speeds projects. The guide is based on interviews with local councils, reviews of council materials, focus groups, a public survey of over 2,200 people and a user testing workshop.

This week Inner West Council and Transport for NSW reduced the speed limit of local roads in large parts of Enmore, Marrickville, Sydenham and Tempe from 50km/h to 40km/h. Some State roads within the same area, including Enmore Road and Victoria Road, have been reduced from 60 km/h to 50km/h. Inner West plans to extend local reductions to 40km/h across the rest of its council area within the next few years.

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WalkSydney hosted a Sunday afternoon walk along the Cooks river between the Beamish Street pedestrian bridge and the Sugar Mill pedestrian bridge in Hulstone Park.  The area around Campsie, Sydney, NSW, was traditionally Wangal land, a clan of the Darug (or Dharug, Dharuk, Daruk) tribe or language group, who used the Cooks River for sustenance and had a deep connection to the land and its resources. 

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On 13 March 2025, Committee for Sydney collaborated with WalkSydney to produce a report: Putting our best foot forward: a checklist for walkable density. This is because walkability starts with how we build our precincts - the structure of places influences 54% of all walking. Since we can design our neighbourhoods to make it more likely for people to walk, but often the challenge and complexity can be overwhelming, the checklist reduces a vast body of research into what makes good walkable places into a simple 10 minute question-and-answer form, that includes providing diverse, higher-density housing like apartments and townhouses, along with good access to jobs, childcare and schools, parks, shops and public transport.

Did you know that between 1/8th of trips in Western Sydney, and 1/4 of trips in Eastern Sydney are walked? (NSW Household Travel Survey, Six Cities, 2022/3). Yet the Federal government spends only …

Evidence to support the practical guidance for more walkable neighbourhoods in areas of low socioeconomic advantage.

Since become a parent I’ve been doing a lot of walking with a pram. It’s really opened my eyes to the fact that much of our cities and places haven’t been designed with families in mind, let alone …

In a city that seldom celebrates its everyday architecture, new stations by UK architects Fosters, Grimshaw and McAslans, along with Australian practice Woods Bagot, have provoked public joy at their ...

Almost 1300 have died on Australian roads in the past year, with biggest increases coming from ACT and NT.

The movement is taking place in effectively every state and territory in the country.

Living Streets launches its updated Pedestrian Pound report, showing the correlation between walkable places and thriving business.