Light the Night Ride II
15 March 2025
Ride, shine, and support safer cycling! Join us for the Light the Night family ride and sausage sizzle as we push for better bike connections in North Brisbane. Decorate your bike with lights, enjoy a community ride, and add your name to the petition for safer cycling. The ride is a slow roll along the two competing routes for the Stage 5 bikeway in Wooloowin.
When
Saturday, 15 March 2025 from 5:15pm to 8:15pm. Arrive early to decorate your bike and set up your lights – either bring your own fairy lights or borrow some from the BUG on the day.
Where
Kalinga Park play and barbecue area, 4012 Lewis Street, Clayfield.
Route
The route will be a gentle [DISTANCE] km round-trip to and from Kalinga Park, and will take about [TIME]. The route will go along the proposed Kent Road bikeway and recently cancelled All the Way to EJ link.
Click here for a map of the route [Link to map]
Click here to download a GPS file of the route. [Link to gpx file]
Tickets
$5/adult and free for children. The tickets to cover the cost of a sausage sizzle and soft drink. Sold through Eventbrite.
About the campaign
Safe streets for cycling don’t happen unless you ask … a lot. And that’s what we’re doing.
We’ve been asking for the completion of the North Brisbane Bikeway (NBB) to safely connect to the Kedron Brook Bikeway (KBB).
Despite community support during multiple rounds of consultation, the Brisbane City Council has announced that work is to be discontinued on finishing a dedicated and protected NBB at Price Street – the All the Way to EJ link. Instead, cyclists continuing to KBB will be directed onto the roads along a route from Price Street to Brook Rd via Kent Rd (in yellow on map).
However, many cyclists wish to continue along Dickson St to access the Eagle Junction Train Station, workplaces at Brisbane Airport, the Gateway North Bikeway, and the Moreton Bay Cycleway (in red on map).
This route it is currently unsafe for cycling. Cyclists have to navigate between parked cars and moving motor traffic.
So, the North Brisbane BUG has a very modest proposal for the council: to at least make this short stretch of Dickson Street safer for cycling with kerbside space and a more reasonable speed limit.
Sign the petition
If you wish to see safer cycle paths at the north end of Dickson Street, please sign and share this petition