Our group continues to meet and strive towards better and more footpaths for the Bellarine. Our team includes people of a wide range of ages and experiences. All have different reasons for wanting footpaths but the common thread is for better access to places via walking and for better health outcomes. From VictoriaWalks website they […]
Our ever growing group of people, interested in advocating for footpaths for the Bellarine, continues to grow, as does our knowledge about how important footpaths are for health, safety, exercise and active travel. At our last meeting, we highlighted, what we think are, the top priority streets and roads that help to connect people to
Maximilian volunteered to help deliver SpringDale Messengers a few months ago. He attends a local school and I asked for his comments about a couple of the issues that SpringDale is advocating to improve. It’s quite challenging to walk anywhere comfortably especially on the bellarine peninsula due to the lack of footpaths on busy roads.
Our small dedicated group recently met with Aaron McGlade from City of Greater Geelong (CoGG) to discuss Principle Pedestrian Networks and particular footpath issues facing our communities. We look forward to continuing to meet monthly and to progressing this issue. Meetings held last Monday each month at SpringDale 7pm. Please let me know if you
Our group has met 3 times and every meeting so far we have welcomed new members and focused our intentions and learnt a little more. We are seeking assistance from City of Greater Geelong and hope to be able to report next month about our next steps. Footpaths are so important to connect neighbourhoods, enable
A small but growing group of people are pulling together some back ground, legal and visionary information about footpaths in general, and footpaths on the North Bellarine more specifically. We are looking at: the health benefits of walking safely on paths, the history of the requests for footpaths over the years, the safety aspects of