Kingston's Active Transport Success: Whitewater Creek Track Sees 50% Jump in Usage

New infrastructure connecting communities pays dividends as winter usage soars

BIKE RAVE: Saturday 30th August [UPDATED]

UPDATE: This was scheduled for 23rd August but was pushed back a week due to weather. The equipment planned to be used won't cope with rain! Some legends (not us) are putting together a bike rave! Saturday, August 30, 2025 at 3 PM PRINCES WHARF NO. 1 (Intersection

Commonwealth Government Economic Reform Roundtable

As Australia charts a course through economic uncertainty, Streets People Love Hobart has contributed a community perspective to the Commonwealth Government’s 2025 Economic Reform Roundtable. This initiative, focused on boosting productivity, building resilience, and strengthening the national budget, is a rare opportunity to advocate for smarter, fairer investment in

K&D Site a Generational Opportunity for Central Hobart

Let’s not waste the K&D site! Hobart deserves housing, public space, and a vibrant mid-town, not more car parks.

Movement: how to take back our streets and transform our lives

A book review of Movement by Thalia Verkade and Marco te Brömmelstroet, which challenges car-centric thinking and explores how reclaiming our streets for people can transform health, safety, and community life.

State Election Questionnaire

Only 2 of 30 state election candidates responded to our election questionnaire. Here's what they had to say.

Community-Led Improvements Take Root in South Hobart

South Hobart is looking greener, safer, and more accessible thanks to a series of street-space improvements led by local residents. In collaboration with the City of Hobart, the South Hobart Sustainable Community group has successfully championed three key changes to the area: * Smoothing Out the Bumpy Track (June 2025) * Speed

Nipaluna's Need for Public Transport

Forced car ownership, high emissions, and traffic jams—Hobart’s car-first design isn’t working. Better public transport is the key to a fairer, greener city.

State Government slashes funds to ZERO dollars

The State Government may have abandoned active transport — but we haven’t. The latest state budget shows the Liberals have completely cut funding for bike infrastructure projects beyond next year. While $6.5 million had been allocated for cycling infrastructure in 2025–26, under the next three new financial years,

Event: Ride the Night to Dark Park

Light up the night! Join a glowing community ride through Hobart’s inner-city streets and bike lanes. When: Saturday 14th June - from 5:30pm for a 6pm roll-out Where: 40 Molle St, Hobart TAS 7000, Australia What: An easy ride, skate or scoot through the city with lights, finishing

Tasmania's 20-Year Preventive Health Strategy

SPLH wrote a submission for Tasmania's 20-Year Preventive Health Strategy, but what has preventive health got to do with our built environment?

Notice of First Annual General Meeting

We are pleased to invite all of Streets People Love Hobart’s supporters to the first Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Streets People Love Hobart Inc. This is a milestone moment for our newly incorporated association. The AGM will formalise our structure, elect our inaugural committee, and set the foundation

Hobart’s Free E-Bike Library Has Launched – And It’s Already a Hit 🚲💨

The Hobart E-Bike Library officially launched this May, and within hours some bikes were booked out for the year. That’s right – Hobartians jumped at the chance to borrow one of six e-bikes available in the library’s free two-week loan program. There's still a few bookings available

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Wide Turns, Fast Cars, and Forgotten Pedestrians: A Local Look at Dangerous Design

The ultra-wide intersection radius allows for cars to travel faster through them at the expense of pedestrian safety.

Let's build active transport into our daily lives - for our health and our city!

Dr Anna Johnston is a local haematologist, long-time cycling commuter, and spokesperson for Streets People Love Hobart. In this piece, she explores how the way we design our streets impacts our health, drawing lessons from cities around the world. A recent trip to the US reminded me what is at

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Collins Street Bike Lanes Public Meeting Speech by Anna Johnston

Anna Johnston from Streets People Love Hobart speaks at the Collins Street bike lane meeting, calling for safer, more inclusive streets. She highlights the need for active transport, sustainable city design, and community-led change.

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Research shows active transport including cycle lanes is good for our health and wellbeing and good for business

Fast forward nearly 50 years and a few local businesses are worried that reducing on-street parking in Collins Street to accommodate a bike lane will be detrimental to their business while ignoring all the evidence that suggests otherwise...

Biking from Kingston

Lauren wrote in to our Instagram and shared a story of her journey in to riding a bike for transport. I live in Kingston and only started riding about a year ago when I bit the bullet and bought an e-bike – now it’s my main form of transport for

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Our streets need you!

Your vote is needed at the public meeting attempting to remove bike lanes. Tuesday 25th March. Get your ticket, attend and vote.

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Lift our vision from car parking to become an inclusive, active, heathy and thriving community

Bruce Levett, a Hobart resident and public health advocate, has led Health Consumers Tasmania and serves on the Tasmanian Council of Social Service board. He urges a shift from car parking debates to urban planning that promotes active transport, healthier communities, and thriving local businesses.

4th March Sticker Day

We need a bunch of volunteers to give us 1 - 2 hours of your time before work (7-9am or part of) on Tuesday 4th March to give Hobart's friendly active transport commuters a wave and a sticker! If you haven't already earned yourself a Streets

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Does a two-way bike lane on Collins Street make sense?

Hobart City Council is installing a bike lane along Collins Street - this will consist of one-way bike lanes on each side of Collins Street. But is there any merit to a 'two-way' bike lane on one side only? This post explains why a two-way bike lane would

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Councillor Ryan Posselt's Talking Points on Collins St. Discourse

Hobart City Councillor, Paramedic and Cycling South Chair - Ryan Posselt - provides his thoughts on Collins Street. It’s a new year, and it hasn’t taken long for bike lanes to appear in public discourse, kicking off in the third week of January with conservative politicians questioning their

Switch gears & move into a new cycle of travel options

This article was first published in The Mercury newspaper on Wednesday 22 January 2025 The belief that bike lanes pose a threat to businesses is not held up by the evidence Some people see a parked car and equate that to a business customer but don’t make the same