{"id":346520,"date":"2025-12-14T01:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T01:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/346520\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T01:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T01:43:10","slug":"safer-cycling-for-surf-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/346520\/","title":{"rendered":"Safer cycling for Surf Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/bikegen_285922_01.jpg\" data-caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/bikegen_285922_01.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"bikegen_285922_01\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cyclists across Surf Coast Shire can participate in a free council trial to help make the region\u2019s roads more bike-friendly.  <\/p>\n<p>Two hundred local riders will be selected to participate in a 12-month trial to help Surf Coast Shire Council better understand cyclists\u2019 experiences across roads and paths.   <\/p>\n<p>Councillor Phoebe Crockett said each participant in the trial will receive a free smart bike light that will collect data during each cyclist\u2019s ride.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are looking for all types of cyclists, families and kids riding to school, newbies, commuter cyclists, fair-weather cyclists and training cyclists,\u201d she said.   <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s time for everyone to get involved, and we can now offer these lights to more cyclists and collect data shire-wide\u2026and the lights are easy to attach onto any bike and collect data while you ride.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe participated in a previous project, with 50 cyclists and focused on Torquay roads\u2026and this data has played a key role in helping to shape the design and scope for the current Fischer Street projects.\u201d   <\/p>\n<p>Data collected from the trial will help council to improve cyclist safety, guide future road upgrades and strengthen funding applications for better cycling infrastructure.   <\/p>\n<p>The data will also remain non-identifiable and is collected to show overall cycling patterns, with participating cyclists able to set privacy zones around areas like their homes.   <\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/surfcoast.vic.gov.au\/SmartBikeLightTrial\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">surfcoast.vic.gov.au\/SmartBikeLightTrial<\/a> to apply to participate in the trial by 9 January 2026. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cyclists across Surf Coast Shire can participate in a free council trial to help make the region\u2019s roads&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-346520","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}