Mayor’s office
- Recent highway upgrade to create a bike alne from uni to CBD
- TMR’s next project is Moore’s Ck to Yamba Road (650k funding coming?)
- Looking at how their civil operations can deliver funding to keep costs in check
- Mt Morgan RT: on the backburner as they ran out of water. Water security is a top priority. Gold mining heritage town so there is scope here
- Have done events sponsorship at First Turkey trails
- Looking to maximise use of the assets and infrastructure they do have
- Cr Taylor: potential for the old rail bridge to end up an AT bridge over the river. 500k in budget for walkways
- Pump track at Gracemere, have sponsored BMX club in the past and had the velodrome resurfaced.
- Selectability – outfit doing bikes for disengaged youth
- Not sure there is a bicycle reference group?
- Fed funding for a Mt Archer 2m footpath to the saddle
- No plans for bike path on the ring road – deemed demand too low
Member meeting
11 people
- Can a dedicated crit circuit be built? Get off roads, useful for skills courses/school groups etc
- Roads are deemed very unsafe – wary of being ‘pushed off’ roads if other insfrastructure is built
- Big desire for Rocky to Yeppoon RT but also Mt Morgan to Rocky
- Desire to build social capital in Rocky – Craig is trying to push RT ahead as waiting for council seems pointless
- Rocky MTB Club has a master plan, putting in front of council. MTB trail head needs toilet and changing area.
- MT club do 200hrs/qtr on trail maintenance, but the hill has huge scope to be nationally significant. Currently 40km of trails, but there’s 600m+ of vert there to use. Council say it is a local park (but Rocky Tourism invested in national media visiting?)
- Anthea wants to see a boost in destination marketing.
- Uncertainty on seeing the Principle Cycling Network and therefore applying (easy BQ awareness post/article)
- E-scooter issues – many crashes and parked on pathways
- Goal posts from TMR for road race approvals always moved, very last minute