Merri-bek BUG

This is a friendly reminder that our ride has re-scheduled for this Sunday. I look forward to see you all this Sunday.

Meeting Point and Time:
Meet at Royal Park Train Station at 10:30am (opposite Melbourne Zoo)

Date:
Sunday 21 December 2008

Theme:
Please feel free to dress yourself and your bike with Christmas decorations

Venue:
Lunch at 1:00pm at Belgian Beer Café
557 St Kilda Road, Melbourne
www.belgianbeercafemelbourne.com

Route:
The route is a surprise and you will find out on the day

What to bring:
Mobile, Money, sunscreen, camera

RSVP:
By Friday 19 December 2008 to rides@morelandbug.org

Due to the bleak forecast for today’s weather, the Christmas ride has been postponed. Please keep next Sunday free (weather permitting) for the next ride. Veena will send out an email, with more info, throughout the week.

Phuong and Anna are helping to organise a sustainable transport rally outside the Melbourne Town Hall this coming Tuesday 16th Dec, to welcome the new Lord Mayor to his first Council meeting and let him know that we don’t support his plan to allow cars back into Swanston St. The council meeting starts at 5:30, so the rally will begin at 5pm to make sure Mr Doyle and his fellow councillors get an ear-and-eye-full of us before they head into the meeting.

During the council meeting, some councillors are planning to put forward a motion to have a range of options canvassed for Swanston St – one of which would be reopening it to cars, while others would focus on making it a bike, pedestrian and tram friendly route. It will be important for council to know that there is a loud and proud bike community that wants sustainable transport to be front and centre in the City of Melbourne, which is the purpose of the rally.

The media will be there and Jeremy Rawlins, whose wife Carolyn was killed on Swanston St earlier this year, will address the rally. Tomorrow Anna will send through a flyer (to the BUG list) that you can email round to your networks; in the meantime, just pop the date into your diary and let Anna know if you’d like to help out – we’ll need a few people on the day to act as marshalls, making sure that the rally doesn’t venture onto the tram tracks, as well as some people to hand out flyers along major cycling routes in the lead up to Tuesday.

You are invited to the Moreland BUG Christmas ride.

Venue: Belgian Beer Cafe, 557 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne

Date: Sunday 14 December 2008

Time: 10:30am, meeting at Royal Park (zoo) train station (route yet to be decided)

RSVP: By Wednesday 10 December to Veena

Cost: Pay for your own food & beverages