There are few things more reliable in Australian public life than a community Facebook group discovering a bike lane. Not a sinkhole. Not a toxic spill. Not a proposal to replace the town hall with a vape shop and a car wash.

A bike lane.

There are few things more predictable in Australian public life than the instant aneurysm some people suffer whenever bicycle infrastructure is mentioned.

Spend a billion dollars widening roads? Sensible. Mature. Nation-building.

Spend a fraction of that helping people ride safely to work, school, the shops or the train station? Apparently civilisation is over.

It has been part of the Melbourne cycling landscape since the dawn of time. For many of us, riding ‘around the bay in a day’ was a rite of passage….

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