Mapping A Meliorate Melbourne

Last twelvemonth the Public Transport Not Traffic (PTNT) organisation inwards Melbourne asked the local community to assistance improve Melbourne's world carry network past times mapping how the city's world transit scheme could move made better. You tin persuasion the results of all the suggestions received on the PTNT CrowdSpot Visualisation map. This map visualizes all the mapped improvements suggested to the campaign.

The Melbourne City Council apparently took unopen to respect of this crusade because this twelvemonth they accept released their ain CrowdSpot powered mapping project. Help Us Build a Better Cycling City is a map which local citizens tin purpose to brand suggestions well-nigh how cycling inwards Melbourne tin move improved.


Users tin click on the map to highlight locations where they sense 'issues & challenges when cycling', where cycling is enjoyable or where cycling could move improved. Each proposition which has been made past times users as well as then far is shown on the map alongside a color-coded marker. You tin also browse through the suggestions past times scrolling downwardly inwards the map sidebar.

The suggestions made to the map volition move used past times the City of Melbourne to assistance inform the draft of the city's Bicycle Plan 2016-2020. Hopefully when drafting the excogitation the urban nub volition also brand purpose of the Melbourne Bike Crash Map.


The Melbourne Bike Crash Map plots 5 years of Melbourne cycling accidents on a Leaflet powered map.The map highlights the locations where bike crashes are most prevalent on Melbourne's streets.

You tin filter the results shown on the map past times 'all crashes', 'fatal crashes' as well as 'serious injury crashes'. You tin also filter the results past times fourth dimension of a day. In add-on the map provides a stone oil visualization of the total of cycling traffic on each street based on Strava cycling data.

The intensity of the bluish lines betoken the density of Strava recorded traffic. This should assistance cyclists assess the relevant security of Melbourne's roads. For illustration a large department of Footscray Road seems to instruct heavy cycling traffic only has no recorded bike accidents. H5N1 quick cheque on Google Maps Street View shows that the route has a dedicated off-street bike path.