World Bicycle Day and Balmain Bike Bus

Join us for UN world bicycle day.
Join the Balmain Bike Bus and others for a special World Bicycle Day ride featuring a trip
through the White Bay Power Station precinct — a route normally unavailable to the general public.
Three joining points:
Option 1
7.30 am – Depart Pioneers Memorial Park, Leichhardt,
to ride to Loyalty Square, Balmain, to join the Balmain Bike Bus.
Option 2
8.10 am – Depart Loyalty Square (outside Woolworths), Balmain with the Balmain Bike Bus and ride to White Bay Power Station.
Option 3
8.20 am – Meet at the Robert Street gate, White Bay Power Station. The ride will continue via Rozelle Parklands, the Anzac Bridge, Pyrmont and Darling Harbour
before finishing at Parliament House at approximately 9.00 am.
We expect Peter McLean (Bicycle NSW) and Kobi Shetty MP (co-chair
of the Parliamentary Friends of Active Transport) will join us for a short welcome and photographs - probably on the Hospital Road (Domain) side of Parliament House. Coffee nearby with anyone who can stay around 9.30-10-ish.

About the Southern Link through the White Bay Power Station site. The route was designed both to provide a shared path through the site
and to serve as an emergency exit from the White Bay Power Station precinct. It is currently used by the Balmain Bike Bus when activities at the Power Station permit. There is a longer-term aspiration for the route to become part of a continuous off-road cycling connection between Balmain and the city, including a future cycle route along Robert Street.

What is the Balmain Bike Bus?
Meeting Wednesdays at Loyalty Square, at the bike racks outside Woollies Balmain at 8am. They leave at 8.10am, cycling single file down quiet back streets of Balmain, ending up along Robert St in Rozelle, then stop at the White Bay Power Station to pick up more participants. They leave White Bay power station at 8.20am, making their way across
the Anzac Bridge to Pyrmont. After this they are flexible depending on the desires of participants that week - sometimes to help them get to their destination/s, or sometimes stop for a coffee before heading off to work or to make the return journey to Balmain.
• For more information about the Balmain Bike Bus, contact Rebecca Fernandez, by email on
[rebeccafernandez@outlook.com](mailto:rebeccafernandez@outlook.com)