Lei loves riding with his daughters to school, sharing the joy and freedom of cycling. As Ermington Public School’s P&C President, he’s grown Ride2School participation over the years and is pushing for safer streets to school so more families can enjoy the ride every day.

The 2025–26 Budget is a missed opportunity to invest in safer streets. While roads receive billions, walking and cycling get just $100 million.

National Ride2School Day is one again on Friday 21 March

It’s a day of fun and colour where students, teachers, parents and carers rediscover the joy of riding something with wheels or just old-fashioned walking. 

But beyond the event itself, there’s a much bigger conversation to be had: why aren’t more kids riding and walking to school every day?

It’s an exciting time for better streets in many towns in regional NSW - now, with funding from Transport for NSW’s ‘Get NSW Active’ program to create a new active transport strategy, it looks like Bathurst could get a chance at better streets, too.

Our proposed National Active Transport Infrastructure Program would fund Regional City Networks. To start by 15 regional cities and rapidly growing peri-urban areas to build connected walking and cycling paths, inspired by Wagga Wagga’s highly successful 56 km network.

We meet Catherine Meister, one of the talented volunteers powering our Federal Election advocacy campaign. We are looking for more volunteers to help us in this important campaign! If you are passionate about making a difference and can commit to volunteering your time (ideally 3 hours/week), please submit your interest to Sam Johnson, Vice President of Better Streets Australia, at sjohnson@betterstreets.org.au.