Active Travel and Healthy Spaces

Active travel means moving around using your body; walking, cycling, scootering, or even using a mobility scooter, rather than relying on cars or public transport. Choosing active travel not only benefits your physical health by keeping you moving, but it also improves mental wellbeing, reduces traffic congestion, and helps the environment.

Active Travel: What Kwinana Offers

The City of Kwinana offers free programs to help children and adults learn to ride a bike or build their bike skills plus fun events to encourage walking, riding or wheeling.

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eRideables in Kwinana

In recent times eRideables, including eBikes and eScooters, have come to prominence as a quick and inexpensive way to get around and commute. eRideables are permitted on public roads and pathways. With that in mind it is important to be safe on our roads:

• Be visible. Use lights and reflectors when riding at night.
• Give way to pedestrians and keep left unless overtaking.
• Use a bell or verbal warning before approaching or overtaking pedestrians or other path users. A bell or other warning device must be fitted to the eRideable, but if fitting a bell onto the device isn't possible - say if your device is an eSkateboard - then call out to pedestrians and other path users to let them know you are there.
• Use hand signals to indicate your plans to other road users when turning.
• Ride single file when riding with a group.
• Give cars plenty of space. If you’re riding on a local road, make sure there’s at least 2 metres between you and the back of any motor vehicle. Never attach yourself to, or allow yourself to be pulled along by, any other vehicle.
• Ride to the conditions. Slow down when passing pedestrians, before turning corners, or where there is congestion.