Our campaigns

SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT

Climate Change Balmain Rozelle communicates and coordinates with other environmental campaigning organisations to select areas where we can engage our own supporters in effective actions. 

CCBR's Sustainable Transport working group 

We started out in 2022 with the aim of promoting electric vehicle uptake in Australia in general and in the Inner West in particular.  We later broadened our remit to sustainable transport in general, both electric and muscle-powered.

The group currently  campaigns in two areas: 


Our group welcomes anyone else to join (if they are a CCBR member) should they have any passion for advocating for sustainable transport in the inner west and Sydney more broadly. Enquiries can be directed through CCBR (ccbalroz@gmail.com) or Tim Hand [tim.hand28@gmail.com].

Why does this campaign matter?

Transport is Australia's third largest source of greenhouse gas emissions. Sydney’s Inner West Council aims to make Council’s own operations carbon neutral  by 2025, and for community emissions to reach zero by 2050.  While many residents in this Local Government Area would like to see more EVs (including bikes and scooters), we have identified some unique barriers to their uptake. CCBR is working to provide awareness-raising and support for addressing these barriers and facilitating both resident and commercial EV use. 

Some perceived barriers 

Some questions are answered in our downloadable fact sheet:

read our EV FAQ sheet     or  download PDF

   * Inner West Council support strategy
  **Federal govt support (tax break)

What you can do

We need your input!

We'd love you to share your war stories or EV experiences (even if you suffer from EV envy). Or your ideas, or questions. At any time, if you have something to say about clean transport, please feel free to contact us by email at ccbalroz@gmail.com. 

Join our Facebook Group: Sustainable Transport for the Inner West for regular updates and discussion.  

Electric Vehicles in the Inner West

We are campaigning for promoting uptake of EVs in the Inner West including:

● targeting the IWCs ‘EV Encouragement Strategy’ (both helping formulate and monitor its progress)

● providing EV information via our ‘Sustainable Transport for the Inner West’ facebook page and market stalls

● support the implementation of both private and public kerbside EV charging

● and we are monitoring the current rollout to provide feedback to council

More sustainable modes of transport in the Inner West

We are advocating for public, and active transport throughout the inner west with particular focus on Balmain /Rozelle by

● writing and meeting with both State and local MPs

● making submissions to both Federal and State Governments- New Vehicle Emissions Standards, Transition to EVs, The State Government’s Bus Industry Taskforce Inquiry, and presented to WestConnex NSW Upper House Inquiry.

● advocating to both State and Local government the need for safer speed zones (40-30kph) throughout the inner west. 

● advocating for better cycleways through contributing to surveys, petitions, letters and lobbying state and local members

● identiyfing and recommending improvements and design of cycleways 

● initiating a campaign to evolve and promote plans for active ‘pathways’ from the CBD to Balmain peninsula by liaising with IWC, Bike Leichardt, Inner West Bike Coalition, Ports Authority, Balmain Chamber of Commerce, TfNSW and Placemaking NSW

EV charging across the pavement

How to do it - legally. ***

If you have an EV and you park on the street outside your house, you might need to run a charging cable from your house across the pavement. To do so legally, you need to get a (free) permit from  council. One CCBR member (in Inner West Council) did just that - and here is how he did it. 

***July 2024: Although IWC stopped issuing permits earlier this year, they are once again available,valid up to July 2025.