Media
Media enquiries
Please contact Victoria Walks CEO Sarah Pilgrim.
Phone: (03) 9662 3975
Email: infoATvictoriawalks.org.au (replace AT with @)
The Age: 'School zones, city streets set for 30km/h under new speed limit rules', August 29 2025
Selected feature articles
- Herald Sun: Getting twice as many children to walk to school ... January 30 2023
- The Age: Melbourne's roads are getting safer - unless you're a pedestrian, December 29 2022
- A Current Affair: Emergency Department sees e-scooter injuries ..., February 22 2022
- Herald Sun: Dangerous bus stop slocated on high-speed roads, November 21 2021
- 7 News: Push to reduce speed limit to 40km/hr on all local streets, January 21 2021
- Herald Sun: Victorian pedestrians at mercy of drivers as hit-runs soar, July 30th 2020
- The Age: Kristy's life was taking off. Now she's afraid to cross the road alone, July 30th 2020
- Bendigo Advertiser: More than 200 pedestrians hit by cars around Bendigo, July 30th 2020
- Channel 9: Coronial inquest into death of Norman MacKenzie, hit by cyclist, St Kilda, June 26 2019
- Channel 7: Death of 85-year-old puts safety of pedestrian crossings under scrutiny, June 26 2019
- 'Compensation call for shared path crashes: Victim's payout bid', Herald Sun, October 2021
- 'Survey sets meter ticking on shopping strip parking', The Age, December 2019
- 'New data shows many customers still walk to busy retail strips', Herald Sun, December 2019
- Electric scooter 'confusion reigns over state laws', The Guardian (Australia), 17 November 2019
- 'On Your Feet: Nine Great Melbourne Walks', The Sunday Age, 17 November 2019
- 'No room to vroom: Delivery bikes face clutter control', Herald Sun, 26 June 2019
- 'Stop the carnage - plea to save pedestrians and bikers,' Herald Sun, 11 May 2019
- 'The problem of pedestrian deaths on our roads', The Age, 19 August 2018
- ‘It’s not valued’: Why walkability should be taken seriously in our cities,' Domain (The Age), 28 July 2018
- "Walking Dread: Pedestrians pinpoint unsafe sites,' Herald Sun, 20 June 2017
- "Walk on the wild side: Hazardous crossings among pedestrians top gripes,' The Age, 19 June 2017
- 'Make drivers pay - Sky rail parking plan', Herald Sun, 15 December 2016
- "Red Light on the Delay', Herald Sun, 9 September 2016
- 'Red Light State: Plan for longer waits at crossings to help elderly', Herald Sun, 8 September 2016
- 'Drivers to wait longer at red lights under pedestrian safety plan', The Age, 8 September 2016
- 'Walking into Danger: pedestrian falls put 5000 a year in hospital', The Age, 17 March 2016
- 'Should we ban cars from Melbourne's CBD?' The Age, 16 April 2015
- 'Streets have turned into battleground for older pedestrians' The Age, 17 May 2015
- 'Walk this way' The Sunday Age, 22 September 2013
- 'Free-range kids encouraged to spread their wings', The Age, 1 May 2012
- 'Going Walkabout' The Sunday Age, 3 April 2011
Opinion
- 'Why Melbourne's e-scooter trial is not working', The Age 22 Feb 2023
- 'A walkable city is no mean feet,' Herald Sun 22 September 2022
- Walking on Eggshells (Letter to the Editor), The Age, 18 May 2022
- 'Cities for People' ADC Forum 8 March 2016
- 'Taking the right steps to get your children healthy' Leader Newspapers 27 Jan 2015
- 'Let's make it safer for our seniors to walk' 6 Feb 2014 (Letter)
- 'These feet are made for walking' The Age 4 February 2011
- 'Why medium density housing is a health issue' Crikey, 11 April 2010
- 'Try walking and talking' The Age 1 February 2010
Radio interviews
- 'Calls for crackdown on electric scooters in Melbourne', 3AW 7 Februrary 2022
- 'Bold push to slash speed limits on Victoria’s residential streets' 3AW 21 January 2021
- 'Fitness Challenge: walking' comes in at 16.45, ABC RN 'Sporty' 5 July 2020
- 'Motorists could wait longer at intersections in plan to help the elderly', 3AW, 8 September 2016
- 'Could Melbourne's CBD eventually become a car-free zone?' 3aw 16 April 2015
- 'Hot foot it' (walk to school) ABC Gippsland, 19 November 2013
- 'Walking and Walking Maps' ABC Gippsland 5 December 2012
- 'Talking Walking on Rethinking Cities' (UK), December 2010
- 'Favorite Melbourne Walks on 774 ABC Melbourne' ABC 7 August 2010 (copyright of ABC)
- 'Tensions in Abbotsford as council paints parking bays on the footpath' - 3AW 8 March 2016
Selected media releases
- Political parties are silent when it comes to protecting seniors 30 Oct 2018
- Research finds cycling on footpaths is dangerous… for cyclists 3 Aug 2018
- Lack of safe crossings tops list for walkers in Melbourne (WalkSpot results) 20 June 2017
- WalkSpot, 14 March 2017
- Let's Walk Braybrook launch, 1 March 2017
- Older walkers being killed and injured by bad driving, 8 September 2016
- New research – 5,000 Victorians injured by falls in the street, 17 Mar 2016
- Walkers say no to more bikes on footpaths, 3 Jul 2014
- Seniors missing out: new research - 5 December 2013
- It's time to get serious about children walking to school, 14 Nov2013
- Global Road Safety Week 2013, 6 May 2013
- Governments are failing young pedestrians 30 Oct 2012
- Victorian Victorian Road Safety Strategy 3 Oct 2012
- Free range Bendigo walk 30 April 2012
- Speed Limits Letter to the Editor 30 May 2012
- Metropolitan Planning Strategy 25 March 2013