A legible cycling network for Ballarat

Satellite image of City of Ballarat's proposed cycling network (source)

In 2017, after extensive consultation, the City of Ballarat released its Cycling Action Plan. I did quite a bit of work on it during the feedback period, and have tinkered with it in the years since, but never posted about it publicly. My time in Amsterdam is making me think more about Ballarat's cycling infrastructure, so I figured now's as good a time as any.

The revamped PTV network map

In 2017 PTV launched their new network map, which contained all their heavy rail services on the one map for the first time. The previous map hadn't shown V/Line services - it only showed Metro services, and it prioritised showing which ticketing Zone each station was in. Since Zone 2 has (sort of) been eliminated now, this was less important to show - so instead they've colour-coded it to show the different groupings of lines. This same colour-coding is now being applied to information screens at stations, and so on - which is definitely a good thing.