Wellington Street, Collingwood

Wellington Street in Collingwood is a north-south access street that is designated as a Strategic Cycling Corridor, and hosts protected bike lanes on its southern section, between Victoria Parade and Johnston Street. It’s not a declared arterial or a Preferred Traffic Route.

Location of Wellington Street, Collingwood. Image credit: Apple Maps, highlight from Streets Alive Yarra.

Extending the Strategic Cycling Corridor

In 2025 and 2026 Council considered options for how to make biking safer on the northern section of Wellington Street, between Johnston Street and Queens Parade, where the bike lane is merely painted in the dooring zone of parked cars.

Wellington Street near Kent Street. Image credit: Apple Maps.

Council proposed a ‘bicycle street’ with modal filters to reduce through-traffic so that people biking could safely share a lane with people driving.

Wellington Street Stage 3 Bicycle Street. Image credit: Your Say Yarra.

A local group ran a community campaign to support the proposal, called ‘Say yes to a nicer Wellington Street‘:

Image credit: Nicer Wellington Street.

On 12 May 2026 Council cancelled the improvement, although they did ask Officers to investigate expanding the 30 km/h zone (at present in Fitzroy and Collingwood) north into Clifton Hill. You can stay in touch with the local campaign via their website and email newsletter.

Wellington Street improvement cancelled. Image credit: Streets Alive Yarra.

Looking forward

The Council elected in late 2024 has consistently voted against infrastructure for biking. The only realistic way to fix that is to vote them out in 2028.