Meet Ex-professional Ballarat cyclist Pat Shaw. Video by Lachlan Bence and Adam Spencer.
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00:00 I love the closeness of the community.
00:13 Also have this connection through the charitable work that we've been able to do as a business.
00:17 So it's good to see those things come into fruition in the community and make a difference.
00:24 But also knowing that the community is big enough to have all of the resources that we
00:27 require.
00:30 Obviously the lack of traffic is a great thing as well.
00:33 It's great for the cycling, I love it for the bike riding I've been able to do, but
00:37 most of all my decisions have been made around my family.
00:40 So it's a nice safe community that I can trust the people in it.
00:44 Good schools and access to brilliant facilities like the basketball centres, the football
00:53 clubs and the like that have helped my kids have such a great time.
00:59 Everyone might laugh at this but I'd love to see Ballarat be more accessible by foot
01:04 and bike.
01:05 I think the quicker that we do that and if we do it early we will reap the benefits as
01:10 a community not only environmentally but also I think we'll see a far greater representation
01:15 of people in town of an evening.
01:18 So I'd love to see that infrastructure continue and improve even better.
01:23 Hopefully the acceptance in the community as well of those people to get to places by
01:28 using by foot or by bike or running.
01:32 I'd love to see the infrastructure improve for that as well.
01:35 And by that then I hope that we have a really safe environment where we can send our kids
01:39 into town and they can have a nice cold drink or something and come home after school.
01:45 So those are probably the things that are most important to me that the community stays
01:49 the same but we improve our infrastructure to allow less traffic and more people into
01:56 the centre of the city.
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