Ballarat's 40 under 40: Pat Shaw - The Courier - December 15 2023 - video Dailymotion

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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