‘WE NEED TO GET ON OUR BIKE’

A COOMERA business owner says the northern end of the Gold Coast should be capitalising on adventure tourism.

Ian O’Brien, who has owned Cycle Ox at Coomera for 10 years, said his customers regularly travelled to

New Zealand or Tasmania for bike trails.

“Every week I’ll have someone come in and tell me they’ve gone interstate CYCLE TRAILS/M1

to ride,” he said. “That could happen here ... people could travel (to the Gold Coast) to bike ride but we don’t have the infrastructure in place.

“The Gold Coast needs to become more bike friendly because it’s huge for tourism.

“They should stop wasting our money on trying to get a cruise ship terminal.”

Mr O’Brien said the M1 was another major issue for people living and working within the Coomera electorate.

“I’m lucky I always travel out of peak times but you definitely hear (customers) talking about how slow it is,” he said.

“I’m not sure what the solution is (but) it needs to be fixed.”