Orientation
The CBD is Festival central – all venues are in walking distance (2 or 3 city blocks).
We’ll be updating this page with a festival map shortly.
If you are coming by train, alight at Newcastle Station and make your way across the road to to the the Info booth located in the 2011 festival club The Great Northern Hotel cnr Scott and Watt streets ( just across the road ) for a program, maps, info and directions around the festival and town.
Two wheels
Newcastle is flat and the venues are pretty close together so you’ll have fun riding around the streets with all the kids in your new bike gang. Bring your own pushie. Plus helmet, lights, safety vest & amp; chain if you do that sort of thing. And a flag. Make a pretty flag to fly off the handlebars. Then everyone in town will know you are a This Is Not Art friend!
Don’t have a bike? Then hire one:
Newcastle Community Bike Library
Buy or borrow bikes, helmets, locks and lights (cheap deposit applies).
Email: dan at newcastlecriticalmass@yahoo.com.au
106 Robert St, Islington
(02) 49616582
Open Fri & Sat 9am-5pm
Civic Bikes Newcastle-
822 Hunter St Newcastle West
(02) 4927 6277
From $12/hour or $35/day
Cycling Fitness Nutrition
133 Scott st Newcastle
(02) 49270201
cfnnewcastle@westnet.com.au
No recommendation is being made in the listing of these companies and organisations. We’re just providing information…
Free CBD buses
Jump on Newcastle Buses (the blue and white State Transit ones only) between 7.30am and 6.00pm and travel free in the CBD. So, if you are dragging your feet and it just seems too far, you could travel on the bus for one or two stops up and down Hunter St for FREE.
The Fare Free Zone is indicated by signs on the bus stops, but extends from Newcastle Station to just on the edge of Hamilton. So travel is covered from the beaches, up Darby St, right along Hunter St to the backpackers both in Hamilton and Newcastle East.
Local Bus Services
For full timetable of local bus services beyond the free CBD zone, call 131 500 or go to the State Transit website www.newcastlebuses.info
