Let’s build a beautiful, liveable and accessible city
Streets Alive Yarra is a resident & ratepayer action group with a vision for thriving neighbourhoods where streets are used by people of all ages, irrespective of whether they choose to walk, cycle, use public transport or drive.
Latest posts
Council Plan 2025-29
Streets Alive Yarra offers the following suggestions for the: Council Plan 2025-29 10-Year Financial Plan 10-Year Asset Plan Community Infrastructure Plan Council Plan 2025-29 We suggest that the content of the existing Council Plan 2021-25 should be broadly retained, with adjustments to: accelerate parking reform, to ensure that people who need to drive and park…
Accelerate GIS
Better decision-making and greater accountability through data Summary Accelerate GIS is a proposal to Council put forward by Streets Alive Yarra – a group of residents who support a more beautiful, liveable, and accessible city. We suggest that Council enrol residents and other volunteers to populate the database of Yarra’s geographic information system (GIS). The…
The importance of Coppin Street
Coppin Street is a local (non-arterial) street, but has traffic lights at both Swan Street and Bridge Road, allowing safer crossing of these busy arterial roads and connection through to other parts of Richmond. For this reason it is a popular walking route for kids to get to Richmond Primary School, Richmond High School and…
New video – Kneen Street
The City of Yarra has added a new piece of active transport infrastructure to improve access between the Capital City Trail and Kneen Street in Fitzroy North. Thanks Council! Published 6 December 2024
How you can help
Some of our supporters
Ali Wirtz
Champion for West Clifton Hill.
Marlou
Champion for Richmond High School.
Denali
Champion for Collingwood College.
Saskia
Champion for Richmond Primary School.
Lisa Byrne
Champion for Brunswick St North.
John Handley
Champion for Brunswick Street.
Crystal Legacy
Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning, University of Melbourne.
Thami Croeser
Urban Planner, RMIT University.