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.
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Plan for Victoria
The Victoria state government has released Plan for Victoria – let’s see what impact it will have on Yarra. Plan for Victoria. Image credit: Victoria State Government. Housing Target Yarra has been assigned a housing target of 44,000 more homes by 2050, requiring an average of 1,700 new homes per year, a significant increase on…
Submission to 11 March 2025 Council Meeting
Streets Alive Yarra offers the following feedback regarding some of the items on the agenda for the 11 March 2025 Council Meeting. 7.1. Extension to existing E-Scooters contract Streets Alive Yarra supports the officer recommendation to require e-scooter operators to pay $3.20 per day per scooter (up from $1 per day), because this better reflects…
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People love wide bike lanes
People love the wide bike lanes on Elizabeth Street – please don’t narrow them! These photos were taken on 4 March 2025, between 7:30 and 9:00 am. And a couple more: Please sign our petition (from Yarra BUG) to keep the Elizabeth Street lanes and buffers (to car doors) at their existing width, and not…
How to increase revenue
In the Council meeting on 11 February 2025 (meeting timestamp 1:42:00 to 1:44:00) the Mayor spoke about the budget: We’re banging on about spending a lot of money…So what you got tonight was a little bit of an entree of the debate that we’re going to have around the budget, because to do all of…