The Council Plan supports active transport
The City of Yarra has a 4-year council plan, covering 2025 to 2029:
The plan contains four strategic objectives, of which Strategic Objective 3 is ‘Building the city’, including ‘Ensure people can move safely across the city using all modes of transport’:
In our view, this means:
- Convert each block into a 30 km/h Safe Access Neighbourhood, with traffic calming and modal filters.
- Deliver an additional 3 km of protected bike lanes each year, a new pocket park each quarter, and a new wombat crossing each month.
- Adopt best-practice requirements for crossovers, and re-build 20 km of footpaths each year (including their crossovers) to improve their width and flatness, along with prohibiting all footpath parking.
- Reallocate 5,000 parking bays to deliver 1,000 mobility and access zones across Yarra, each with a loading bay, a disabled parking bay, a car share bay, a corral for shared e-scooters, and a hangar for private e-bikes.
- Extend the state government’s car parking reforms so that costly car parking mandates are eliminated across the whole of Yarra, and reform the management of on-street parking so that people are able to find a park and avoid a fine.
- Allocate $10 million per year for walking, biking, trees, and place making, guided by the Transport Strategy and the Place Making Framework, funded by the revenue gained from reforms to the pricing of on-street parking.
