Join our campaign for better streets
Campaigning for a more beautiful, liveable, and accessible city means that we’re engaged in a contest of ideas. Progress depends on the support of local residents. Every person can make a difference – here are some ways you can help.
- Speak with your local councillor. Email them, call them, or chat with them face to face; tell your story and explain why you want to see more investment in footpaths, bike lanes, trees, and pocket parks.
- Make a submission to each annual budget, asking for increased spending on footpaths, bike lanes, trees, and place making. Every supporting submission helps make this happen.
- Be the champion for your street or neighbourhood. Your name, photo, and testimonial appears at the bottom of one of the pages on this website, and you’re included in our list of supporters.
How to be a champion
Campaigning for better streets means that we’re engaged in the Politics of Public Space. People are often more comfortable to support something, e.g. a new pocket park, when they believe that most others support it as well. Appearing on our website as a champion helps to build this social proof, i.e. to show that many people in Yarra do indeed want to reallocate space for footpaths, bike lanes, trees, and pocket parks.
Appearing as a champion involves your name, photo, and testimonial appearing at the bottom of one of the pages on this website, and being included in our list of supporters. It takes 10 minutes of your time; there’s no ongoing effort, and no cost. Simply choose any page on this website that doesn’t already have a champion, and then contact us. Or, if you search for your street and can’t find it, ask us to create a page for you.
Tell your story
Here’s one story – we can help you to tell yours.
I want Council to spend more on footpaths, bike lanes, trees, and 30 km/h zones, because I have a daughter who walks or bikes to school, sport, and friend’s houses, and I’d like her to arrive in one piece. Her friends also walk or bike to our house, and I’d like their journeys to be safe as well. When my parents or in-laws visit, they often walk to the supermarket or the train station, they need smooth footpaths and safe crossings. I think that making it easier to walk or bike will benefit many people, of all ages and backgrounds. It’s the right thing to do.
Jeremy Lawrence, Streets Alive Yarra President
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