Putting our best foot forward

The Committee for Sydney has published Putting our best foot forward – A checklist for walkable density, which has valuable recommendations that are applicable to the Victoria state government and …

Plan for Victoria

The Victoria state government has released Plan for Victoria – let’s see what impact it will have on Yarra. Housing Target Yarra has been assigned a housing target of 44,000 …

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 …

Open Government 2025

Streets Alive Yarra recommends that the City of Yarra improve transparency and commit to open government, because we believe that this would help build a more beautiful, liveable and accessible city. We …

Melbourne can be Prague

Prague shows us how to redesign city streets, with wider footpaths, trees, and protected bike lanes: Other examples Examples of other cities are also available: https://streets-alive-yarra.org/examples/

Council Plan 2025-29

Streets Alive Yarra offers the following suggestions for the: Council Plan 2025-29 We suggest that the content of the existing Council Plan 2021-25 should be broadly retained, with adjustments to: …

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 …

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 …