Parking maximums in West Melbourne
Amendment c385melb has been gazetted by the state government Planning Minister, eliminating parking minimums and imposing parking maximums: Our view Streets Alive Yarra supports the amendment. We’d like to see …
Auckland’s parking subsidy
Auckland Council has estimated that they subsidise on-street parking by NZ$1 billion per year: The value was announced in the council meeting on 31st March 2022, listen between 18:00 and …
Democracy Agenda – publish reports
The Australia Institute has published a democracy agenda for the 47th Parliament: Including a recommendation that reports from consultants be published: This mirrors the proposal made by Streets Alive Yarra …
Driving Reform
The Joint Select Committee on Road Safety presented its final report, Driving Reform: final report for the Inquiry into Road Safety, to the House of Representatives and the Senate on 25 March …
Amsterdam street design standards
The City of Amsterdam has released its Red Book (Handboek Rood), with design standards for many details of street design. An accompanying publication is the Green Book with standards for …
State government fails on Safe System
The state government Department of Transport (DoT) has released updated speed zoning policy, failing to implement Safe System by refusing to include 30 km/h as a standard option. This policy …
National Preventive Health Strategy
The Australian Government has released the National Preventive Health Strategy 2021-2030, with a vision to improve the health and wellbeing of all Australians, and a focus on increasing physical activity …
Open Government council trees
Following on from our previous articles on: Open Government, and Open Government – CEO salary, and Open Government – councillor briefings; we suggest that a commitment to Open Government should …
Open Government councillor briefings
Following on from our previous articles on: Open Government, and Open Government – CEO salary; we suggest that a commitment to Open Government should also include publishing a summary of …
Open Government CEO salary
Following on from our journal article on Open Government, we suggest that when Yarra appoints a new CEO, council should follow the lead of Mornington Peninsula Shire and publish the …