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Safe and successful places
Swinburne University of Technology and iMove have published a report Exploring balance between movement and place in designing safe and successful places: Recommendations included separated bike lanes located adjacent to footpaths: Our view Streets Alive Yarra supports the recommendations in the report, i.e. to add protected and separated bike lanes on shopping streets, as well…
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Chapel Street design winner
The winner of the Institute of Transportation Engineers Australian & New Zealand design competition for Chapel Street has been announced – congratulations to the team at S.W.E.N.gineers. Design proposal The design proposal is based around the replacement of on-street parking on the west side of the street with a bidirectional protected bicycle lane. On the…
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Shopping streets recover from COVID
Writing in The Age newspaper, Simon Johanson reports that Melbourne’s shopping streets are bouncing back from COVID. Our view This is great news, and we suggest that shopping streets could recover faster if they were upgraded to make it easier for people of all ages and abilities, using all modes of transport, to access the…
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Main Street design guide
Village Well, a placemaking consultancy based in Melbourne, has published a design guide for main streets. The guide highlights what makes a great main street, including activity, accessibility, and inclusiveness: The guide points out that main streets should be designed for people, provide reasons to visit and stay, and support traders to curate the street:…
