Let’s improve where we live
Our residential streets can be much better, with more trees, lower speeds and space to relax, meet and socialise.
Livable Streets
Donald Appeyard’s seminal ‘Livable Streets‘ research in the 1960’s and 1970’s showed that social interaction improves when traffic flow is reduced.
Solutions
We need to filter and calm residential streets within 30 km/h superblocks, and then gradually invest in greening and place making. The image below shows a proposal for Oxford Street in Collingwood, from the community group Our Streets are not Garages:
Image credit: Our Streets are not Garages
Guidance from the UK
The following image shows a ‘filtered street’ part of a new ‘filtered neighbourhood’ in the City of Manchester, UK.
Design proposals
The following links present suggestions and designs for residential streets:
- Argyle Street
- Balmain Street
- Brunswick Street North
- Canning Street
- Charles Street
- Coppin Street
- Cremorne Street
- Drummond Street
- Dunn Street
- Gold Street
- Gwynne Street
- Jamieson Street
- Kerr Street
- Lennox Street
- McCutcheon Way
- Napier Street
- Nicholson Street
- Noone Street
- Park Street
- Park and Vere Streets
- Rae Street
- Rose Street
- Station Street
- Stephenson Street
- Studley Street and Yarra Street
- Trenerry Crescent
- Wellington Street (Cremorne)