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 Appleyard’s seminal ‘Livable Streets‘ research in the 1960’s and 1970’s showed that social interaction improves when traffic flow is reduced.
Yarra policy
Council has adopted a ‘Local Liveable Streets‘ document, with an aspiration to create high quality places where people want to spend time in, feel safe and feel connected to their local area and community.
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
We have a web-page for many streets in Yarra, too many to list, so search for your local street, or click one of the links to highlighted streets:
- Balmain Street
- Brunswick Street North
- Canning Street
- Coppin Street
- Cremorne Street
- Drummond Street
- Gold Street
- Lennox Street
- Napier Street
- Nicholson Street
- Park Street
- Rose Street
- Stephenson Street
- Trenerry Crescent