The National Urban Policy Is Back, But It’s Not Bold Enough Yet!

Local residents in a densely populated inner city suburb of Sydney campaign to repurpose an ugly carpark into a thriving town square

Better Streets was recently invited by The Greens’ Cate Faehrmann and Kobi Shetty to NSW Parliament House for a discussion about shared streets in NSW. Alongside our colleagues from Walk Sydney, Bicycle NSW, 30Please and Inner West Bicycle Coalition, we explored how The Greens could shape their policies to ensure more inclusive, safer and environmentally-friendly streets and communities.

The Melbourne suburbs of Fitzroy and Collingwood now have a 30km/h speed limit across all residential streets. See why this change is great news for all people using these streets along with a report from local safe streets advocacy group Streets Alive Yarra and general explainer video on the importance of low vehicle speeds on residential streets.

Better Streets welcomes the Transport for NSW Implementation review of the TfNSW Road User Space Allocation policy.

WestConnex is building a pedestrian bridge over the CityWest Link and removing all active travel surface access from Haberfield to Timbrell Park “for safety reasons”. But is there a higher priority and will the bridge encourage or discourage active travel?