"If you plan for people and places, you get people and places" - Fred Kent.
Our Vision
We’re calling for safe, healthy, people-friendly, climate-friendly streets that are accessible to all of us, to give people more options to move around safely and enjoyably.
- Safe streets – with safe space to walk, cycle and cross on busy roads and quiet, low-traffic streets in neighbourhoods
- Healthy streets – where walking, wheeling, or riding is the natural choice for short journeys, children can play, get physical, and move easily outdoors and infrastructure is provided equitably
- People-friendly streets – with lots of plants and seating, and where motor traffic doesn’t dominate – especially in town centres
- Climate-friendly streets - that promotes the growth of zero-carbon shared mobility options so that all residents have suitable, sustainable, transport choices on their doorsteps.
Our Asks
- 75% of children walk, cycle, scoot, or take public transport to school daily
- Adopt 30km/h speeds on all local residential streets, town centres and city centres
- Build 1,000 kilometres of connected, safe, and direct routes per year for people riding bicycles and micromobility
- Improve and expand beautiful streetsscapes for local business
- Build 2,560 pedestrian crossings per year
The Better Streets coalition
We will achieve our vision by building a strong coalition to amplify the many dispersed voices into a strong collective voice for change.
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Better Streets acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we live, meet and work. We wish to pay our respects to Elders past and present and recognise the continuous connection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to land, water and Country.