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
- Set life-long healthy habits for kids by having 75% of children walk, cycle, scoot, or take public transport to school daily
- Enable kids to be safe and independent by adopting 30km/h speeds for all local residential streets, and urban centres
- Support local businesses by improving and expanding beautiful streetscapes that people enjoy
- Make it easy to walk with 20 new or upgraded pedestrian crossings in each council every year
- Provide transport options by building 1,000 kilometres of connected, safe, and direct cycle & micromobility routes 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.