Active Transport Action Plan 2020-2030
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DETAILED ACTION PLAN Active Transport Action Plan 2020-2030 Draft December 2020 7 destinations Safe & Strong Clean & Green Prosperous & Innovative Moving & Integrated A proud inclusive A clean and sustainable city A smart and evolving An accessible city with community that unites, with healthy waterways and city with exciting great local destinations and celebrates and cares natural areas opportunities for many options to get there investment and creativity Safe & Strong documents Clean & Green documents Prosperous & Innovative Moving & Integrated are guided by the Social are guided by the documents are guided documents are guided Inclusion Lead Strategy. Environmental Sustainability by the Prosperity and by the Transport Lead Supporting Plans, Action Lead Strategy. Supporting Innovation Lead Strategy. Strategy. Supporting Plans, Plans and Policies cover Plans, Action Plans and Supporting Plans, Action Action Plans and Policies such themes as being a Policies cover such Plans and Policies cover cover such themes as child friendly City, children’s themes as managing our such themes as revitalising accessibility, pedestrian services, community safety catchments and waterways, our centres, employment, and cycling networks, and crime prevention, natural resources, hazards investment, being SMART pedestrian and road inclusiveness, community and risks, emergency and creative, and providing safety, transport hubs, services, universal access, management, biodiversity opportunities for cultural and asset management. reconciliation,ageing, and corporate sustainability. and economic growth. community harmony and youth. Healthy & Active Liveable & Distinctive Leading & Engaged A motivated city that A well designed, attractive A well- governed city with nurtures healthy minds city which preserves the brave and future focused and bodies identity and character of leaders who listen local villages Healthy & Active Liveable & Distinctive Leading & Engaged documents are guided by documents are guided documents are guided by the Health and Recreation by the Liveable City Lead Council’s Lead Resourcing Lead Strategy. Supporting Strategy. Supporting Plans, Strategies. Supporting Plans, Action Plans and Action Plans and Policies Plans, Action Plans and Policies cover such themes cover such themes as Policies cover such themes lifelong learning, active preserving the character as open government, and healthy lifestyles, and and personality of centres, managing assets, improving providing quality sport and heritage, affordable services, long term funding, recreation infrastructure. housing, and well operational excellence, managed development. monitoring performance, being a good employer, civic leadership, and engaging, educating and communicating with our community. Strategic Planning Framework Summary The Strategic Planning Framework (SPF) maps out the role of all current and future Council strategies and plans that work to deliver the vision for the City. The framework works from the highest level of strategic direction in the Community Strategic Plan through to more detailed plans that will eventually drive works projects and programs on the ground. The framework is comprised of the following levels: The COMMUNITY STRATEGIC PLAN (CSP) is our highest level plan and translates the community’s desired outcomes for the city into key destinations. The CSP includes community suggested actions which can be tested in the development of all other plans. LEAD STRATEGIES are Council’s response to the CSP and provide high level strategic direction on key 1 challenges facing the City. They are informed by a sound evidence base that considers key trends and an understanding of the implications of key issues and opportunities on the City. SUPPORTING PLANS break down broad theme areas discussed in LEAD STRATEGIES into smaller 2 themes providing high level actions. SUPPORTING PLANS identify broad works projects and programs required to deliver on these actions. Supporting plans include indicative costing and resourcing requirements and delivery timeframes. DETAILED ACTION PLANS take actions from SUPPORTING PLANS and identify specific works projects and programs 3 required to deliver on these actions. Supporting plans include detailed costing and resourcing requirements and delivery timeframes. GUIDELINES, POLICIES AND CODES provide detailed information, rules for activities or guidance for specific 4 works on Council or other lands. Contents Message from the Mayor Introduction Our City How we move Community survey Strategic context Issues and opportunities Vision and principles Strategies Supporting initiatives Action plan Funding Get involved Appendix Full list of proposed footpath works Further detail on proposed cycling routes Acknowledgement The City of Canterbury Bankstown acknowledges the traditional country of the Daruk (Darag, Dharug, Daruk, Dharuk) and the Eora People. We recognise and respect their cultural heritage, beliefs and relationship with the land. We acknowledge they are of continuing importance to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living today. If you could transport yourself to a City of the Future one of the things you would find are more and more people reliant on walking and riding bikes. But the City of the Future could be today! Walking or cycling, otherwise referred to as Active Transport, have been proven to be both environmentally friendly and good for your health, not to mention the social and economic benefits. Every day, Active Transport, plays a role in our lives whether it’s commuting the whole journey, or simply part of a journey. Not only does it enhance your travel experience it allows and provides opportunities for people to socially connect with one another, particularly around town and village centres. Imagine a bustling Message from town centre, people chatting and socialising and how good it would be for local businesses the Mayor and the local economy. An increase in people walking and cycling will help reduce traffic congestion, enabling efficiencies in the movement of goods, people 6 Active Transport Action Plan 2020-2030 and services. The benefits of shifting from the The City of Canterbury Bankstown is covered by use of private vehicles to Active Transport, a network of over 908 kilometres of roads, but have significant environmental advantages like car-centric planning and a lack of safe walking improvements in local air quality, reductions in and cycling infrastructure has led to a reliance greenhouse gas emissions and noise pollution. on private vehicles and an increasing amount of traffic congestion across the City. If there was a positive to come out of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was a resurgence in As the City continues to grow, this is not walking and cycling, as people adapted to new sustainable. Council has an ambitious vision ways of living, working, and moving about. to see more people using not only public transport, but also Active Transport as their With the closure of many sporting facilities preferred mode of travel. and the difficulty of social distancing on public transport, we have seen an increase in the Canterbury-Bankstown is at the heart of number of people walking and cycling, not Greater Sydney’s transport network. We need only for recreation and exercise but also as a to provide better connectivity not only across preferred method of commuting our City, but also across the broader transport networks in Sydney. Like many areas across Sydney, Canterbury- Bankstown Council has received an increasing The Active Transport Action Plan identifies number of requests to provide more walkways the priority infrastructure projects that will and cycleways. have the greatest impact on improving the walkability and cyclability of our City. Now is the time to act and capitalise on these new habits and the communities strong desire for more infrastructure. Clr Khal Asfour, MAYOR Active Transport Action Plan 2020-2030 7 01 Introduction Vision Our Community Strategic Plan, CBCity To provide a high quality, 2028, highlights the community’s connected walking and aspiration to be a city that is Moving and integrated, an accessible city with cycling network that great local destinations and many enables our residents to options to get there. choose active transport The Canterbury-Bankstown Active to move about the City and Transport Action Plan is the first strategic beyond. plan focused on walking and cycling for the City that aligns the former Council’s positions on walking and cycling Principles infrastructure. The Active Transport Action Plan supports the aspirations of To guide our work, Council the Community Strategic Plan by seeking will prioritise work that; to provide an interconnected walking and cycling network for the people that • Connects people; live in, undertake activities within and • Connects transport; and pass through the entire Canterbury-Bankstown LGA, • Connects places. while integrating with the broader metropolitan strategies and bicycle network of neighbouring LGAs. 8 Active Transport Action Plan 20xx-20xx The former Bankstown and Canterbury Councils utilised Bike Plans and Pedestrian We are a destination City. Access and Mobility Plans (PAMPs) to identify priority work for walking and cycling infrastructure. The 2016 Canterbury Bike Plan and a 2011 Bankstown City audit of Pedestrian and Cycle Facilities identified work that would deliver 588 113 75 on the visions of the former Canterbury Parks Schools Sporting and Bankstown City Councils. However, the Complexes routes