Public Transport Advocacy Plan Advocating for a Better Public Transport Network and Service
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DECEMBER 2019 PUBLIC TRANSPORT ADVOCACY PLAN ADVOCATING FOR A BETTER PUBLIC TRANSPORT NETWORK AND SERVICE IN CONJUNCTION WITH PUBLIC TRANSPORT ADVOCACY PLAN Data sourced from Glen Eira City Council, Department of Transport and PTV. Research references are included in the endnotes. Title of the document and cover image were updated in September 2019. 2 PUBLIC TRANSPORT ADVOCACY PLAN CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 4 INTRODUCTION 10 TRAVEL AND THE ROAD AHEAD TRAVEL 14 TRANSPORT PRECINCTS AND THEIR REACH 19 FUTURE LAND USE CHANGES 22 ADVOCACY INITIATIVES INTRODUCTION 26 SAFETY 27 CONNECTIVITY 30 STATIONS AND INFRASTRUCTURE 33 NETWORK EFFICIENCY AND BEHAVIOUR CHANGE 35 SUMMARY OF LOCATION SPECIFIC INITIATIVES 37 IMPACT OF THE CHANGE ON NETWORK ACCESSIBILITY 38 APPENDIX PUBLIC TRANSPORT ADVOCACY IMPLEMENTATION PLAN 40 3 PUBLIC TRANSPORT ADVOCACY PLAN EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Glen Eira’s residents mostly commute to One major part of an inclusive and reliable public workplaces outside the municipality, and most, transport network is one that has frequent 66 per cent, commute to work by car. Council’s services, so people only have a short wait to Integrated Transport Strategy has set the goal to board, or interchange, between services. ‘strive for a 50:50 mode share of car and non- Residents who have access to high quality and car trips by 2031’. With very few opportunities frequent public transport services are less likely to significantly increase road capacity for private to drive compared to the residents that don’t. vehicles, this goal aims to provide alternate Figure 1 shows the current frequency and transport options to help relieve congestion and catchments by stop for Glen Eira. Higher improve wellbeing. frequency catchments are in green and lower frequency catchments are in yellow and orange. Glen Eira City Council has engaged GTA As people are more willing to walk further for Consultants to investigate and develop a rationale a high frequency service, these catchments are for what improvements it should be advocating larger than the catchment for low frequency for over the next four years. stops. The State Government of Victoria’s The map shows that Glen Eira is a tale of two responsibilities include the provision of public cities. The northern parts of the municipality have transport, so Council will be advocating to relatively good access to the public transport the State Government for these network network and the central north-south spine along improvements in Glen Eira. the Frankston line also providing good public transport access. However, the southern parts of To assist in achieving this goal of 50:50 mode the municipality are not nearly as well served. share, this report provides a short list of infrastructure and services improvements that can be reasonably achieved on the public transport network to make it more inclusive and reliable. 4 PUBLIC TRANSPORT ADVOCACY PLAN SECTION 1.02.0 Figure 1: Current Frequency and Catchment Map for Glen Eira public transport stops 5 PUBLIC TRANSPORT ADVOCACY PLAN Figure 2 shows patronage at public transport Connectivity stops across the municipality. In Glen Eira, the > Starting premium bus service for Bentleigh highest usage of public transport (shown in Figure East. 2) is also where it is the most frequent (shown in > Higher frequency public transport Figure 1). services. This report advocates for frequency > Increased span of hours for bus services. improvements to increase public transport usages > Caulfield to Rowville light rail. as well as other initiatives grouped into four categories of Safety, Connectivity, Stations and Stations and Infrastructure Infrastructure and Network Efficiency. > Rebuild Caulfield railway station and improve connectivity. A total of 16 initiatives are outlined for advocacy as follows: > More bike parking at stations. > Real-time display information at all train Safety stations and key tram/bus stops. > Level crossing removals – advocating for > Level access tram stops and low floor trams a quality solution to the final two level crossings. Network Efficiency and Behaviour Change > On-board vehicle safety – including CCTV, > Encourage workplaces to build/locate near help point intercoms, PSOs. railway stations. > Better lighting around stops and stations. > Ensure station parking is used by transport patrons only. > Journey testing for people with a disability. > Encourage walking and cycling to stations. > Crossing to and from stops. 6 PUBLIC TRANSPORT ADVOCACY PLAN SECTION 1.02.0 Figure 2: Current Average Weekday Public Transport Patronage by stop 7 PUBLIC TRANSPORT ADVOCACY PLAN EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This map shows the location of the initiatives detailed in this plan 8 PUBLIC TRANSPORT ADVOCACY PLAN SECTION 1.02.0 This map shows the location of the initiatives detailed in this plan Figure 3: Advocacy Initiatives 9 PUBLIC TRANSPORT ADVOCACY PLAN INTRODUCTION PURPOSE BACKGROUND This report provides the council and community Council’s Integrated Transport Strategy 2018-2031 with the priority public transport initiatives that provides the strategic direction for this report. The should be advocated for, or delivered, to increase Integrated Transport Strategy reflects Council’s plans public transport usage within the next four years. It and policies and the connections to relevant State provides data and research to support the value and Government documents. need of the selected initiatives. Community consultation undertaken between 2016 and 2018 formed the basis for the Integrated Transport Strategy. Many of the initiatives in this report are in response to the concerns of the community. KEY ROUTES > Dandenong Road > Nepean Highway ALMA ROAD > Balaclava Road INKERMAN ROAD BALACLAVA ROAD > Hawthorn Road > North Road HOTHAM STREET ORRONG ROAD KOOYONG ROAD > East Boundary Road GLEN EIRA ROAD KAMBROOK ROAD > Murrumbeena Road GLEN HUNTLY ROAD NEERIM ROAD > South Road GLEN HUNTLY ROAD NEPEAN HIGHWAY RIDDELL PARADE BAMBRA ROAD HAWTHORN ROAD BOORAN ROAD MURRUMBEENA ROAD POATH ROAD GRANGE ROAD NORTH ROAD KOORNANG ROAD NORTH ROAD MCKINNON ROAD JASPER ROAD TUCKER ROAD MCKINNON ROAD THOMAS STREET CENTRE ROAD MACKIE ROAD BREWER ROAD PATTERSON ROAD NEPEAN HIGHWAY EAST BOUNDARY ROAD WARRIGAL ROAD Train lines BIGNELL ROAD TUCKER ROAD Express public transport routes Local connections N 0 500 1000 1500 2000 m Figure10 4: ITS Express Routes PUBLIC TRANSPORT ADVOCACY PLAN SECTION 1.02.0 VISION AND OBJECTIVES RECENT TRANSPORT IMPROVEMENTS The Integrated Transport Strategy strives for a 50:50 Council has previously advocated for public transport mode share of car and non-car trips by 2031. Based on improvements in Glen Eira, which has seen the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data from 2016, following projects delivered: non-car mode share is currently 34 per cent of trips from the City of Glen Eira. > Level crossing removal on the Dandenong and To achieve this aim, the use of non-car alternatives will Frankston lines. need to increase where appropriate (walking, cycling, > New stations at Bentleigh, Ormond, McKinnon, public transport and working from home) by making Carnegie, Murrumbeena and Hughesdale. these options as safe, convenient, fast, reliable and > Bike parking at stations. attractive as possible. This report includes initiatives that > Extension of the bus route 703 to Middle support a public transport network that is safer, more Brighton on Sundays. reliable and convenient, faster and more attractive than > Changes to bus routes 822 and 823. today’s system and provides the additional capacity to The State Government has recently announced cater for a growing number of residents. the introduction of the new bus route 627, running A key part of the Integrated Transport Strategy relevant to between Chadstone and Moorabbin, seven days-a- this Report is the network of express public transport week. The alignment is shown in Figure 5, assuming a routes, a map of which is shown in Figure 4. 20 minute frequency in the peaks. Figure 5: Current Frequency and Catchment Map for Glen Eira public transport stops, including the new approved bus routes 627 11 PUBLIC TRANSPORT ADVOCACY PLAN TRAVEL AND THE ROAD AHEAD 12 PUBLIC TRANSPORT ADVOCACY PLAN SECTION 1.02.0 13 PUBLIC TRANSPORT ADVOCACY PLAN TRAVEL WORKPLACE LOCATIONS OF PUBLIC TRANSPORT USAGE IN GLEN GLEN EIRA RESIDENTS EIRA Data from the ABS Census 2016, shows that while Public transport usage data provided by the many residents of Glen Eira work in Glen Eira Department of Transport shows strong demand at (22 per cent*), the majority work outside the railway stations, for both the stations themselves and municipality, including to the following key work the on-road public transport connecting to them. travel destinations: These are represented by the larger circles in Figure 7. > the CBD of Melbourne – 14 per cent; The stops on the tram network (shown in green) > along St Kilda Road – seven per cent; have relatively higher usage than bus stops (shown in > east along the North Road corridor – five per orange). Given that currently, train stations and tram cent; stops have some of the high frequency services, this > Docklands – four per cent; and further demonstrates that high frequency service > the Moorabbin/Cheltenham industrial and provision is linked to high usage (and this is backed up commercial businesses – three per cent. by international research1). This provides the evidence base to some of the short term advocacy initiatives listed in this report. (* 22% of Glen Eira’s working population) 14 PUBLIC TRANSPORT