CYCLING COMMITMENTS MADE AHEAD OF THE
2020 ACT ELECTION
THE ACT GREENS UNDERTOOK TO:
Allocate a minimum 20% of the roads and parking capital upgrade budget to walking and cycling infrastructure (with a minimum $20 million per year), to build a world class walking and cycling network:
- Build seven large-scale cycling corridors:
- Woden to City
- Molonglo Valley to Civic
- Northern Molonglo Valley, Belconnen and Civic
- Improving connections to the Belconnen Town Centre
- Upgrading the existing shared path on Gungahlin Drive
- Improving the cycling connection between the Tuggeranong Town Centre and Chisholm
- Improving cycling access to the City from Ainslie, Hackett, and Watson, and make Ainslie safer
- Over 100 small upgrades to connect the gaps in our existing walking and cycling network, based on extensive community feedback
- Develop a 10 year walking and cycling infrastructure priority plan. The plan will include actions to:
- Fix missing links in local path network
- Install lighting to improve safety, particularly near public transport
- Better connect bus stops to people’s houses
- Add footpaths as necessary in busy areas of Canberra
- Identify roads that should have separated cycled paths
- Manage local traffic to improve safety for walkers and cyclists, for example lowering
speed limits or installing traffic calming measures - Continue to roll-out infrastructure upgrades to create age-friendly suburbs
- Install new seating to assist walkers to have breaks, especially at bus stops
- Establish an access committee for people with disabilities to guide government on active travel, urban planning and transport design proposal issues.
- Ensure more ‘age-friendly suburbs’ are rolled out across Canberra
- Ensure the ACT Government adopts world’s best practice cycling and walking infrastructure standards.
- Improve end-of-trip facilities
- Investment plan and initial funding to progress the Stromlo Forest Park Masterplan ($1M)
- Make the ACT a premier mountain biking destination ($700,000)
