Page 471 - Week 02 - Wednesday, 23 March 2022
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routine when it comes to the daily commute. We will be encouraging the uptake of walking, cycling, scooting and public transport, and we are working on ways to engage with community partners to amplify the message.
In particular, we will be building on the work that has been done by the Conservation Council and the Canberra Environment Centre in the Make Your Move program, funded by the ACT government. This program has been working with Canberra businesses and organisations to support their employees to discover the benefits of active travel, overcome barriers and encourage new, more sustainable transport habits. By harnessing the opportunities of active travel, linked with other transport modes, this has the potential to reduce peak hour congestion during the disruption period, as well as creating lasting change to reduce emissions and create a more sustainable transport network.
This year the framework of where and why we make our transport investments will be strengthened in the development of a multimodal network plan. The MNP will provide a strong linkage between transport projects, investment priorities and the ACT Transport Strategy 2020, and clearly articulate the role of proposed active travel network upgrades in achieving the future transport vision set out by the strategy.
The MNP is an integrated transport plan that provides a balanced and coordinated prioritisation of projects across all transport modes, avoiding the traditional method of planning for individual modes that may favour transport investments being heavily skewed towards road network upgrades. Proposed upgrades for the active travel network will be assessed and prioritised in coordination with the road and public transport network upgrade proposals.
Importantly, the MNP will consider movement and place principles in planning for the entire transport network, not just strategic transport corridors, clearly identifying which modes need to be prioritised in any specific part of the network, depending on its place or movement value.
This approach recognises that planning policy must be closely integrated with transport policy. The new draft planning act, which has now been released for public consultation, includes new activation and liveability principles which mean urban areas should be designed to promote active travel and convenient and efficient use of public transport.
This year the ACT government are changing the way we think about and plan for people’s movement around the city. We have traditionally relied on a “predict and provide” model of planning, where travel demand is predicted based on economic growth and then capacity—usually in the form of more roads—is provided to match. Instead, we intend to transition to a “vision and validate” or “place-based” model that involves a collaborative, people-centric and place-specific approach to creating environments that people will actually want to walk and cycle in.
To make this transition, one of our priorities for the coming year is to finalise a movement and place tool for Canberra which will support our network planning. This tool will ensure that new transport projects deliver benefits for all modes of travel and
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