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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1996 Week 3 Hansard (26 March) . . Page.. 667 ..

MS HORODNY (continuing):

in terms of these very important principles. If the bureaucrats need some better direction as to how to apply these principles in the local arena, there is a very good local Agenda 21 paper which has been put together and which clearly spells out how to put these sorts of things in place.

One particular recommendation that I was concerned about was to do with the Mouat Street issue. This whole issue has highlighted the need to really think about traffic management broadly in the ACT.

Debate interrupted.

MR SPEAKER: Order! It being 5.00 pm, I propose the question:

That the Assembly do now adjourn.

Mr Humphries: I require the question to be put forthwith without debate.

Question resolved in the negative.

Debate resumed.

MS HORODNY: Mr Speaker, I will be brief. Traffic management needs to be looked at broadly in the ACT. I believe that at the moment we deal with traffic management in a very ad hoc way. We need an integrated approach and we need to have a clear view of what our suburbs are going to be like in 10 or 20 years' time. If we do not act now, the traffic problems will simply escalate and create all sorts of problems in the future. Obviously, in the inner north the issue needs urgent attention. It is not just Mouat Street; there is Miller Street in O'Connor and Brigalow Street in Lyneham. Today's paper had an article about Officer Crescent and Ebden Street in Ainslie, Cowper Street in Dickson, Currong Street in Reid and Kitchener Street in Hughes. I am sure that we can all name a dozen other streets in suburbs which need some attention in terms of traffic calming and indeed possibly redirecting traffic in a very serious way, particularly during peak hours.

The issue of bike paths and on-road cycling has already been discussed today. I believe that we do have a good system of bike paths in the ACT; but, unfortunately - other speakers have made the point already - the direct route is what commuters prefer, for obvious reasons. We really need to look at this issue more fully in future traffic planning. The safe-cycle bike routes also need to be considered and put on the regular

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