Page 3563 - Week 08 - Wednesday, 18 August 2010
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cost approximately $12 million and disrupted traffic for around three months;
(b) at the time of the above works the ACT Government had before it, or was developing, a number of plans and reviews that envisaged redesigning:
(i) London Circuit – the greater Civic plan;
(ii) Northbourne Avenue – the Northbourne feasibility study; and
(iii) Bunda Street – the Cardno review of the ACT cycling and pedestrian network;
(c) implementing the designs proposed in the above plans and reviews would make the rehabilitation works undertaken in the areas largely redundant;
(d) when construction work interrupts the pedestrian and cycling networks, there are often insufficient substitute routes established for walkers and riders; and
(e) poor coordination and planning of road works has meant that a large number of major projects have occurred in the ACT simultaneously with negative impacts on commuters;
(2) condemns the ACT Government for wasting public money on rehabilitation road pavement, and rebuilding footpaths and kerbs in areas of Canberra without maximising opportunities to significantly improve sustainable travel, road safety and cycle paths and footpaths; and
(3) calls on the ACT Government to:
(a) ensure that:
(i) road works and rehabilitation are not undertaken on areas that are subject to incomplete community consultation or planning processes; and
(ii) when construction works interrupt pedestrian and cycle routes, there are safe, convenient and well signposted alternative routes made available from the start of the works; and
(b) implement a project management strategy for roadworks and other construction that minimises disruption to travel routes and considers the long-term use of roads, footpaths, cycleways or other traffic infrastructure.
This motion condemns the ACT government for wasting public money on rehabilitating road pavement and rebuilding footpaths and kerbs in areas of Canberra without maximising the opportunities to significantly improve sustainable travel, road safety, cycle paths or even footpaths.
At a more macro level, this motion is about the government’s attitude toward planning for future travel options in Canberra. The crux of the motion is this: there is a current
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