Page 2932 - Week 08 - Wednesday, 14 August 2019
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talk about the ACT government’s investment in the Tuggeranong town centre and the work we are doing in relation to buses. As members will be aware, the ACT government has made a considerable investment in our town centres, including Tuggeranong, to support the regeneration of the areas. The government has delivered a number of improvements as part of stage 2 of upgrades to Anketell Street as we continue to work through and support the regeneration of the southern town centre of Canberra.
The upgrades are looking really good; I visited them on Monday to have a look myself. They include a raised pedestrian zone, a low-speed traffic environment, an off-road cycle lane, tree replacement with 27 additional trees, wider pavements for outdoor dining, improved lighting and more street furniture. This builds on the success of the improvements the government delivered in 2017 as part of stage 1 of the project to improve Anketell Street. Work has been happening for a considerable time in Tuggeranong town centre.
Quite a lot of construction work has been happening. That is important and I will come back to that later. We have done that work in coordination with South.Point Shopping Centre, which has also undertaken works along Anketell Street to support the revitalisation of the former Tuggeranong Hyperdome. These works have removed the clutter and opened up the space with a new paved area, street furniture, feature lighting, and planting of more suitable tree species.
Consistent with the Tuggeranong master plan completed by the ACT government in 2012 a key objective of the improvements was to create an inviting pedestrian-friendly destination promoting walking and cycling in and around this central part of the town centre. That is a practical local example of how the ACT government is improving our town and group centres by integrating the existing active travel network—footpaths and cycleways in particular—with key employment centres, shopping destinations and major public transport interchanges.
Projects like the Anketell Street upgrades help to encourage active lifestyles for Canberrans, which we know is important to improving wellbeing as well as promoting the revitalisation and urban renewal of the town centres through investment in high quality public spaces. The government is not stopping at improving Anketell Street with the completion of stage 2 of the works; it is forging ahead with further improvements for the Tuggeranong town centre as part of the laneways to the lake project, otherwise known as stage 3.
This work includes: improving upgrades to paths in the town centre along or near Anketell Street, Reed Street and Soward Way; the completion of missing links in the Tuggeranong town centre pedestrian path network; and improvements to the connections between the town centre and Lake Tuggeranong. We are also looking forward to the upgrades in the town centre continuing through the laneways project. I am looking forward to releasing the final plans for that in the near future enabling the works to continue to take the revitalisation down to the lake foreshore.
The government is investing real dollars in Tuggeranong in these improvements, for the benefit of both Tuggeranong residents and also the businesses that operate in
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