
Better Streets Australia
Australia’s peak body for safer, healthier and more sustainable streets.
Our recommendations
Better Streets Australia has five key recommendations for federal, state and local governments.
Get kids active Encourage 75% of children to walk, cycle, scoot, or take public transport to school everyday, setting them up for healthy habits for life.
Slow vehicles down Adopt 30km/h speeds for local residential streets, and urban centres to significantly reduce avoidable injuries and fatalities.
Boost local businesses Improve and expand beautiful streetscapes that people enjoy spending time and money in.
Make more crossings Encourage walking and improve safety with 20 new or improved crossings in each council each year.
Provide transport choices Add another 1,000 kilometres of connected safe, and direct cycle & micro-mobility routes per year.
What’s happening?
Congratulations to Sara for raising $1,000 for Better Streets by running in the Sydney Marathon. Amazing to see the streets of Sydney transform into a 42 kilometre cheering stadium for 35,000 marathon runners. What an amazing example of how Open Streets can be achieved.
Sleeping bags and marshmallows not required but like a traditional summer camp of our youth, Transport Camp brings together a bunch of people united in the common interest of making our cities better to live in and move around, for a day of discussion, community, learning and support.
The new cycleway is a life-changer for me at the age of 78! It’s a much safer, more enjoyable journey, not only for an old lady, but for anyone, young and old, who wants to ride their bicycle. With this new cycleway the route down Oxford Street now links with other parts of the City of Sydney’s growing bike network, making it easier and safer to ride to other favourite destinations, such as Alexandria, Newtown and Balmain.
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