Estate development is a long and complicated process. Active travel can be lost in the process, buried under other priorities. We need to get it right. Should active travel infrastructure fall short, it will be expensive to fix. A generation would grow up being chauffeured around rather than riding to school or friends. This is a real culture change barrier.
Tag Archives: Territory Plan
The Territory Plan is a statutory document that guides planning and development in the ACT by managing development in the ACT, enabling assessment of development applications, and guiding the development of new estates and the management of public land.
Section 2.1 The UK approach to network design
We cannot make a baby without a baby-making machine.
Active Travel Infrastructure Interim Planning Guideline (PATACT)
For a strategy to be implemented, the vague ambition must be specified in detail. To plan and build a bike path, urban planning practitioners need a specification. An introduction to Planning for Active Travel in the ACT: Active Travel Infrastructure Interim Planning Guideline.
Urban development in 8 steps
Good active travel infrastructure in the ACT requires some understanding of urban planning. The ACT Government provides many documents that are very detailed, and often highly technical, so that it is easy to become overwhelmed. A simple explanation of urban planning in Canberra is a good start.
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