Transport & Town Planning
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Continuous Footpaths at Driveways & Side Streets
An overview of continuous footpath treatments at driveways and side streets.
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How to Design A Legal Zebra Crossing for Bikes (in Victoria)
A recent video from a new crossing in Preston highlighted a concern that practitioners and advocates have held for a long time. Drivers struggle to understand a pedestrian crossing that is not a traditional zebra crossing or a set of traffic signals. In the video, a jogger is using the new crossing on a shared…
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Deliberative Planning vs Neo-Liberalism
‘Participation under a neo-liberal political regime severely limits the democratic reach of participatory and deliberative planning.’
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A look at the new bicycle priority roundabouts in South Melbourne
As part of the Melbourne Metro Rail tunnel project, Moray Street in South Melbourne is being partially upgraded for bicyclists in compensation for closures on St Kilda Road, which runs parallel, due to the construction of the new Anzac Station. The bicycle upgrades to Moray Street include physically separated bicycle lanes, wider painted bicycle lanes,…
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Six Bendigo trains could complete their trip up to nine minutes faster right now
Update: I sent this post to Public Transport Victoria who forwarded it to V/Line. This is their response: Thank you for your feedback regarding Bendigo timetabling. Your suggestion was sent to our Timetable and Planning Department for consideration. We have consulted with Metro trains and I can advise that most of the services listed will be…
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Photos: Caroline Springs Station a month before opening
I popped over to Caroline Springs Station on the Ballarat line to see the how the project was going before its opening on the 29th of January next year. The station has been a long time coming and has been faced with more than its fair share of issues all of which has resulted one…
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