What is Streets for People?

The Better Places Guide identified a project to undertake streetscape works to help to reduce the impact of heavy vehicle movements, through traffic and congestion on our local streets to make the area safer and more pedestrian and cyclist friendly. The following actions were also identified:

  • Reducing vehicle speeds and heavy vehicle movements through targeted streetscape works and enforcement of designated routes and controls that will reduce heavy vehicle speeds and volumes and direct traffic from the industrial area eastwards rather than through neighbourhood areas
  • Designating key village and neighbourhood streets as ‘slow streets’ and apply the principles of ‘streets for people’ to add elements such as trees and planting, street furniture, widened footpaths and water sensitive design that shift the character and priority towards pedestrians and cyclists and reduces the dominance of cars

The Northern LAMP also identified a range of treatments in local roads including the introduction of 40 Km/h speed limits on our local roads.

We previously sought your feedback on your experiences and ideas for treatments and measures to support the Streets For People project for the first area identified, being Spotswood between McLister Street, Melbourne Road, The Avenue and the railway line. Please see the 'What we heard' report in the document library for more information on the feedback we recieved.

Existing traffic conditions

Tap the hotspots to see existing speed limits, existing traffic treatments or recorded average speeds

Proposed action

All areas in Spotswood between McLister Street, Melbourne Road, The Avenue and the railway line were proposed to be within an area-wide 40km/h zone, as per the image below. This is a key element of the Streets for People project.

No change to the speed limit on Hudsons Road is currently proposed as part of this project due to feedback from the Department of Transport.

Some of our ideas for the area

  • Raised thresholds at Hudsons Road

    Benefits

    • Potential to physically discourage trucks

    • Improves walkability

    • Space for planting

    • Delineates different road environments

    Constraints

    • Can impact or reduce parking

    • Impact to drainage

  • Road humps/single lane slow points

    Benefits

    • Potential to physically discourage trucks

    • Space for planting

    • Reduces through vehicle speeds and volumes

    Constraints

    • Can impact or reduce parking

    • Impact to drainage

  • Raised intersections on local streets

    Benefits

    • Reduces through vehicle speeds and volumes

    • Reduces crash risks

    Constraints

    • Can impact or reduce parking

    • Impact to drainage

  • Trees and landscaping on local streets

    Benefits

    • Reduces through vehicle speeds

    • Visual and environmental amenity

    Constraints

    • Can impact or reduce parking

    • Can reduce or impact access to driveways

    • Impact to drainage

Other actions included in the LAMP were:

  • Safe Travel to Schools Spotswood Primary School - Raised pedestrian crossing at the entrance and intersections of McLister Street/Robert Street and Reed Street/Robert Street
  • Road Humps on The Avenue
  • Road Humps on Robert Street
  • Kerb outstands on residential streets at Hudsons Road
  • Pedestrianisation of Hope Street at the Train Station interface

These actions could also be included in the Streets for People project scope to support the speed limit reduction.

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