The test of Active Travel Standards is whether they are applied in new estate developments.
Tag Archives: Estate Development
Opportunities lost in estate development
New estates could showcase what Canberra could be.
Planning bike networks is doable
We cannot make a baby without a baby-making machine.
Whitlam new estate: find the bike paths
Where’s Wally? for bike paths.
The Castle of Taylor
The play space (playground) in the new estate of Taylor, Gungahlin.
Circumnavigating the Coombs Peninsula
The suburb of Coombs was completed a few years ago but without playgrounds, paths or amenities. This is now slowly being built.
Active Travel Infrastructure Interim Planning Guideline
For a strategy to be implement it must be specified in detail what the vague ambition means in concrete terms. Putting the financial cost of infrastructure to one side, what does it mean to build a bike path. For this the urban planning practitioners need a specification.
The Active Travel Infrastructure Practitioner Tool is dated
“It is not intended to represent the facilities that currently exist on the routes, rather it shows the best alignments for human powered transport and recreation. …”
What is wrong with Molonglo 3 East
A case study for Molonglo 3 East Planning and Infrastructure Study Project Brief and urban planning of new estates in the ACT. The ACT Government announced in the 2012 ACT Planning Strategy that it “sought to create a more compact, efficient and inclusive city” The proximity between new suburbs in Molonglo Valley and the cityContinue reading “What is wrong with Molonglo 3 East”
Active travel between Whitlam and Denman Prospect
A case study of two independently planned developments that are of particular interest to active travel in the Monlonglo Valley.
