CBD What the Community told us Concerns • Walking and Cycling • No pedestrian routes for walkers travelling to the CBD from Estella
Opportunities • Maintained cycling and pedestrian paths. Ideally paths should be separate low-levelled bridges
• Jay-walking • Gobbagombalin Bridge is not sufficiently built for safe walking particularly from the city to the university • Insufficient number of cycle paths around the city and Pine Gully Road • Safety concerns for shared zones with vehicles and pedestrians particularly throughout the CBD • Due to the safety (particularly at night) and infrastructure concerns for pedestrians, walkers have become discouraged and are relying on cars
• Link Estella and Wagga Wagga City by cycling/pedestrian paths • Make Baylis Street a ‘naked street’ (car free) to increase the number of walkers and socializing • Encourage more bicycle use and walking by promoting different walking themes around town. - “Heritage” walk around CBD – churches, streets named after battles and soldiers
• Lack of connectivity of cycle paths around Wagga Wagga • Vehicles are often unaware of cyclist’s presence. This hinders the safety of bike riders, pedestrians and vehicles; in particular those who are less experienced and are of the younger generations • Cars, Traffic and Roads
• Link Estella and Wagga City, as well as between San Isidore and CBD by simple cycling paths. In particular, Council should look to widen the Gobbagombalin Bridge from and approaching the CBD and connecting paths to surrounding suburbs due to the lack of cyclist safety
• Heavy traffic causing danger at roundabouts • Safety • Too much reliance on cars • Traffic in CBD
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• Implement traffic lights for when drivers are approaching the Mecure roundabout • Provide consistent speed limits within city, conduct more regular maintenance of roads
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CBD… cont’d What the Community told us… cont’d Concerns • Parking • Kerbside parking is difficult with so much ongoing traffic in the CBD • Lack of parking
Opportunities • Limit/remove cars from the CBD • More car free zones • Incentives to carpool • Create a more ‘bike-friendly’ environment • Greater parking stations similar to the Oasis Regional Aquatic Centre will be needed for all day parking for CBD workers • Remove the requirement for businesses to provide parking in the CBD so the market forces can take over and provide centralised parking options • Multi-deck car park required to remove Baylis Street parking • Angle parking on Baylis Street and Fitzmaurice Street • All day parking that can be used by staff • Charging stations required for mobility scooters and electric cars • Need spaces beyond 1 – 2 hours parking
• Freight and Heavy Vehicles
• Public Transport • Cost and ticketing of public transport • Bus routes
• Divert heavy vehicles away from the CBD and school zones • Free city bus • Developing clear city loops for public transport • Limit car use in the CBD to reduce traffic and help with kerb parking • More public transport including shuttle bus to move people
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CBD… cont’d Findings from Technical Report • CBD is split into two sections: the smaller northern commercial CBD situated along Fitzmaurice Street and the larger southern retail CBD situated along Baylis Street • Pedestrian footpaths were found to be in better condition in the southern CBD compared with the north • Disconnection of the two CBD’s has resulted in different uses for both • The Baylis Street CBD contains a higher concentration of retail department stores as well as cafes and restaurants. The Fitzmaurice Street CBD contains a higher concentration of individual shops and professional firms • Free parking in the southern CBD is found largely in the shopping centre parking as well as significant on-street parking on Peter Street, Fitzharding Street and Cross Street. The northern CBD contains council operated parking as well as on-street parking. All parking in Wagga Wagga becomes free with some spaces subject to time restrictions
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CBD: Your Feedback? Emerging Strategies • Prepare a CBD masterplan that integrates land-use development, street function, car parking and accessibility • Create the CBD ‘main street’ as a public space with safe and convenient access along and across the street for pedestrians, cyclists and public transport • Improve visual, structural and strategic connectivity between the two parts of the CBD along Fitzmaurice Street and Baylis Street
• Review the disability inclusion act 2014 with respect to people using motorised scooters, wheelchairs and other people movers to determine how the requirements of the act can be met
Is there anything you would like to add?
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