The City of Melbourne has released the new Swanston st redevelopment plan which will see European style piazza’s across four of the main intersections.

The major development is keeping Swanston Street closed to through traffic and giving a separated cycling lane, similar to the Copenhagen style bicycling lanes.

With pedestrian and cycling injuries a by product of the existing Swanston Street structure, it is awesome that finally cyclists have been acknowledged as a legitimate alternative form of transport into the city.

Overwhelmingly improved cycling access (44%) and reduce/removing cars (34%) were the major activities supported by comments made to the City of Melbourne.

The preferred means of transport was walking (44%), followed by cycling (36%), with car usage not even rating a mention.

While this proposal is still to go before Melbourne City council’s next meeting on Tuesday 2 February, there are still a few outstanding issues being commercial vehicle and taxi access.

Overrall a promising move forward to revitalise Swanston Street while giving cyclists a safer option when traveling through the heart of the city.

This entry was posted on Monday, February 1st, 2010 at 10:18 am by Andrew Talati and is filed under News.

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