City of Melbourne Transport Strategy

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On 8 May, the Council's Future Melbourne Committee unanimously endorsed the City of Melbourne's Transport Strategy 2012. The final document incorporated changes recommended through a last round of public consultation in March and April.

Read the Future Melbourne Committee Meeting documentation.

These changes are outlined in the council report. Read the Transport Strategy 2012 Draft – Report on the Second Round of Public Consultation March 2013.

The final strategy with all approved changes will be published shortly.

Background

The City of Melbourne Transport Strategy 2012 is an update of the 2006 strategy, Moving People and Freight which has guided our access and mobility initiatives and decision-making over the past five years. The report haas been influential in Melbourne's wider transport discussion and debate and on the development of the State Governments transport policy agenda.

Community and stakeholder engagement

The final City of Melbourne Transport Strategy document is the result of extensive community consultation. In May 2011, Council’s Future Melbourne Committee endorsed the first round of consultation on the draft strategy. Ninety submissions to the draft were received and these informed the development of the March 2012 draft strategy.

Download a table of submissions (PDF, 809kb)
Download a table of submissions (text only, 516kb)

The following submissions can be downloaded as separate files:

ARUP (PDF, 166kb)
RACV (PDF, 361kb)
John Smith (PDF, 2.3MB)
Pitt and Sherry (PDF, 518kb)
Victoria Walks (PDF, 1.2MB)
Going Solar (PDF, 785kb)
Bus Association Victoria (BusVic) (PDF, 548kb)

(The files provided here are not City of Melbourne documents and cannot be supplied in a text only format. If you need to access these documents in a different format please contact us).

Please note: all submissions will be made public unless otherwise specified.
You can also register for updates on current and upcoming City of Melbourne consultations.

Focus of the strategy

The strategy has six key directions which represent the most important aspects of this strategy and outline the areas in which the City of Melbourne’s advocacy and actions will be concentrated. These are:

integrated transport and land use planning
go anywhere, anytime public transport for inner Melbourne
optimise the transport effectiveness of inner Melbourne’s roads
create pedestrian friendly high-mobility public transport streets in the Central City
make Melbourne a cycling city
foster innovative, low-impact freight and delivery in central Melbourne.

Initial areas of action

A number of actions have been identified in the strategy. These have been divided into actions that the City of Melbourne can achieve and those which will require strong collaboration and partnership with relevant stakeholders

Actions that City of Melbourne will take directly:

Flinders Street Station Precinct - expand and upgrade the walking network to and around Flinders Street Station, local tram stops and transport interchanges.
Swanston, La Trobe and Elizabeth Streets - Expand and upgrade the Central City cycling network for safe and convenient central city cycling.
Swanston/Elizabeth corridor - Improve the options for Central City freight delivery on a precinct basis working with businesses in the two street corridors to find better delivery options.

Actions the City of Melbourne will need to work with others on;

Melbourne Metro Rail - Increase rail capacity to meet growth in demand. The new Footscray-Caulfield metro rail line is the key to unlock a doubling of the capacity of the metropolitan rail network. The five new metro rail stations in the municipality will need to be well integrated into surrounding the city.
Tram routes 96, 109, 19 & 112 - redeveloping our tram streets as High Mobility Streets ready for the new generation of low floor trams. This will include laying new resilient tram tracks, completing the installation of level access stops but designed for much better integration with the pedestrian flows in the street, and incorporating bicycle access.
A new road Network Operating Plan for future growth – an agreed plan with Vicroads for developing and managing the municipality’s road network to give much stronger priority to the high volume of trips by tram, bus, cycling and walking.
High Speed rail links - developing a fast, reliable and high capacity transport link between the Central city and Melbourne airport and integrating this with a very high speed rail link between Melbourne CBD and Sydney CBD and the regional centres in between.