Neighbourhood
accessibility plan
Introduction
A
neighbourhood accessibility plan is developed to help improve and promote
sustainable transport options such as cycling, walking and
public transport facilities in your area.
It helps
to deliver attractive and convenient travel choices, allowing you to get around
safely and easily.
Benefits
- Better facilities for walking and cycling to, from and around your town
centre.
- Improved safety for pedestrians and cyclists
- Improved facilities for shared mode users include those using mobility
scooters, wheelchairs, public transport and carpools.
- Makes getting around in your area simpler and more pleasant.
- Boosts the local economy by making it easier for people to travel to and
support local businesses.
How do we create the plan?
Auckland City Council works together with you, your community and other
organisations to collect information and ideas on how we can improve walking,
cycling and access to public transport.
The project team and your community stakeholder group then develop a list of
recommended actions for your neighbourhood. These will be prioritised as part
of the council's transport plan for the whole city and implemented over the next
few years.
The community may choose to include:
- new pedestrian and cycling facilities, such as cycle lanes, cycle
parking or walkways
- safer pedestrian crossings
- improved footpath lighting and safer footpaths
- bus timetables that are easier to read
- involvement in school or workplace travel plans
- educational campaigns to encourage walking or cycling and use of public
transport.
How can you help?
You know your neighbourhood best. The process relies on you to suggest ideas
to improve cycling, walking and access to public transport in your area to make
it easier and safer.
Right now, Auckland City Council is working on a neighbourhood accessibility
plan for Grey Lynn. The council will look at other areas over the long term.
Auckland City Council's role
We will co-ordinate all the people involved and ensure you have the chance to
have your say.
Grey Lynn neighbourhood accessibility plan
Auckland
City Council has undertaken audits of infrastructure, facilities and the
operation of the transport network around Grey Lynn.
Surveys have also been conducted at several locations in Grey Lynn during April
2008 asking the community and organisations about the areas needing improvement
and the actions they thought would benefit the neighbourhood in relation to
walking, cycling and access to public transport in the Grey Lynn area.
This
information gathering phase received an excellent response rate, especially from
interviews done on the Grey Lynn streets.
Information gathering from people in Grey Lynn closed in May 2008.
The
responses were summarised in the document below.
Grey Lynn neighbourhood accessibility area map
(1,173kb)
Grey
Lynn research summary
(83kb)
A number of recommended actions have come out of the research; however, the
recent reviews of the council’s capital budget spending to make affordable
progress while developing the city resulted to reprioritisation of programmes
and deferral of some works including cycling and walking related projects. This
also meant that any street improvements need to be funded out of existing
budgets. The council is now looking at making the most of existing resources to
improve accessibility in the area.
This year, there are three potential initiatives that can be progressed.
These are:
education/awareness-raising campaign through distribution of the
‘Footpaths are for people’ brochures to address issues on parking
distribution of information on options for sustainable travel
including new bus timetable in Grey Lynn
provision of bike parking at key locations around Grey Lynn.
The first two initiatives are expected to be undertaken in August to
September, 2009 while the bike parking is expected to be completed by December,
2009.
Updated August 2009
