Thank you to the Glen Eira community for your engagement in our Integrated Transport Strategy 2018-31 (2024 refresh). The strategy refresh was adopted at the 25 June 2024 Council meeting.

We engaged with the community about the strategy’s refresh over a four-week period. The purpose of the refresh was to re-focus our priorities for the next five years. We sought feedback on five topics:

1. Safety principle — our statement on what we seek to achieve related to safety
2. Priorities related to efficient transport movement
3. Priorities related to attractive places
4. Priorities related to being safe and feeling safe
5. Priorities related to sustainability and climate change

In total we received 82 pieces of feedback, which consisted of 65 online survey responses and 17 email responses.

The Integrated Transport Strategy Refresh Engagement Summary Report below, details the engagement data and findings in full.

Community feedback helped us review the Strategy and reflect on our work over the last five years.

Here's what we plan to do from 2024–25 to 2029–30:

• Improve travel for all forms of transport —
  We will work with the Victorian Government to enhance public transport and road operations. This includes advocating for more accessible tram and bus stops and making our streets better for all users.
• Support our activity centres and neighbourhoods —
  We will enhance accessibility and amenities, including for people with disabilities, and create more active travel trails for everyone to enjoy.
• Make roads and streets safer —
  We will deliver local improvements, such as better crossings especially for vulnerable users. We will also plan with the community to make walking and riding bikes safer, particularly for children going to school.
• Encourage greener transport modes —
  We will make it easier to park bikes and transition to electric vehicles. We will promote active and healthy lifestyles, especially among young people.

Integrated Transport Strategy refresh engagement now closed

We want Glen Eira to be a community of child-friendly neighbourhoods that are connected to a network of vibrant and well-designed walkable activity centres — a community that will have a range of travel options to serve all our needs. We aim to reduce car use towards 50 per cent of all trips. To deliver this vision, in 2018, we launched the Integrated Transport Strategy 2018–31.

To keep up with community needs, we are refreshing the Strategy, focusing on the priorities for the next five years. This includes public transport and the road network, centres and neighbourhoods, trails and paths, safety measures and behaviours, awareness and attitudes, housing developments and charging for electric vehicles.

We consulted with you in late 2023 on your travel needs and aspirations. We learned that you want more efficient transport to move around safely; more attractive places to live, work and play; and doing so in a more sustainable way.

You can view the engagement summary report in the Document Library to view results.

What parts of the transport strategy are we refreshing?

We are seeking your feedback on the following five topics:

1. Safety principle — our statement on what we seek to achieve related to safety
2. Priorities related to efficient transport movement
3. Priorities related to attractive places
4. Priorities related to being safe and feeling safe
5. Priorities related to sustainability and climate change

Join the conversation and provide your feedback by Tuesday 7 May 2024.