Theme 5: Moving around

Major achievement

Strategic objective

Travel options are safe, efficient and accessible with active and public transport encouraged.

Major initiative 5.6

Represent the Boroondara community in decision making by advocating to the Victorian government in relation to public and active transport, open space, urban design and environmental opportunities associated with the North East Link and the Union Road Level Crossing Removal projects.

Our efforts this year enabled us to secure funding from the North East Link Program (NELP) for canopy tree planting at Freeway Golf Course, and maintenance of NELP-funded canopy trees at Hyde Park.

In addition, we continued to:

• identify sites for further tree planting to offset NEL tree removal
• review plans for site investigations planned by NELP and their contractors to ensure impacts on residents and amenity were reduced where possible.

We worked closely with Level Project Removal Project (LXRP) throughout the Big Dig (mid-February to late-May 2023) for the Union Road LXR, which was a difficult time for residents and traders. We advocated for shuttle buses to provide local transport and shopping incentives to support local traders. During this period, we ensured services such as bin collections continued as normal and endeavoured to protect parking spaces in the village.  Our work with LXRP also involved refining designs for the extended Union Road Bridge and open space to provide green spaces that support community activity, connection and relaxation in the Surrey Hills shopping precinct.

Theme 5 performance

This is a breakdown of the strategic indicators, progress of initiatives and other service performance indicators for this theme. You can find out more detail about these indicators and previous year’s results in the full report.

You can also read through our continuous improvement initiatives, community engagement, and benchmarking activities for this theme in the full report.

Strategic indicators

A number of our strategic indicators saw consistent or improved results in FY2022-23. The strategic indicators that met or exceeded the forecast include the following.

Some indicators did not meet our forecast this year:

Progress of initiatives in the Budget

Initiatives that were completed in FY2022-23:

• Seek to provide an integrated bicycle network that is safe, connected, protected, efficient and appealing to bicycle users of all ages and abilities by developing and adopting a bicycle strategy.
• Provide a safe and accessible shared path for the community by advocating to the Victorian Government for the Box Hill to City cycling corridor project.
• Encourage public transport use and improve access and safety through a range of infrastructure initiatives for the Walmer Street Bridge, Yarra Boulevard and public transport services including disability access through advocacy with the Victorian Government.
• Encourage sustainable travel options by undertaking bicycle promotional and behaviour change programs for children including travel plans for primary and high schools and Safe Routes to School initiatives.
• Represent the Boroondara community in decision making by advocating to the Victorian government in relation to public and active transport, open space, urban design and environmental opportunities associated with the North East Link and the Union Road Level Crossing Removal project.

The one initiative for this theme that commenced in FY2022-23 and is 75% complete was improving safety and security of shared paths and paths by progressively installing energy efficient lighting. For this we are progressively lighting the extensive network of shared paths and paths with a focus on the Anniversary Trail between Whitehorse Road and Mont Albert Road.

Other service performance indicators

The following other service performance indicators and measures are based on the FY2022-23, unless stated otherwise.  For more detail, including supporting commentary and how these results were calculated, see the full annual report PDF.

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