7.1
Summary of key actions
A range of planning, behavioural, leadership and infrastructural actions are proposed to comprehensively achieve the Strategy’s vision and goals. These are described in the five-year action plan following. The actions have been informed by the background documents, ‘A New Future for
Cycling in Stonnington: 2013-2023 and Beyond’ and include indicative resourcing, responsibility,
partnerships, prioritisation and timing. Annual implementation plans will be prepared based on prioritisation of the five year action plan (discussed in Section 7.2) complete with a more accurate estimation of cost.
7.2
Five Year Indicative Action Plan
Refer to the following page7.3
Delivering the Strategy
Prioritising actions
The background report, ‘A New Future for Cycling in Stonnington: 2013-2023 and Beyond’ provides a detailed criteria for prioritising actions. A summary of the prioritisation criteria is provided following:
• Land-use - at the heart of the Strategy is the link between where Stonnington residents live
and where they shop and access services, get educated, access rail services, recreate and socialise.
Three criteria are applied that relate to the prioritisation of land use; where actions service any of the four major settings of the strategy framework; actions that are directly adjacent to the key land-uses (as opposed to locations that require connection via non-bicycle designated routes); and actions that support future land-use development in Stonnington.
• Safety – safety is addressed through; addressing crash hot-spot locations (eg. car dooring on
Chapel Street); and actions that have the potential to address locations of safety concern as identified through consultation with the community.
• Connectivity - higher scores are awarded to proposals completing a ‘missing link’ in an
existing local or strategic bicycle route.
• Strategic importance - bicycle infrastructure proposals that are consistent with VicRoads and
IMAP bicycle network development priorities are deemed to have strategic significance. Bicycle infrastructure proposals on strategic routes are awarded higher scores based on the following VicRoads hierarchy (in order of priority); Critical Route Corridors; followed by Bicycle Priority Routes, and Principal Bicycle Network.
• Level of separation - bicycle infrastructure varies from full to partial to no separation from
motorised traffic. The community has indicated (eg. in the Stonnington BikeScope report) a preference for greater levels of separation. Therefore actions that provide higher levels of separation are prioritised. Signage is included in the consideration of route priority.
• Implementation constraints - three key criteria have been applied as follows; negative scores
are awarded to proposals that result in a loss of car parking in activity centres or residential parking with no off-street provision; negative scores are also awarded to bicycle infrastructure proposals where the available width is below the specified standards for the given treatment; and negative scores are awarded to bicycle infrastructure proposals where the removal of certain barriers will significantly increase the cost of implementation (eg. street lights) and/or the removal of trees will be required.
Note:
The prioritisation of end-of-trip facilities has largely been determined by the Stonnington Bicycle Parking Implementation Plan (2012).
Each bicycle infrastructure proposal is assigned a priority based on score according to the above criteria – which has been translated into a five-year timeframe as presented in the action plan.
7.4
Monitoring implementation of the Strategy
It is important that Council’s progress in implementing the Strategy is monitored to measure change and identify opportunities for improvement.
For monitoring the general objective of the Strategy of increasing participation in cycling, Council has previously implemented various surveys to gauge participation. These surveys should continue to be implemented annually (as well as others, as appropriate). These may include:
- Demographics profile of cyclists - Cycling participation
- Attitudes and perceptions - Barriers to cycling - Motivations for cycling
- Issues impacting on cycling participation
• Stonnington Active Travel Survey (currently implemented through the Ride 2 School program) • ‘Super Tuesday’ counts – these are undertaken by Bicycle Network Victoria in collaboration
with councils. Cyclist numbers are counted and recorded along various routes once per year. The City of Stonnington participates in Super Tuesday through IMAP. Prior to future surveys, Council should liaise with Bicycle Network Victoria to ensure that new routes are included. • Staff Sustainable Transport (cycling) Survey – investigate interest of Council staff in cycling
including current practice, barriers to use and motivators that would enable cycling for commuter (to and from work) and work purposes.
Using automatic counters is another method for monitoring participation / use. These can be conducted using auto counters or manually.
The Australian Census of Population and Housing is a good source of data on transport modes and destination for the journey to work and can be used to monitor change over time (between surveys). Internal coordination group - a group of Council Officers representing the work areas that contribute to cycling provision across Council have convened to ensure that cycling projects are appropriately coordinated. This group will meet periodically, to plan budgets, coordinate capital works projects and program annual implementation plans.
The Stonnington Cycling Reference Group was formed in 2013. This Group comprises residents, Councillors and Council Officers with the aim of working together to consider cycling issues and opportunities. The Group meets quarterly and will provide a sounding board for implementation of the Cycling Strategy, including preparation of the annual implementation plans, revision of priorities and review of issues and outcomes.
7.3.1 Reporting
An annual report is to be prepared providing an update on progress of implementation of the previous 12 months’ actions. The report should identify the items completed, issues impacting on completion, and utilisation data (where appropriate). It should also incorporate updated data on cycling participation (as available) and changes in participation should be monitored from this data.