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Change Option

Strategic Summary of Key Design Features

South – Johnston St to Alexandra Parade

1) Shared street (formerly ‘Bicycle Street’) The aim of option 1 is to prioritise active transport, increase greenery and improve road safety outcomes for all road users. This option converts the southern section of Wellington Street into a shared street through a number of treatments and interventions. A shared street would make this section of Wellington Street mixed use with people cycling and driving sharing the main traffic lanes. Speeds and volumes would be reduced via traffic calming that would facilitate local access and encourage through traffic to use other arterial roads.

• Remove 10 on-street car parking spaces.

• Install three physical blocks in this section of Wellington Street to significantly reduce through car traffic (at Easey Street, Keele Street and Hotham Street).

• People cycling would share the traffic lane with vehicles in a low traffic environment.

• Additional traffic management in surrounding streets (speed humps, slow points, line marking).

• Walking infrastructure upgrades (crossings, kerb ramps, signal changes, tree shade and lighting).

• This design is similar to Napier Street, Fitzroy.

2) Widened painted bike lanes The aim of option 2 is to prioritise active transport and improve road safety outcomes for all road users. Unidirectional painted bike lanes would be maintained; safety for people cycling would be improved via reduced traffic volumes and widened bike lanes.

• Remove 12 on-street car parking spaces.

• Install at least one physical block on Wellington Street to reduce through car traffic (at Keele Street).

• People cycling would continue to use widened bike lanes (via median tree removal) next to traffic lanes carrying higher volumes of traffic than option 1.

• Traffic management in surrounding streets (speed humps, slow points, line marking).

• Walking infrastructure upgrades (crossings, kerb ramps, signal changes, tree shade and lighting).

• This design is similar to Canning Street, Carlton North.

North – Alexandra Parade to Queens Parade

1) Shared street (formerly ‘Bicycle Street’) The aim of option 1 is to prioritise active transport, increase greenery and improve road safety outcomes for all road users. This option converts the northern section of Wellington Street into a Bicycle Street through a number of treatments and interventions. A shared street would make this section of Wellington Street mixed use with people cycling and driving sharing the main traffic lanes. Speeds would be lowered and, to calm traffic, motor vehicles would be diverted off the street through road treatments.

• Remove 13 on-street car parking spaces.

• Install two physical blocks on Wellington Street to significantly reduce through car traffic (Noone Street and Council Street).

• People cycling would share the traffic lane with vehicles in a low traffic environment.

• Traffic management in surrounding streets (speed humps, slow points, line marking).

• Walking infrastructure upgrades (crossings including at Clifton Hill Primary, kerb ramps, signal changes, tree shade and lighting).

• New 30km/h speed limit

• This design is similar to Napier Street, Fitzroy.

2) Protected bike lanes The aim of option 2 is to prioritise active transport and improve road safety outcomes for all road users, Option 2 provides unidirectional protected bike lanes and traffic calming.

• Remove 66 on-street car parking spaces.

• Install kerbside protected bike lanes by removing centre median trees and one side of car parking.

• No impact on traffic movement or volume.

• Traffic management in surrounding streets (speed humps, slow points, line marking).

• Walking infrastructure upgrades (crossings including at Clifton Hill Primary, kerb ramps, signal changes, tree shade and lighting).

• New 30km/h speed limit

• This design is similar to Wellington Street south of Johnson Street