Page 2623 - Week 09 - Tuesday, 11 August 2015
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Some $600,000 has been allocated to construct a new shared walking and cycle path through Bowen Park connecting to the Kingston Foreshore and making it easier to ride a loop around Lake Burley Griffin. This project will formalise the current gravel path, increasing the amenity for all users by constructing a new three-metre wide concrete path. This will improve the linkages with the developing Kingston Foreshore development area.
The budget also includes $1.5 million to facilitate the final design and construction of new road crossings on the busy Sullivans Creek cycle path in the inner north, consistently identified as the busiest section of shared path in the city. These improvements will widen the path to provide a safer space for pedestrians and cyclists to share. Recent studies have identified that almost 40 per cent of inner north residents who live near this cycle path cycle at least once per week.
The budget also allocates $200,000 to facilitate the design of stage 1 of the Molonglo cycle highway from the city to Acacia Inlet off Lady Denman Drive. This project will design the first stage of improvements to the key commuter link for cyclists travelling to the city from Belconnen, Woden, Weston and, in the future, the Molonglo Valley. The designs will include a wider shared path, better facilities for recreational users to stop and enjoy the environment and safer crossing points where the path intersects with the road network.
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Rattenbury, if you sit down, we will stop the clock. You can have your second 10 minutes, but under the standing orders you have either got to be the minister responsible for this area, which is the Chief Minister, or the appropriation unit. Under the appropriation unit, transport is not mentioned. You can take another 10 minutes.
MR RATTENBURY: That is fine. Just to be clear, Madam Deputy Speaker, I also have portfolio responsibility for sport and recreation in this area, which I will probably need to speak to later as well. But that is fine; I am happy to work with you on this one; I only have a couple of minutes to go. (Second speaking period taken.)
I was speaking earlier of funding in the budget for walking and cycling infrastructure. I will add a few further ones; it is worth reflecting on these because they are making a significant difference across the city.
We will see $150,000 to fund design improvements to increase ease of cycling and walking to and from the Kingston group centre. This project is also working with the developers of the Kingston supermarket site to consider how to improve the priority and amenity for pedestrians at the Kingston group centre. The study will also look to provide improvements to the existing paths which link the Kingston group centre with the foreshore development.
There is $100,000 to fund feasibility studies which will identify local walking and cycling path connections in Belconnen, west Belconnen and Tuggeranong. This study will pick up and progress the Belconnen master plan recommendations for active travel improvements. The study will identify and prioritise a delivery program of
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