[Peakoil-announce] Seminar on Sustainable Transport Plan for Canberra

[Alex P]

Should be worth attending.

Alex
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Engineers Australia Canberra Division Presentation

Organised by: Transport Branch

Thursday 18 August 2005 - 12.30 for 1.00pm (Note later time)
 
Venue:  Engineering House, 11 National Cir, Barton
 
Topic:  The Sustainable Transport Plan for Canberra
 
Speaker:  Kuga Kugathas, Principal Transport Planner, Land Use &
Transpsort Policy, ACT Planning and Land Authority

The ACT Government released The Sustainable Transport Plan on April
2004. The Sustainable Transport Plan is part of the Governments
pre-election commitments for transport. It provides the direction and
actions to achieve a more sustainable transport system over the next 25
years.

With this plan, Canberra will achieve a transport system that has lower
overall costs, particularly lower greenhouse gas emissions, lower air
pollution, reduced accidents and lower health costs, and provides more
transport options for the community. 

The plan includes a package of mutually supportive initiatives to
create a cultural change for transport based on making the alternative
modes more attractive and easy to use. 
The range of measures includes:

- Busways and bus priority measures;
- Real time information;
- Improved public transport interchanges;
- Improved cycling and walking facilities;
- TravelSmart programs; and
- Integrated land use and, in particular, the achievement of the urban
structure proposed in The Canberra Spatial Plan.
 
RSVP blowe at engineersaustralia.org.au or phone 6273 1314
 
Engineers Australia
Canberra Division
Phone (02) 6273 1314


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