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Seven locations where additional pedestrian capacity would be created.
Each change would have a localised effect. Overall however, it is not anticipated that
pedestrian capacity would be adversely impacted to the extent that safety or people’s
travel times across the city on foot would be affected.
Bus and other public transport infrastructure and services
Operational impacts on public transport infrastructure would be limited to the
proposed reconfiguration of existing bus lanes and the relocation of one bus stop on
George Street (work site: S6). Any temporary bus stop restrictions or modifications
would be reinstated following construction.
Transport modes (operational impacts)
The proposal would not directly affect transport modes, but would indirectly support
the Access Strategy by enhancing public transport priorities on key roads and
corridors (eg Clarence Street (work site: R4) and York Street (work site: R5))
and reallocating traffic priorities on the roads identified for capacity improvement in
this proposal.
Competing demands on the available ‘street space’ (operational impacts)
On-street access (kerbside allocations)
Kerbside uses would be affected during the weekday in a number of locations in
order to implement the proposal. The changes would occur at different periods
throughout the morning (6.00am to 10.00am), daytime (10.00am to 3.00pm) (referred
to as the inter-peak) and evening (3.00pm to 8.00pm) Monday to Friday. There would
also be some minor changes to kerbside uses at night and over the weekend. The
changes that would occur during the week would include:
Altered on-street parking restrictions for various transport modes
Introduced no-stopping provisions, which in some locations would be
supplemented by kerbside allocation losses
Bus zone and layover modifications
Altered loading zone timings
Kerbside allocation relocation
Kerbside allocation improvements (eg introduced loadings zones and parking
bays)
Parking modifications
Motorcycle parking modifications
Mail zone modifications.
Table 6-10 summarises the anticipated net kerbside allocation changes across the
proposal footprint during the weekday, including:
Restrictions that would be lost (negative value) during the morning, inter and
afternoon peak periods
Provisions that would be created (positive value) during the morning, inter and
afternoon peak periods.
Table 6-10 is a summary of a more detailed assessment included in Table F-2 in
Appendix F (as explained further below). The figures in Chapter 3 show the location
of each proposed kerbside allocation change within the proposal footprint.
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