Council Minutes - Town of Cambridge

COUNCIL MINUTES
TUESDAY 28 AUGUST 2012
Response
A summary of the responses will be published on the Town's website. As the survey was
intended to be used in forming a preferred concept for future community consultation, it is
proposed to include the survey results as part of that future consultation process.
Question 4
What is Cambridge hiding, given this overall absence of total transparency
Response
The Town is not hiding anything and is using the market research in an appropriate
manner to assist in the design process.
Question 5
Each school day at around 0900 two 91 buses meet on Brookdale Street between
Rannoch and Grantham Streets - and usually between Peebles Road and Grantham
Street - outside Newman Junior College.
There are at least four Transperth bus stops between Rannoch and Grantham Streets.
The Town allows vehicle parking on both sides of Brookdale Street, but has designated a
few meters only around that College as No Stopping/No Parking and yellow lines and
letters have been painted on the road. Neither these 91 buses or other motorists are able
to pass safely, due to a combination of the both sides parking and the dozens of vehicles
parked and stopped along this stretch each morning and again each afternoon on
schooldays. Safe access to the bus stops for both passengers and these 91 buses is
prevented by the many vehicles parked near or outside the College and bus drivers have
constant difficulty in both seeing waiting passengers and in safe access to the bus stops
in very small spaces between parked vehicles.
Since similar on street both sides parking and stopping certainly is not permitted on Bent
Street and Brompton Road at Holy Spirit Primary School in City Beach, why has the
Town allowed this to continue on Kirkdale Avenue, Floreat for some years now
Response
The preamble and questions refer to Brookdale Street and they should refer to Kirkdale
Avenue.
A technical comment is that this section of Kirkdale Avenue has a constructed pavement
width of 10 metres. Normal parking allowance of 2.4 metres each side results in a clear
pavement width of 5.2 metres which is sufficient for vehicles travelling in opposite
directions to pass safely when utilising due care as required under the Road Traffic Code
2000.
On this basis it is not always necessary to impose any parking restrictions other than
those which reinforce the requirements of the Road Traffic Code 2000 and Council Policy
such as "No Stopping" near an intersection.
Both Brompton Road and Bent Street have pavement widths of 7.5 metres and cannot
safely accommodate parking on both sides of the road.
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