Strathcona & Golding Street upgrades
Consultation has concluded
In late 2020, the City is looking to upgrade Strathcona and Golding Streets to make them more accessible for all road users.
The proposed upgrades will convert Strathcona and Golding to Safe Active Streets.
Safe active streets (also known as bike boulevards) are cycle routes on quiet local streets, where traffic calming measures allow for a safer shared street.
The Cleaver Precinct (bordered by Charles, Loftus, Vincent and Newcastle) is made up of quiet, leafy streets that are great places to walk and ride, with Beatty Park Leisure Centre, Leederville town centre and the City close by. To improve safety and encourage walking and cycling in the area, the proposed upgrades to Strathcona & Golding Streets focus on:
- Improving access to key community facilities such as Beatty Park,
- Reducing vehicle speed and congestion by lowering the speed limit to 30km/h on Strathcona and Golding Streets, which is consistent with the City’s existing Safe Active Streets,
- Connecting residents to existing high quality paths,
- Improving crossings at roads along the route, and
- Increasing the City’s tree canopy.
Stage 1 of this route, involving improvements to Florence Street, was approved at the 17 March 2020 Council Meeting and commenced in September 2020.
An Accessible City
The proposed Safe Active Street in the Cleaver Precinct directly contributes to the second priority of the City's Strategic Community Plan, Accessible City.
Combined with the recently completed signalised pedestrian crossing at the corner of Florence and Vincent Street, along with the improvements that are currently underway on Florence Street, the proposed upgrades to Strathcona and Golding will provide an improved walking and cycling connection from Beatty Park Leisure Centre in North Perth and the Principal Shared Path.
This project will also improve on the wider bike network, linking to the recently completed bike lanes on Loftus Street, the bike boulevard on Shakespeare Street, shared paths in Charles Veryard and the bike lanes further north on Scarborough Beach Road.
Proposed Ugrades
The proposed upgrades include the addition of speed bumps on Strathcona and Golding Streets, new tree wells and a raised junction at Old Aberdeen Place.
These traffic calming measures will result in the planting of 3 new street trees in Strathcona Street in addition to 15 new trees that were installed on Golding Street in 2019. The proposed works will incur no loss of on street parking.
Concept plans and information from the Department of Transport can be viewed below and from the sidebar. More detailed plans of the proposal are available to view at the City of Vincent Admin building on request.
Share your thoughts
Any thoughts or comments can be submitted via the feedback form below, by mail or you can contact us on 9273 6000 or mail@vincent.wa.gov.au.
Comments are invited until 5pm Friday, 30 October 2020.
