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North Sydney Walking Volunteers Report - Sustainable Transport Committee 1 Overview: The need to co-ordinate pedestrian matters within Council and develop a pedestrian strategy to review the role of the Walking Volunteers within Council to reenergize the Regional meetings to coordinate pedestrian and cycling strategies. 1. History 1.1 North Sydney Circle Walks The North Sydney Walking Volunteers (NSWV) were formed in 1999 to develop the North Sydney Circle Walks. The first edition (2002) was produced by Martin Ellis on coloured paper from the Stanton Library budget. Because of its immediate popularity a second colour edition was produced and was regularly the item most downloaded from Council website. There have been a number of subsequent editions. The Circle Walks won a National Local Government award. 1.2. Walk to Work, School etc The NSWV’s then studied the pedestrian laneways and steps finding many were not on Council records and Council contracted a mapper to add them. We produced a sheet for each item showing condition, lighting, useability by strollers and wheelchairs etc. Signeage was installed on most laneways and steps and a new brochure Walking North Sydney (first edition produced 2005, 2 nd 2009). It mapped the pedestrian opportunities and walking times (based on the successful Geneva principles illustrayting walking times) and listed and located existing walks. It promoted walking to work, school, shops, library etc and was particularly useful for new residents. 1.3 Brook Street to Botanic Gardens Pedestrian/Cycling Link Seeing the opportunity created by Lane Cove Tunnel works and Falcon St Off- ramp construction, in 2001 we designed the missing link from Brook St to the Harbour Bridge. Our design was initially adopted by both North Sydney & Willoughby Councils, Bicycles NSW, RTA and the construction consortium. The connection from Cahill Expressway to the Botanic Gardens was quickly built but design changes and confusion meant that building the underpass and overpass were delayed. When built the delay meant massive cost increases (opportunity to use crane lost) and bad design reduced usage and bus stop lost. 1.4 Walking Sydney Harbour & Coast Network Obtaining support from North Sydney & Mosman Councils, and The Planning Department to develop the Harbour Bridge to Spit Bridge walking routes in 2004. By gaining support from first Lane Cove, Hunters Hill and Willoughby Councils and National Parks support and then Canada Bay, Leichhardt & Sydney Councils, we developed and marked the Harbour Circle and Harbour Bridge to Great North Walk network.

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Overview:

The need to co-ordinate pedestrian matters within Council and develop a pedestrian strategy

to review the role of the Walking Volunteers within Council to reenergize the Regional meetings to coordinate pedestrian and cycling strategies.

1. History 1.1 North Sydney Circle Walks

The North Sydney Walking Volunteers (NSWV) were formed in 1999 to develop the North Sydney Circle Walks.

The first edition (2002) was produced by Martin Ellis on coloured paper from the Stanton Library budget.

Because of its immediate popularity a second colour edition was produced and was regularly the item most downloaded from Council website. There have been a number of subsequent editions.

The Circle Walks won a National Local Government award. 1.2. Walk to Work, School etc

The NSWV’s then studied the pedestrian laneways and steps finding many were not on Council records and Council contracted a mapper to add them.

We produced a sheet for each item showing condition, lighting, useability by strollers and wheelchairs etc.

Signeage was installed on most laneways and steps and a new brochure Walking North Sydney (first edition produced 2005, 2nd 2009). It mapped the pedestrian opportunities and walking times (based on the successful Geneva principles illustrayting walking times) and listed and located existing walks.

It promoted walking to work, school, shops, library etc and was particularly useful for new residents.

1.3 Brook Street to Botanic Gardens Pedestrian/Cycling Link

Seeing the opportunity created by Lane Cove Tunnel works and Falcon St Off-ramp construction, in 2001 we designed the missing link from Brook St to the Harbour Bridge. Our design was initially adopted by both North Sydney & Willoughby Councils, Bicycles NSW, RTA and the construction consortium.

The connection from Cahill Expressway to the Botanic Gardens was quickly built but design changes and confusion meant that building the underpass and overpass were delayed. When built the delay meant massive cost increases (opportunity to use crane lost) and bad design reduced usage and bus stop lost.

1.4 Walking Sydney Harbour & Coast Network

Obtaining support from North Sydney & Mosman Councils, and The Planning Department to develop the Harbour Bridge to Spit Bridge walking routes in 2004.

By gaining support from first Lane Cove, Hunters Hill and Willoughby Councils and National Parks support and then Canada Bay, Leichhardt & Sydney Councils, we developed and marked the Harbour Circle and Harbour Bridge to Great North Walk network.

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Currently it has extended to Palm Beach and Cronulla (at the request of the

Coastal Councils Group) and west to Parramatta, making a 28 day walk with over 1,000 km of connecting walks and involving 23 Councils and 15 State & Federal partners.

1.5 North Sydney Pedestrian Committee and Northern Regional Pedestrian/Cycling Committee.

After the success of our original work Council formed a Pedestrian Committee in 2002 which worked closely with the Cycling Committee, each attending the others meetings. Initially it was very successful but eventually it was ignored when signage was being introduced. Location maps were not installed (although the equipment was bought), paths were created without consultation and uncoordinated with adjoining paths etc. The Volunteers resigned.

Then North Sydney created the Northern Region Pedestrian & Cycling Committee which included an increasing number of Councils and other State and Federal bodies as the network expanded. Again it was initially successful but after our resignation meetings have ceased to be held.

Our Three Year plan (2009-2012) and budget was unanimously adopted by the Regional Committee and was strongly by North Sydney , Willoughby and a number of other partners. However it was not supported by a majority of partners (most disappointedly the Coastal Councils Group with its broad membership and who initiated us extending the network up and down the coast). This has led to a stagnation of the network.

1.6 Pedestrian & Recreation Needs Studies. We have reviewed the 1999 Pedestrian Report and the 2004 and 2015 Recreational Needs studies and they are remarkably uniform and each highlights the strong demand for pedestrian and cycling activities. It seems to us that little action has been taken on the recommendations. We suggest the reports should be reviewed at the next Sustainable Transport committee focusing on : 3.1 What actions have been taken on the major recommendations, particularly the 1999 and 2004 reports, 3.2 What new recommendations are in the 2015 report that were not in the 1999 and 2004 reports 3.3 What was paid to the consultants for the 2004 and 2015 reports. 2. Current Work on Updates and Consolidation of Walks.

The draft Recreational Needs Study February 2015 highlighted the need for more walks and noted the need to update existing walks and create more. We immediately offered to do this but our request was deferred.

After repeated requests in July we were given approval to proceed but to date have not heard from the Consultants.

We have updated the 6 Circle Walks ready for printing, agreed on the changes to Walking North Sydney, completed an example of self-guided Historic Walk, prepared the anchor locations ready for Apps

These cannot be finalized until we hear from the Consultants.

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3. Major Pedestrian Works Required:

Complete Blues Point to Waverton Park Foreshore Walkway – and continuation through Berrys Bay Marina area.

Complete Brook Street to Harbour Bridge Pedestrian/Cycle Way Make Cremorne Point circle walk stroller/wheelchair accessible Make River Road underpass Finalise Darley St to Warringa Park laneway connection Location maps and signage.

Bill Orme, Martin Halliday, Graham Spindler North Sydney Walking Volunteers. November 2015 Attached: 1. Segment 2 Leaflet North Sydney Circle walk 2. Walking North Sydney 2009 (copies available at meeting) 3. Regional 3 Year Plan 2009. 4. Request for assistance from Council

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Adopted : Northern Regional Pedestrian & Bicycling Meeting 19 November 2009 The Walking Sydney Coast & Harbour Network 1. Walking Volunteers (WV) Structure & Three Year Plan. Bill Orme has returned as Coordinator of the Walking Volunteers until the end of 2011, with Councillor Veronique Marchandau acting as Liaison between the WVs and the Department of Planning & SCCG. We have three review points in the plan: i. This Regional Meeting to ascertain all partners' views, ii. If a plan is agreed to, the WVs will update and improve all brochures and produce two new brochures extending the network to Parramatta. They will strengthen the Volunteer base, work to improve network (signage, posters, displays, website, promotion, storage and distribution) and clarify the framework within which the routes are developed. Progress to be reviewed at the November 2010 Regional meeting. iii. If progress is promising, the plan will continue until the November 2011 meeting, when a new plan for a long term sustainable project will be submitted. 2. Three brochures are currently being updated, and it is proposed to enhance them. 2.1 A Harbour Circle(HC) Walk with Connections to Great North Walk(GNW) (Bill & Nedra Orme, Therese and Jim Archibald, Graham Spindler, Caroline Minogue, Pamela & Neil Hardie, Laura & Don Riddell). As the current red route on the HC is more an endurance test and by-passes the best harbour points, we have changed to emphasis to an enjoyable four day walk, with many local circle walks as in the Harbour Bridge to South Head & Clovelly brochure. We then found it was simple to enhance the HC with the GNW with negligible loss of scale, to produce a more comprehensive brochure, a considerable saving in cost, and reducing the number of brochures. The views for and against are available on request. We have commenced work on the combined brochure. It will include more popular loop walks around the Harbour and in Willoughby. 2.2 Harbour to Spit & Manly (HSM). (Dominic Adshead, Ian Napier, Neil & Pamela Hardie) The existing brochure almost reaches Manly Wharf, and can easily be extended to do so. The Harbour Bridge to Spit by the Middle Route and on to Manly (with ferry back ) is probably the best one day walk in Sydney, and having it on one brochure is a great improvement. This does not affect the overlapping Manly Lagoon North Head- Spit brochure which also is a very self-contained area. 2.3. Harbour Circle to Parramatta (HCP)-Parramatta River Walk – (Leigh Shearer Heriot, Graham Spindler, Phil Jenkyn). An application for a SSHAP grant has been lodged – the route will pass through Hunters Hill, Canada Bay, Ryde, Auburn & Parramatta Council areas. Draft maps will be circulated for test walking and comment. The grant from the SSHAP has not yet been confirmed. 3. One Network or separate Walks? The Planning Department has adopted a principle that there will be a network of regional trails linked by local feeders and district routes with an aim of providing trails at a

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maximum distance of 1.5km from within all residential areas in the Sydney Metropolitan region. This is done through its Metropolitan Greenspace Program (MGP). We believe our network is substantially implementing that principle. The National Tracks & Trails group is working on a similar plan nationally. Melbourne is basing their proposals on our network, and we are working well with them. (MGP) has helped fund some brochures and posters, holders and signage. SSHAP, a separate part of Planning, has helped fund others. The promotion of the network has been confused by the various descriptions and websites (see following item). Overseas experience is clearly that one network is far more successful and more likely to be maintained than a series of separate parts. For example the Harbour Circle Walk and the Coast Walk might be highlighted as part of the Walking Coastal Sydney & Harbour network. 4. One Website Currently there are three websites, www.walkingcoastalsydney.com.au, www.walkingsydney.net and www.planning.nsw.gov.au/harbour, none of which provides all information, although the first is the most comprehensive. We have also reserved www.walkingnsw.net. The first two are run by SCCCG and the third by Planning. It seems desirable that they be consolidated into one so as to improve consistency and comprehensiveness of information and ease of maintenance. This central site could then be accessible or linked from other sites. We are also talking with www.adventure.com.au which is a very comprehensive site. Graham Spindler & Bill Orme are preparing recommendations to achieve this. www.walkingsydney.net will be shown as the relevant website on the new brochures outlined in para 2. 6. Storage & Distribution Currently reserves, where they exist, are held at a variety of locations and under a variety of supervisions. This complicates control over reserves and restocking. Don & Laura Riddell carry out these functions in their business and have offered to do the same for all brochures. North Sydney support the offer, suggesting that they be held in rented space, with quarterly or half yearly stocktaking at locations and re-supply by couriers - the cost of this to be borne by the overall project. 7. Funding : see draft budget page 4 It is important that an order be placed with Sydway for the map and design of a brochure soon after a decision to proceed is taken. Planning has now placed an order with Sydway for the 4th edition of Harbour Circle to printers proof stage. The first three editions have been funded in a variety of ways, the third edition was funded 50% by Planning and the other 50% by the other partners. Planning will now primarily pay a share of updates and reprints equal to other partners. North Sydney Council has offered to act as banker as it did in the early stages of the project. It will act on the decisions of the Regional Committee to receive contributions, place orders and pay accounts. The follow up of unpaid contributions decided by the Regional Committee will be the responsibility of the Walking Volunteers. 8. Signage and posters We have unspent grants and supplies to mark all routes and install holders and posters. Currently the Harbour Circle and Harbour to GNW is marked throughout, and posters installed in all these areas other than City of Sydney (it has deferred a decision until it finalises its new colour scheme). The markings for the Harbour Circle will need to be redone – partly from maintenance but mainly because of the route change.

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The southern extension is mainly marked from the Harbour Bridge to South Head and down to Coogee. With the problems at Cape Banks, further south has not been done. No posters have been installed. Most routes of any length around the world are marked; this is seen to be essential. The teams working on each brochure could be responsible for maintenance in their areas. [The Spit to Manly is marked with uniform posts, and yellow bars are desirable for consistency but not essential. The GNW has posts and yellow bars are not necessary at this stage.] 9. Copyright The WV have always considered their work to be a community service, reserving only the copyright in the historic notes etc which is freely given to the project by the Volunteers from their published/unpublished works. We plan on all future brochures to insert : Anyone is free to use this brochure in whole or in part in any free publication, and we would appreciate an acknowledgement of the Walking Volunteers. Bill Orme Coordinator – Walking Volunteers

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Budget Adopted Northern Regional Pedestrian & Bicycling Meeting 19 November 2009 1. Printing (including maps etc) and other costs We estimate the following (all without GST) – all figures rounded: 1.1 Immediate 100,000 Harbour Circle (and GNW) $22,000 60,000 Harbour to Spit & Manly $15,000 $37,000 1.2 Next brochure 2010 100,000 Harbour to South Head & Clovelly $22,000 1.3 Three years 2011/12 60,000 each of the four coastal brochures @ $15,000 $60,000 1.4 Other costs Storage, delivery, signage, displays, sundries a year $5,000 pa $15,000 1.5 Website SCCG has offered to maintain the website as its contribution. 3 Year Total $134,000 NB: possibly there will be a saving from multiple use of Trunk diagram, but it might need changing. 2. Overall Levy (3 or 4 year cycle) : The following is a suggested basis for discussion – to be reviewed in May 2010. The following presumes a 3 year cycle. 14 Councils (17 but presume 3 fail to contribute) @ $3000 a year each : $42,000 pa : over 3 years $126,000 Planning Department , National Parks and Federation Trust each $3,000pa $ 27,000 3 Year Total $153,000 A further three Councils are possible, and new Councils to possibly pay for the new brochures through their areas, then an annual contribution.

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(Email to Council 30.9.15 – no reply to questions 2 to 4).

1. NS Circle Walks, Historic Walks and Walking North Sydney 1.1 We have completed the review of these leaflets and after you place the order we will proceed with finalising them for printing. 1.2 After discussions with Martin Ellis we are updating previous historic walks (many designed to be done with a guide) and turning them into self guided walks. 1.3 We have decided on the principles for the third edition of Walking North Sydney but are still awaiting information from Council (see ?) 1.4 We can then proceed with the Apps - Willoughby are updating theirs ready to join in. 2. Information from Council The Rec Needs study identified changes that need to be made and other suggestions. We have asked for details or permission to contact the consultants but have yet to receive a response. This is holding us up. 3. Pedestrian & Recreation Needs Studies. We have reviewed the 1999 Pedestrian Report and the 2004 and 2015 Recreational Needs studies and they are remarkably uniform and each highlight the high demand for pedestrian and cycling activities. It seems to us that little action has been taken on the recommendations. We suggest the reports should be reviewed at the next Sustainable Transport committee focusing on : 3.1 What actions have been taken on the major recommendations particularly the 1999 and 2004 reports, 3.2 What new recommendations are in the 2015 report that were not in the 1999 and 2004 report 3.3 What was paid to the consultants for the 2004 and 2015 reports. 4. Regional Pedestrian & Cycle Meetings These have not been held for some time and should be resumed. It is not helpful to fight amalgamations that such cooperation has faltered. We would like to prepare a report to the committee on our work - by what date do you need it?

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Adopted : Northern Regional Pedestrian & Bicycling Meeting 19 November 2009 The Walking Sydney Coast & Harbour Network 1. Walking Volunteers (WV) Structure & Three Year Plan. Bill Orme has returned as Coordinator of the Walking Volunteers until the end of 2011, with Councillor Veronique Marchandau acting as Liaison between the WVs and the Department of Planning & SCCG. We have three review points in the plan: i. This Regional Meeting to ascertain all partners' views, ii. If a plan is agreed to, the WVs will update and improve all brochures and produce two new brochures extending the network to Parramatta. They will strengthen the Volunteer base, work to improve network (signage, posters, displays, website, promotion, storage and distribution) and clarify the framework within which the routes are developed. Progress to be reviewed at the November 2010 Regional meeting. iii. If progress is promising, the plan will continue until the November 2011 meeting, when a new plan for a long term sustainable project will be submitted. 2. Three brochures are currently being updated, and it is proposed to enhance them. 2.1 A Harbour Circle(HC) Walk with Connections to Great North Walk(GNW) (Bill & Nedra Orme, Therese and Jim Archibald, Graham Spindler, Caroline Minogue, Pamela & Neil Hardie, Laura & Don Riddell). As the current red route on the HC is more an endurance test and by-passes the best harbour points, we have changed to emphasis to an enjoyable four day walk, with many local circle walks as in the Harbour Bridge to South Head & Clovelly brochure. We then found it was simple to enhance the HC with the GNW with negligible loss of scale, to produce a more comprehensive brochure, a considerable saving in cost, and reducing the number of brochures. The views for and against are available on request. We have commenced work on the combined brochure. It will include more popular loop walks around the Harbour and in Willoughby. 2.2 Harbour to Spit & Manly (HSM). (Dominic Adshead, Ian Napier, Neil & Pamela Hardie) The existing brochure almost reaches Manly Wharf, and can easily be extended to do so. The Harbour Bridge to Spit by the Middle Route and on to Manly (with ferry back ) is probably the best one day walk in Sydney, and having it on one brochure is a great improvement. This does not affect the overlapping Manly Lagoon North Head- Spit brochure which also is a very self-contained area. 2.3. Harbour Circle to Parramatta (HCP)-Parramatta River Walk – (Leigh Shearer Heriot, Graham Spindler, Phil Jenkyn). An application for a SSHAP grant has been lodged – the route will pass through Hunters Hill, Canada Bay, Ryde, Auburn & Parramatta Council areas. Draft maps will be circulated for test walking and comment. The grant from the SSHAP has not yet been confirmed. 3. One Network or separate Walks? The Planning Department has adopted a principle that there will be a network of regional trails linked by local feeders and district routes with an aim of providing trails at a

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maximum distance of 1.5km from within all residential areas in the Sydney Metropolitan region. This is done through its Metropolitan Greenspace Program (MGP). We believe our network is substantially implementing that principle. The National Tracks & Trails group is working on a similar plan nationally. Melbourne is basing their proposals on our network, and we are working well with them. (MGP) has helped fund some brochures and posters, holders and signage. SSHAP, a separate part of Planning, has helped fund others. The promotion of the network has been confused by the various descriptions and websites (see following item). Overseas experience is clearly that one network is far more successful and more likely to be maintained than a series of separate parts. For example the Harbour Circle Walk and the Coast Walk might be highlighted as part of the Walking Coastal Sydney & Harbour network. 4. One Website Currently there are three websites, www.walkingcoastalsydney.com.au, www.walkingsydney.net and www.planning.nsw.gov.au/harbour, none of which provides all information, although the first is the most comprehensive. We have also reserved www.walkingnsw.net. The first two are run by SCCCG and the third by Planning. It seems desirable that they be consolidated into one so as to improve consistency and comprehensiveness of information and ease of maintenance. This central site could then be accessible or linked from other sites. We are also talking with www.adventure.com.au which is a very comprehensive site. Graham Spindler & Bill Orme are preparing recommendations to achieve this. www.walkingsydney.net will be shown as the relevant website on the new brochures outlined in para 2. 6. Storage & Distribution Currently reserves, where they exist, are held at a variety of locations and under a variety of supervisions. This complicates control over reserves and restocking. Don & Laura Riddell carry out these functions in their business and have offered to do the same for all brochures. North Sydney support the offer, suggesting that they be held in rented space, with quarterly or half yearly stocktaking at locations and re-supply by couriers - the cost of this to be borne by the overall project. 7. Funding : see draft budget page 4 It is important that an order be placed with Sydway for the map and design of a brochure soon after a decision to proceed is taken. Planning has now placed an order with Sydway for the 4th edition of Harbour Circle to printers proof stage. The first three editions have been funded in a variety of ways, the third edition was funded 50% by Planning and the other 50% by the other partners. Planning will now primarily pay a share of updates and reprints equal to other partners. North Sydney Council has offered to act as banker as it did in the early stages of the project. It will act on the decisions of the Regional Committee to receive contributions, place orders and pay accounts. The follow up of unpaid contributions decided by the Regional Committee will be the responsibility of the Walking Volunteers. 8. Signage and posters We have unspent grants and supplies to mark all routes and install holders and posters. Currently the Harbour Circle and Harbour to GNW is marked throughout, and posters installed in all these areas other than City of Sydney (it has deferred a decision until it finalises its new colour scheme). The markings for the Harbour Circle will need to be redone – partly from maintenance but mainly because of the route change.

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The southern extension is mainly marked from the Harbour Bridge to South Head and down to Coogee. With the problems at Cape Banks, further south has not been done. No posters have been installed. Most routes of any length around the world are marked; this is seen to be essential. The teams working on each brochure could be responsible for maintenance in their areas. [The Spit to Manly is marked with uniform posts, and yellow bars are desirable for consistency but not essential. The GNW has posts and yellow bars are not necessary at this stage.] 9. Copyright The WV have always considered their work to be a community service, reserving only the copyright in the historic notes etc which is freely given to the project by the Volunteers from their published/unpublished works. We plan on all future brochures to insert : Anyone is free to use this brochure in whole or in part in any free publication, and we would appreciate an acknowledgement of the Walking Volunteers. Bill Orme Coordinator – Walking Volunteers

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Budget Adopted Northern Regional Pedestrian & Bicycling Meeting 19 November 2009 1. Printing (including maps etc) and other costs We estimate the following (all without GST) – all figures rounded: 1.1 Immediate 100,000 Harbour Circle (and GNW) $22,000 60,000 Harbour to Spit & Manly $15,000 $37,000 1.2 Next brochure 2010 100,000 Harbour to South Head & Clovelly $22,000 1.3 Three years 2011/12 60,000 each of the four coastal brochures @ $15,000 $60,000 1.4 Other costs Storage, delivery, signage, displays, sundries a year $5,000 pa $15,000 1.5 Website SCCG has offered to maintain the website as its contribution. 3 Year Total $134,000 NB: possibly there will be a saving from multiple use of Trunk diagram, but it might need changing. 2. Overall Levy (3 or 4 year cycle) : The following is a suggested basis for discussion – to be reviewed in May 2010. The following presumes a 3 year cycle. 14 Councils (17 but presume 3 fail to contribute) @ $3000 a year each : $42,000 pa : over 3 years $126,000 Planning Department , National Parks and Federation Trust each $3,000pa $ 27,000 3 Year Total $153,000 A further three Councils are possible, and new Councils to possibly pay for the new brochures through their areas, then an annual contribution.