Matt Faber
- Manager Planning & Operations, Transitways, Roads &
Traffic Authority of NSW, Sydney Australia
Sydney’s first T-way might never
have seen the light of day but for planners’ 20-year-old
decision to reserve a public transport corridor to Sydney’s
(then) urban fringe. Yet the T-way, as built, barely uses this
reservation.
The delivery of this innovative public
transport facility illuminates a number of useful principles in
the practice of integrated public transport and land use planning
(which delegates will be able to witness first-hand during T-way
technical tours). These include the need for early actions to
protect a vision of land use change that may lie somewhere over
the far horizon; and (when the time comes to deliver transport
links) a pragmatic approach to grasping opportunities for integration
with surrounding urban form wherever these may be found.
As well as describing where the newly
opened T-way came from in strategic planning terms, and highlighting
key attributes of its urban design, the paper outlines the approach
to integrating the future North-West T-way links with urban development
already under way on today’s growth frontier.
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