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City Goes Door to Door to Deliver TravelSmart Message
Households around the City of Melville are being visited by bicycle couriers who are delivering the TravelSmart message.
The door-to-door deliveries are part of the City of Melville TravelSmart Household Program, which aims to increase residents’ awareness of active modes of transport, including walking and cycling, and in turn reduce their reliance on cars.
In August and September, 38,500 residents were contacted by phone to talk about traffic and transport issues in the City and see if they would be interested in receiving local transport information. Those who said yes are now receiving deliveries of individually tailored information packets, including maps and timetables, to give them greater access to active transport modes.
Mayor Katherine Jackson said the program, run in partnership with the Department for Planning and Infrastructure, was part of the City of Melville’s commitment to sustainability. “We encourage residents to walk, cycle or use public transport wherever possible to not only reduce their impact on the environment but also make them healthier and happier,” she said. “Having a large number of people making small changes will make a big difference.”
The 2007 Travelsmart Household program is being offered to residents in Bateman, Brentwood, Bull Creek, Kardinya, Leeming, Mount Pleasant, Murdoch, Willagee and Winthrop.
TravelSmart Officer Leon Ebbelaar said it followed on from the success of a program that the City offered to 19,000 residents in 2003. “This program helped to reduce 3500 tonnes of greenhouse gases by cutting 1.75 million car trips, encouraging 490,000 more walking trips, 170,000 cycling trips and an extra 215,000 hours of healthy exercise each year,” he said. “We expect bigger things out of this year’s program to ensure even more people will take up the challenge to pick one or two trips usually taken by car each week and exchange them for active modes such as cycling, walking or using public transport.”
For more information about the Travelsmart Household Program, phone 9431 1860.
Congratulations on a great initiative
As Sam suggests, more improvements in cycling and public transport facilities are needed, but it's great to see the commitment to, and progress towards, the ideal is being made.
Keep up the good work!
bah!
Travelling by bike is only viable (for most of us) over a short range, and people dont take buses and trains coz 1 theres not enough of them and 2 for the majority the stops are too hard to get to. If you drive to stop bythe time you return to your car chances are youll owe your local gov $75 (or is it more now?). If you ride to a stop (like i do) where do put your bike? Tie it to the nearest thing that looks like it wont budge, but only on days it doesnt look like rain. My $800 bike has an aversion to water. I think a lot of people commuting between perth and surrounding suburbs would be willing even prefer to catch the bus/train if there was more support in this area.
To make public transport viable you need to take a leveled approach: [walk out your house]>[bike to the stop]>[bus to the hub]>[big mumma to the big buildings] get It?
Support the bike in its domain
Support public transport in its domain
DONT NEGLECT THE COUPLING
put your money where propangda is.