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Achieving More with Less – Utilising existing infrastructure to encourage active and sustainable transport

    2014 Study Tour Report

    by Daniel Przychodzki

    With greater awareness regarding the impacts of vehicle emissions on climate change and increasing desire to combat the obesity issue by encouraging a more active community, the challenge for Local Government is to be able to ‘retro-fit’ these established areas to provide sustainable and active transport options across the entire network, with limited budgets and other constraints.

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