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The City of Yarra has released plans to complete the Wellington Street bike lane project and deliver a major improvement to the busy route to the inner city from the north.<\/p>\n
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The new stages will take the route from Johnston Street to Alexandra Parade and from Alexandra Parade to Queens Parade.<\/p>\n
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The first stage was completed in 2015 and stage two in 2019. The council has previously committed to the further extensions and there has always been strong public support, including a recent consultation in 2023.<\/p>\n
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First mooted in 1993, formally proposed in 2009 and then planned in 2012, the route has proved popular with recent counts showing 2,000 riders a day on the street.<\/p>\n
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The route is an official strategic cycling corridor, which is planned as a series of links between the Capital City Trail in the north to the Main Yarra Trail in the south, including the route along Clarendon Street.<\/p>\n
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Importantly, via South Terrace it will also feed to and from the new bike route soon to be constructed along the Eastern Freeway.<\/p>\n
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The council has presented a total of four options for the new stages, two for each.<\/p>\n
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A notable feature of the latest proposals is the idea of a \u2018bicycle street\u2019, first seen on Canning Street, where motor vehicles are filtered out of the street to prevent through traffic.<\/p>\n
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This was remarkably successful in Canning Street, supported by riders on the street as well as locals, as it prevents rat-running, greatly improving the safety and ambience of the street.<\/p>\n
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Wellington Street is well suited to this arrangement, and it would retain access to local properties.<\/p>\n
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The other options do not restrict through traffic and use conventional and separated bike lanes. This would improve bike safety but would miss the opportunity to transform the street into a special place.<\/p>\n
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