The Weston Creek Community Council welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback on the Transport for Canberra 2011-2031 draft report. While we support the overall direction of the plan and its action items, we have a number of suggestions as well as concerns we wish to raise. We’d like to see these taken on board in the final version of the report, as well as in the implementation of the transport plan over the next twenty years.

Our concerns and suggestions are detailed further below in two sections. Section 1 includes general comments on the report and the ACT transport strategy, while Section 2 deals specifically with the Weston Creek district – identifying Weston Creek residents’ views on what’s in store for our area, the potential impact of proposed plans, and suggestions on how they could be improved.  Some of the key issues are summarised below for reference.

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The ACT Government has released the drafts of two important planning documents for public comment. The Transport for Canberra policy and ACT Planning Strategy will be the foundation for Canberra’s growth for the next 20 years and beyond. Both draft documents have been developed following extensive community and stakeholder engagement, including Time to Talk Canberra 2030. Your feedback is valued and will help the Government finalise the policies and implement their actions.

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The ACT Government has released its draft Transport for Canberra policy for public comment. The policy has been developed following extensive community and stakeholder engagement, including Time to Talk Canberra 2030.

The ACT Government is seeking your valued feedback that will help the finalisation of a policy and implementation of its actions.

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ACT Roads have written to all Weston Creek residents advising of a number of projects along Cotter Road and adjacent areas that will be undertaken over the next three years as part of the infrastructure requirements for the new suburbs in the Molonglo Valley.

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Bulk Water Alliance have responded to a WCCC query regarding the B-double and heavy vehicle routes to the Enlarged Cotter Dam site.

The primary road used by Enlarged Cotter Dam construction (light and heavy) vehicles is Cotter Road. Paddys River Road is a secondary route (e.g. for overweight and/or overwidth vehicle loads). Brindabella Road is used as a secondary access route into the Enlarged Cotter Dam construction site.

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The answer to Weston Creek’s car parking shortage is not more bike lanes, or more frequent bus services, it is simply more spaces around Cooleman Court – but how to achieve this is not quite so simple. Members of the community toyed with the idea of paid parking or adding an extra storey to the car park and identified areas that could be turned into more parking spaces, at the Weston Creek Community Council (WCCC) meeting last Wednesday.

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Can’t get a Car Park now at Cooleman Court?? We have spoken to Government and parking isn’t going to get any better any time soon! We will be inviting a Minister to address the community on solutions to this parking problem. Put Wednesday 26 May in your Diary now so you can come along and have your say!!!!!!!!

"Council made a Submission on this matter in March. The Guideline is being looked at by Government to identify the thresholds for where Transport Impact Assessments are to be compulsory as part of any development application in the ACT.  Not all development applications will require a Transport Impact Assessment.  Councils Submission can re read here and the Summary for Stakeholder Consultation may be accessed here.

Council was concerned that there needs to be an agreed threshold where a Transport Impact Assessment must be made. Council's issue with the draft was with the low numbers stated in several categories as well as differing numbers being stated for similar land use activities.

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TAMS’s response to the parking woes at Cooleman Court seems to be the offering up of private parking at other venues to overcome the shortage of car parking at the Centre. TAMS commissioned a study in December 2009 after WCCC raised parking at Cooleman Court as a community concern. The study results were not surprising as it found what Weston Creek residents already knew - that the main car parks are ‘operating at full capacity’!

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The new Molonglo housing developments may not be as environmentally friendly as it was once mooted to be.

The ACT Greens are so concerned the ACT Government will not uphold a commitment to ensure the project is sustainable they will hold a round table discussion on Wednesday with their Labor Party colleagues.

It is not the first meeting on the subject and according to the Greens member for Molonglo Caroline Le Couteur there has been no resolution reached with government.

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