Streets Alive

The City of Subiaco has received a grant as part of ‘Streets Alive’; a State Government funding program.

The program focuses on road safety improvements and speed reduction to help save lives and reduce injuries for all road users, including pedestrians and cyclists.

The intersection of Rokeby Road and Barker Road in Subiaco has been identified as an area in need of road safety improvement. The City is would like to explore ways to improve road safety at this location.

During this project the City will be engaging with local residents, business owners, and other key stakeholders. The City will work with the group to jointly explore the problem at this intersection and workshop potential solutions to increase safety for all road users.

If you feel passionately about safety improvement in Subiaco and want to share your local knowledge to create a safer town centre, we would love to hear from you.

How to be involved

The City is working with Aha! a community consultation agency to undertake intercept interviews in the streets and businesses surrounding the intersection on:

• Friday 29 November from 2pm to 3pm - primarily focusing on business interviews
• Saturday 30 November 8am to 11am - pedestrian interviews

In addition to this, if you want to provide your feedback or find out more, please fill in the submission form below, or contact us at engagement@subiaco.wa.gov.au or 9237 9222.

Outcome

Who did we speak to?

We spoke to an even balance of businesses and pedestrians with 42% identifying themselves as a resident/rate payer of Subiaco. 36% identifying themselves as business/workers in Subiaco, while 14% were both a resident/ratepayer and a business/worker in Subiaco. The remaining 8% were visitors/shoppers to the area.

What did we learn?

• 83% of respondents frequent Rokeby Road daily
• 97% felt that it was important for the city to look at the safety of pedestrians and traffic at this intersection.

In exploring the responses, there was significant similar sentiment towards the intersection.

• Just over 70% of respondent would want any design to prioritise pedestrians over vehicles. This is mostly because people saw the area as being a ‘pedestrian walking area’, however, there was recognition that this was a ‘shared road'.
• 60% of respondents prefer an approach that delivers designed infrastructure changes, as opposed to lighter, more visual changes. The common reason is that the infrastructure changes force the designed change in traffic flow.
• 83% of respondent see the element of place making as either very important (69%) or important (14%). 14% it had moderate importance and 3% said it was not very important. 
• This was important because of the need to maintain a quality visual appeal and aesthetics and to maintain the ‘community character and identity’ of Subiaco. 

Overall, those who supported a change of the Rokeby and Barker Roads want to see the project fit in with the Subiaco identity and ensure the safety of all road users.