Frogs

•Passionate•Intelligent •Informed •Visionary •Brave •Connected •Prepared to Listen

Have a vision

•Most liveable city in the world

Principles

•Improved lifestyle•Increase walking, cycling •Improved freight – economic driver – often forgotten •Increase social and financial equity

History

•Liverpool laid out in 1927•Past plans – their intend and their impact•Regional shopping centres in town centres•Increase in population/increase in houses •Federal Government migration problem

Know the mistakes of the past

•You can’t have a bus system •Terrace housing means slums•Radburn Housing - discredited

Know what the market isn’t

•Not just CBD•Not just peak hour •Not just J-T-W•Not just long trips •Not just office workers

Know the Task

•Freight •Shopping •Journey to school •Elderly •Short trips • Opera

Know what the market is

•All sorts of trips

•Freight

•Hospital

•Shopping centres

•Schools

Know the Real Reasons

•Number of houses•Number of carriages •Types of jobs - Minto

Working the system

•Political realties

•Expert input

•Planning process

Barriers

•Cultural •Systems •Geography

A systems approach

•Employment •Health •Access to and then within

Railways

•SW link•Electrification to Wollondilly •Platform quality •Make them accessible •Lockers and showers •Ticketing

Processes

•Community input •Short term lobbying for the long term project