Your Street, Your Say Group A

Your Street, Your Say is a program rolled out progressively to improve local streets for people who live, work, study or travel in Darebin.

Across 2021 and 2022, we engaged the community about their experiences walking, riding, driving and playing in the streets around Reservoir West, Preston West and Thornbury West - the Group A area.

This valuable feedback helped us develop a set of priority projects to address key issues and improve the safety and liveability of our streets.

These projects include new shared paths, pedestrian crossings, speed humps to slow down traffic and new infrastructure to improve safety for people riding bikes.

Thank you to everyone who provided input.

Project Map

The projects for Your Street Your Say Group A are being designed and delivered as funding becomes available. All 22 projects are featured on the map below.

Some projects have been delivered, some have been designed and some are awaiting funding. We're also advocating to the Department of Transport and Planning for delivery of projects on state-managed roads.

The coloured icons indicate which projects have been delivered, designed, are now under design and are awaiting funding.

Click on the icons to find out more and see what we've already completed, what we're working on right now, and the improvements still to come.

Community Engagement

Through two rounds of engagement across 2021 and 2022, we worked with the community to understand their concerns about local streets and develop concepts to improve safety in the Group A area.

  • Understanding the issues

    We received more than 7,000 pieces of information about your experience of walking, cycling, scooting, driving and playing in your local streets in Reservoir West, Preston West and Thornbury West.

  • Developing solutions

    We developed 21 project concepts to improve local street and asked for your feedback during Stage 2 consultation, attracting 512 submissions from the community.

  • Making change

    The average level of support across all concepts was 74%, and the feedback on these draft plans helped us shape the final improvement projects for the Group A area.

Check out the detailed summaries of Stage 1 and 2 community engagement below.

  • Group A stage 1 results

    We received more than 7000 pieces of information about your experience of walking, cycling, scooting, driving and playing in your local streets. Click the map to read more about the results from stage 1.

  • Group A stage 2 results

    We received good to high levels of support for 20 of the 21 proposed improvements, including good levels of support for the previously recommended top 8 high priority areas. Click the link to read the summary report from stage 2.

    Read the summary report 

Don’t live in Reservoir West, Preston West, or Thornbury West?

We're also working on delivering Group B and Group C based on community feedback about streets in other parts of Darebin.

Map of the City of Darebin showing Group A which includes Reservoir West, Preston West and Thornbury West in Green, Group B which includes Bundoora, Macleod, Thornbury East, Northcote East and Fairfield in blue and Reservoir East, Preston East and Northcote West in orange