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- 15th Avenue
- The Australian and NSW Governments are upgrading Fifteenth Avenue between Cowpasture Road and Devonshire Road, widening the road from two lanes to four lanes. Planning and design are progressing to deliver the road widening to improve the most congested section of the corridor.
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- A2MP
- Alexandria to Moore Park project that seeks to manage traffic from Westconnex into Sydney’s local suburbs.
- AT
- Active Travel – walking and cycling
B
- Better Streets
- A national coalition of people and organisations across Australia who want to make our streets better. Five key recommendations: Get kids active, slow vehicles down, boost local businesses, make more crossings, provide transport choices.
- Bicycle NSW
- Bicycle NSW is the peak advocacy body for recreational cycling in NSW – membership, advocacy, insurance and legal advice, supporting NSW cyclists. Bicycle NSW works closely with WalkSydney.
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- CANA
- Climate Action Network Australia. Climate Action Network Australia members are nonprofit organisations who collaborate to advocate for better climate solutions, to protect people from climate change, to safeguard our natural environment and to build a fairer and healthier Australia for everyone. WalkSydney is a Member.
- CBC
- Canterbury Bankstown Council, a local government area in NSW.
- CWANZ
- Cycling and Walking Australia and New Zealand (CWANZ) is the Australasian lead reference group for walking and bike riding on transport and recreation networks.
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E
- Erko
- Erskineville, a suburb in NSW.
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- Friends of Erskineville
- A residents action group on issues that affect the suburb of Erskineville.
G
- Gil Peñalosa
- Guillermo Penalosa is a Canadian urbanist who was the runner-up in the 2022 Toronto mayoral election to Mayor John Tory.
- GIPA
- Under the Government Information Public Access (GIPA) Act 2009, you can apply for access to government information.
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- HPAA
- High Pedestrian Activity Area. A NSW gov assignment to streets with high pedestrian activity that instigates the delivery of infrastructure and reduced speed zones.
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- IFP
- The International Federation of Pedestrians (IFP) is a global, UN-accredited non-profit network founded in 1963 that advocates for pedestrian rights and liveable public spaces. WalkSydney is affiliated.
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- LR
- Light Rail
M
- motonormativity
- Motonormativity is a shared bias whereby people judge motorised mobility differently to other comparable topics.
- Movement and Place
- Movement and Place is a cross-government (NSW) framework for planning, designing and managing our transport networks to maximise benefits for the people and places they serve. Designed to focus more on people and purpose.
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- NSW Schools Infrastructure
- NSW government agency for delivering new schools.
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- Open Streets
- A NSW Government grants program that provides funding of up to $150,000 to temporarily close streets to vehicles and open them on a day, or series of days, for placemaking activations for people.
P
- PlaceScore
- A data tool that captures and presents your community sentiment.
- PT
- Public Transport
- PTAL
- Public Transport Accessibility Levels. To be replaced by the Transport Access Indicator for Public Transport (TAI-PT)
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- Safe Streets to School
- Safe Streets to School is a community advocacy group and initiative focused on making local neighborhoods safer for children to walk, bike, or scoot to school.
- SCATS
- The Sydney Coordinated Adaptive Traffic System, abbreviated SCATS, is an traffic light control system and intelligent transportation system platform for monitoring, controlling, and optimising the movement of people and goods in cities through the operation of traffic signals.
- shared bikes
- Public bicycle scheme where people can sign up and use communally available bikes, usually e-bikes. Brands include Lime, Ario, Hello.
- Sweltering Cities
- Sweltering Cities is Australia’s only national advocacy organisation working specifically on issues related to extreme heat. We are focused on the health and wellbeing of our communities by advocating for better, climate-safe cities.
- Sydney Alliance
- The Sydney Alliance brings together diverse community organisations, unions, religious organisations and schools to advance the common good and achieve a fair, just and sustainable city.
The Sydney Alliance is a non-party political organisation.
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- TAI-PT
- Transport Access Indicators for Public Transport. TAI-PT is intended to replace the existing Public Transport Accessibility Levels (PTAL). Prototype open for consultation Sep 2026.
- TfL
- Transport for London
- TfNSW
- Transport for NSW. The NSW government agency in charge of transport, roads, walking, cycling.
- Transport Camp
- A participant-led unconference connecting planners, researchers, technologists and advocates shaping urban mobility. Held annually in Sydney and Melbourne.
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V
- victim blaming
- When people say or imply that a person who experienced a crime or abuse (the victim) is partly or fully responsible for what happened.
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- walkability
- Walkability for transport is calculated based on three key factors: land use mix and services of daily living (something to walk to); street connectivity (a way to get there); and dwelling density (higher population densities are associated with increased populations needed to supply services and different land uses) (Giles-Corti et al., 2014). These factors influence how people move around their local neighbourhoods to complete everyday activities and the importance of access to supermarkets, convenience stores, petrol stations, newsagents and public transport stops in community design.
- wombat crossing
- A wombat crossing is a pedestrian zebra crossing built on top of a flat, raised road hump that sits level with the surrounding footpath.
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- zebra crossing
- A designated pedestrian crosswalk marked with wide, parallel white stripes on the road surface that resembles a zebra’s coat. See wombat crossing for when it is raised.