This is the Northbound part between Southbank Boulevard and Princes Bridge, which is the only section without protected bike lanes. See https://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/media-files/2026-07/st-kilda-road-bike-lane-design-plan.pdf and https://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/new-bike-lanes

Timeline is:

>Works are currently underway and are expected to be completed late August 2026

Is this better than the current bike lane?

Whitehorse City Council is proposing an upgrade to the Mont Albert Village on Hamilton Street:

• Traffic will become one-way northbound (already in place)
• Widened and resurfaced footpaths
• New seating
• New trees
• New zebra crossing
• Draining upgrades to prevent flooding
• Street lighting upgraded to LED
• Parking spaces will be widened (I believe because the standard changed)

Stage two consultation open until Monday 31 August 2026

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The City of Melbourne are proposing some changes to local streets in Parkville to reduce traffic, discourage rat-running, and improve pedestrian and cyclist safety. These are:

• New pedestrian and cyclist crossings on Gatehouse St at Morrah St and Bayles St
• Speed limits on local streets across the area reduced to 30 km/h.
• Story Street partly closed near Benjamin Street (eastbound) and near Fitzgibbon Street (westbound) to through‑traffic.
• The northern entrance to the Park Drive roundabout closed to all traffic in both directions.
• Cars on driving west along Bayles Street and Degraves St won’t be able to turn left Street during morning and afternoon peak times.
• Cars on Gatehouse Street won’t be able to turn right into Morrah Street or Bayles St during afternoon peak times

What is your feedback on these proposals?

This is a huge proposal from the City of Maribyrnong, which includes:

• Protected bike lanes
• Updated pedestrian crossings and traffic islands
• Removal of 34 on-street parking spaces out of the current 96
• Additional greening and street tree planting
• Bus stop upgrades

Have your say here

As part of the C255whse, the amendment that implemented the Box Hill SRL Structure Plan, the brickworks site was rezoned to PRZ6 (Precinct Zone, Schedule 6).

There's lots of detail in the planning scheme, but some interesting parts:

• Extending Mont Albert Road through the site as a cycling corridor. The rest of Mont Albert Road is already a designated Strategic Cycling Corridor
• Mixed Use Zone (ie shops) within the south-west corner heritage area, and residential everywhere else
• Building heights at 3-10 storeys
• At least 5 per cent of the site converted to council-owned public open space
• Applies EAO, Environmental Audit Overlay which requires various audits before it can be proven safe from contamination

Do you think this is a good outcome, or would you rather more of it converted to parkland?

There are lots of new tree plantings and traffic calming planned, along with a heavy focus on new lighting, and an upgrade to the library and town hall reserves. New shared zones that prioritise pedestrians but allow low-speed vehicle access are also planned on adjoining Nelson and Camden Streets.

This plan is separate but related to the sale of the Coles and Woolworths car park sites to the supermarkets to allow for mixed-use redevelopment.

The complete document is in the Council Agenda.

Do you think this is ambitious enough? What do you think of removing a footpath in favour of shared zones?

GC248 was gazetted today, which implements the Burwood SRL East Structure Plan! Here are some changes I noticed:

• Heights decreased along Elgar Road, Highbury Road, and at the SRL station site
• Height increased at Greenwood Business Park (Station St/Burwood Hwy intersection)
• "Community infrastructure opportunity area" around Bennettswood Reserve removed. I'm guessing this would have been an upgrade to the sports pavilion or similar.
• Shared (cyclist/pedestrian) bridge over Burwood Hwy downgraded to pedestrian-only bridge
• New pedestrian crossing added over Highbury Road

No changes to public transport, street typologies etc.

What's your opinion on the changes?

Black Spot is a federally funded program for improving road safety through infrastructure. This year's grants were announced at the end of April, but not publicised very well. Here are some of the major Melbourne projects:

• New Street, Brighton: Implement a speed limit reduction to 50 km/h and install raised safety platforms and other supporting treatments. $629,000
• Gilbert Road, Reservoir: Install raised safety platforms, raised priority crossings, buffer bicycle lanes, green bicycle overlays at intersections, kerb outstands and other supporting treatments. Consider a speed limit reduction to 40 km/h and parking bans near intersections. $1,601,000
• Inkerman Street, St Kilda: Provide pedestrian early start signal phasing at St Kilda Road intersection, linemarked buffers at bike lane, raised priority crossing with flashing lights east of Marriot Street and other supporting treatments. Consider speed limit reduction. $927,000
• Mont Albert Road, Canterbury to Box Hill: Reduce the speed limit to 50 km/h. Install electronic variable speed limit sings at school speed zone and other supporting treatments. $702,000

Many other projects are still in design and construction from the last year of funding. You can find the full list of projects here and explore the map of projects here.

Has anyone noticed the impact of a Black Spot project before?

On 26 June we got this broad overview of the SRL Structure Plan changes, in preparation for the plans being finalised. Here the state suggested the final plans would be released and gazetted in mid-July. In this overview, we got the following explanation of the changes to Monash:

>Building heights have been reduced in the employment and innovation hubs north and east of Monash University. Pedestrian and cycling links have been refined, complementing the new street network that will form part of the new town centre in Monash.

However planning scheme amendment C176mona, which implements the Monash SRL East Structure Plan was released and is now active as of 1 July. Interestingly, the background documents for that amendment "leaked" the final Monash SRL Structure Plan.

Here are the details of the changes I've noticed in that plan. Other than what I've mentioned, everything including proposed public transport, street layout, precinct boundaries etc all remained the same.

Height Changes

• Reduction in northern Employment Growth area from 10 storeys (red) to about 8 storeys (orange)
• Reduction in height in eastern Health Innovation precinct from about 8 storeys (orange) to about 6 (light orange)

Active Transport

• Blackburn Road is promoted to a Strategic Cycling Corridor
• Scenic Boulevard and Research Way are promoted to local cycling corridors
• Finch Street Reserve and this Dunlop Road shared path demoted from "Important or Local Key Link"
• Despite the overview, I didn't actually notice any changes in the pedestrian network
• They've now explained how the active transport will be funded:

>Amend the planning scheme to introduce an Infrastructure Contributions Plan to contribute to the funding of new and enhanced transport infrastructure serving and supporting development in the Structure Plan Area

• They've now defined the way strategic cycling corridors will be implemented:

>Enhance existing infrastructure as appropriate such as by widening paths and enhancing wayfinding. Provide new cycling infrastructure where gaps exist, preferably in the form of off-road shared use paths, separated cycling lanes or on-road cycling lanes as appropriate for the link.

• And for local cycling corridors:

>Enhance existing infrastructure as appropriate such as by reducing speeds on local streets and enhancing wayfinding. Provide new cycling infrastructure where gaps exist in the form of off-road shared paths or 'sharrow' treatments (with associated speed mitigation / reduced speed limits) as appropriate for the link.

Open Space

• "Westerfield Drive Reserve" proposed here, east of the Hutton-Westfold Observatory.

So, what do you think of the changes? Notice anything else in the new planning scheme or structure plan that I've missed?