New footpath to help provide safer trip to school

The safety of school children will be enhanced with the construction of a 1.3m-wide concrete footpath along a section of Tavistock Street and Totness Street in Hervey Bay.

“The project was identified as part of the Council’s Active Travel Strategy,” Fraser Coast Mayor George Seymour said.

“The pathway will also link the Torquay State School to an afterhours school care centre.”

At its recent meeting, Council adopted a revised Active Travel Strategy.

“The strategy is reviewed every five years to ensure that it is keeping pace with changes in population, where people want to live and changes in the way people move around, such as the rise in popularity and affordability of mobility scooters,” Cr Seymour said.

“The benefits of active travel are well documented and Council is focused on providing a safe accessible network to encourage people to use other ways of moving around our cities and towns besides cars.

“The result will be a reduction in congestion, pollution and healthier residents.”

A major focus of the new strategy is to provide the missing links, to join up existing sections of footpath and cycleway to make the network more accessible, user-friendly and access more places, Cr Seymour said.

The Tavistock Street-Totness Street project is scheduled to start tomorrow (Tuesday 1 September) and finish in mid-October, weather permitting.

The $75,000 project, to be undertaken by Council’s workforce, has been partly funded through the

State Government’s Transport Infrastructure Development Scheme.

The safety of school children will be enhanced with the construction of a 1.3m-wide concrete footpath along a section of Tavistock Street and Totness Street in Hervey Bay.

“The project was identified as part of the Council’s Active Travel Strategy,” Fraser Coast Mayor George Seymour said.

“The pathway will also link the Torquay State School to an afterhours school care centre.”

At its recent meeting, Council adopted a revised Active Travel Strategy.

“The strategy is reviewed every five years to ensure that it is keeping pace with changes in population, where people want to live and changes in the way people move around, such as the rise in popularity and affordability of mobility scooters,” Cr Seymour said.

“The benefits of active travel are well documented and Council is focused on providing a safe accessible network to encourage people to use other ways of moving around our cities and towns besides cars.

“The result will be a reduction in congestion, pollution and healthier residents.”

A major focus of the new strategy is to provide the missing links, to join up existing sections of footpath and cycleway to make the network more accessible, user-friendly and access more places, Cr Seymour said.

The Tavistock Street-Totness Street project is scheduled to start tomorrow (Tuesday 1 September) and finish in mid-October, weather permitting.

The $75,000 project, to be undertaken by Council’s workforce, has been partly funded through the

State Government’s Transport Infrastructure Development Scheme.