FAQs

It’s a plan for how people get around and what the city centre looks like in future. It's about making sure roads, pathways, and transportation all work well together, while also making the city centre an appealing place to be. It involves transport planners and community members working together to create an easy-to-navigate and enjoyable City Centre experience.

The future of public transport will focus on improving bus efficiency, increasing east-west connectivity, and enhancing the connection between Wollongong Train Station and the City Centre. We want to establish high-quality active transport infrastructure near public transport nodes, explore opportunities for bus priority infrastructure, and improve real-time information at bus stops. Key actions include investigating high-quality active transport infrastructure between the train station and Harbour near public transport nodes, explore opportunities for bus priority infrastructure, and improve real-time information at bus stops. Key actions include investigating high-quality transport, relocating the temporary bus layover at Lang Park, and rolling out actions in the Wollongong Train Station Masterplan to support the revitalisation of this area.

Key actions include reducing the speed limit to 30km/h in a specified area, adding right-turn bays on Corrimal Street at Burelli Street, and prohibiting right turns at Corrimal and Crown Streets. Additional plans involve removing the one-way treatment on Market Street east of Corrimal Street, assessing new road connections, investigating park and ride facilities, providing real-time parking signage, adding traffic signals at key intersections, and exploring a one-way northbound traffic connection on Church Street through Crown Street Mall (between Globe and Court Lanes). We’ve used traffic modelling software to test what impacts different measures may have, so we can understand what might work best. Community input will also help with that.

We want to be a bike-friendly city. The plan includes expanding protected bike lanes, shared paths, and lowering vehicle speeds for safety. Key actions are formalising bike lanes on Smith and Kembla Streets, adding secure bike parking, trialling bikes in Crown Street Mall, upgrading the Smith Street railway underpass, and creating new bike connections on several streets. The plan also includes special bike traffic signals, bike lanes going against one-way traffic, and shared paths.

Promoting biking or public transport could cut car use, ease traffic, and boost sustainability.

The plan aims to improve pedestrian safety and convenience by managing vehicle speeds, adding pedestrian crossings, and increasing shade trees. Key actions include adding pedestrian signals at various streets, removing slip lanes in Burelli and Denison Streets at Crown Street, and renewing footpaths.

Some spaces could be changed to bike lanes, pedestrian zones, and mixed-use areas, potentially reducing parking in some City Centre spots. We’ll keep asking for community feedback, roll out changes gradually, and plan for parking alternatives, to make sure we’re meeting people's needs.

Funding will be sourced from various NSW and Commonwealth government grant programs to build new things and run projects.

Planning for a future transport network involved analysing Council documents, community feedback, population and employment data, demographics, commuting patterns, car ownership, key access routes, parking resources, and road crash data. The NSW Movement and Place Framework guided how streets are categorised (main roads, main streets, local streets, and civic spaces) to make sure roads fit their specific purposes and users.

You can read the Draft Wollongong City Centre Movement and Place Plan online or view a printed copy at Wollongong Library. You have until Sunday 18 August 2024 to give feedback by:

• Completing the online survey 
• Filling out a paper survey at Wollongong Library
• Emailing us at engagement@wollongong.nsw.gov.au 
• Writing to us at Locked Bag 8821, Wollongong DC NSW 2500
• Calling us on 4227 7111
• Visiting our pop-up info stand:
  1. When: Thursday 1 August 2024
  2. Time: There’s no presentation to start, so drop in anytime between 11am – 2pm
  3. Where: Ground Floor, 93 Crown St, Wollongong (building near the fountain)

The feedback we get will help us refine and complete the Plan before we present it to Council for adoption (approval). After adoption, we’ll start work to deliver the actions in the Plan. People who make a submission (share their thoughts) will receive a summary of feedback and notification when the report goes to Council.