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Katoomba Charrette Report & Town Centre Strategy Action 8.3.4 - Use design guidelines and standards to improve access for elderly, baby strollers, etc. 8.3.5 Access from Cascade & Parke Streets to Katoomba Street The street block bounded by Cascade, Parke, Bathurst and Waratah Streets, is over 600 metreslong, about four times longer than most pedestrian-friendly urban street blocks in a town centre. Access both for vehicles, cyclists and pedestrians to the Town Centre from the west is very difficult. Extensive access improvements from the west should be achieved, as in the following Action Plans. Action 8.3.5 - Investigate the potential for development of additional link roads and pedestrian routes throughout the town centre. Such link roads would include: providing link street/s or at least pedestrian way/s between Parke and Cascade Streets to provide greater pedestrian and vehicular permeability. These links should be considered in association with any redevelopment of sites in this area; improved pedestrian linkages between the TAFE east site and Katoomba Street, possibly located beside the Carrington Hotel redesign of the Katoomba Civic Centre to provide additional safe and attractive pedestrian links between Katoomba Street and the redeveloped TAFE site and district-shopping precinct. 8.3.6 Echo Point To Katoomba Heritage Trail The distance of about 2.5 kilometres between the Town Centre and Echo Point was recognised at the Charrette as not too far to walk or cycle as a recreational journey, and many agreed that the Lurline Street route was quite pleasant for the most part. This walking/cycling link between Echo Point and the Town Centre deserves to be enhanced and celebrated, by interpreting key features along the way with some sort of plaques to inform passers-by and to make the passage all the more appealing. The Charrette also proposed improvements in the vehicular and pedestrian function of a couple of key intersections along the route (see Sections 8.6.5 and 8.6.6). Action 8.3.6 - A ‘pedestrian trail’ along the footpath, with route information, should be developed between Echo Point and the Town Centre along Lurline Street. Possible measures to achieve this would include preparation of a self-guide brochure, signage and interpretive information at major highlights and improvement of the pedestrian amenity along the route. 8.3.7 Cycle Facilities Cycle facilities, such as places for cyclists to shower after arriving at work, or for bike racks where cycles can be stored and locked, are too few in the Town Centre. Such improvements would encourage more cycle use both for locals and visitors, thereby increasing public fitness while reducing energy consumption and the need for road improvements for larger vehicles. Action 8.3.7 - Investigate proposals from the Bikeways Plan to encourage environmentally sustainable transport use. 52
Katoomba Charrette Report & Town Centre Strategy 8.4 Proposed New Street Links to the Town Centre The Charrette identified the significant deficiency of east-west linkages into the Town Centre, due largely to the exceedingly long north-south street blocks. The Charrette Team produced the following indicative plan for new street linkages, to improve access to the Town Centre and to relieve congestion at its too-few intersections. Only two possible public street opportunities, in the street block between Cascade and Parke Street, could be identified at present due to land ownerships, existing development and topographic constraints. These were through the Department of Housing Property, but this opportunity was lost because the Department of Housing was “too far” along in an already approved cul de sac development on this property. The other link already exists physically in the form of a private roadway at the southern edge of the Gateway site, abutting the TAFE West site. This opportunity should be protected by zoning it as a public street. Charrette Proposed New Linkages Plan 53
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