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Consultation has concluded
Adelaide is a city designed to continually support and enrich the wellbeing and quality of life of its people.
As such, in the wake of the impact of COVID-19, we're looking toward a positive future and have asked what you need from our city in the weeks, months and possibly even years to come.
Together, we need to recover + reimagine Adelaide as a thriving city.
Thank you!
We have been overwhelmed with all of the incredible ideas we have received from the Adelaide community throughout our Recover + Reimagine initiative. Your contribution has helped us better understand how we can assist Adelaide to recover from the affects of COVID-19 and reimagine itself as a thriving city.
We have implemented a broad range of effective and exciting ideas, with a few highlights including distributing 140 heaters to hospitality retailers to encourage outdoor dining, and the installation of festive lighting in Melbourne St, O’Connell St and Hutt St to welcome our community back into the city.
These are just a small number of ideas implemented so far, with many more completed or still to come over the coming months. Make sure you don't miss the great initiatives that are happening now, including:
Please keep an eye on our website and Facebook page to keep up to date with all our Recover + Reimagine initiatives.
Once again, we thank you for your invaluable contribution in helping our wonderful city to not only recover, but to also reimagine what’s possible!
We invite you to share your ideas. You can use words, an image or both.
To help us understand how you use the city, please include at the end of your idea any of the following hashtags which apply to you:
| #live | #businessowner | #work | #study | #play | #shop | #tourist |
Shops could join in the theme and have buskers and artists with music stops along the way. Being spread out across the city it would allow for social distancing.
Adelaide needs to become a less motor vehicle trafficked city, allowing for pedestrian only and cyclist only zones. Create a more seamless flow for vehicles to enter and exit the city. Minimising motor vehicles will allow for a greener future and more demand for the city to ride bicycles and other green transportation. The city also needs to ensure the free city loop buses do not become a thing of the past, investing into more buses and routes, allowing for individuals in the city to have the bus as an option when travelling around the CBD.
A place where people can gather at most times of the day including evenings that is not dependent on buying food or drinks to be there. Where people can engage with others or relax that is welcoming to all. There could be designated areas / times to host live music, talks, discussions, doco/film nights, jam sessions, classes, general socialising / chill spaces, kitchen, etc. All done in a cooperative, collaborative and inclusive way. It could be supported by council, donations, volunteers and have a pay it forward type ethos. A community centre, but more buzzy, vibrant and dynamic.
Increase walkability by having them on heavily pedestrian use streets like Rundle, Hindley and Gouger, similar to what is common in European cities. Have them raised perhaps and with flashing lights as I still see too many ignore the Pirie St one. Cities should be more about easy movement of people rather than cars. #live #work #play #shop
the South Australian government has implemented a phase out plan for single use plastic - this is fantastic news for our oceans and our parklands! The central market especially has been trialling plastic free options. However, items that replace plastic are usually compostable or organics based items, that then are placed in landfill simply because there are no organics bins to use! A great idea would be to increase the number of organics bins all around the city, so that we can put the existing organics (such as food scraps) into these instead of landfill, and also so we can support businesses as they transition to plastic free. We can reduce how much we send to landfill, as well as our methane emissions!
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