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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 |
Even in the CBD on the Frome bikeway cars cut cyclists off daily. Motorists fail to look over their shoulder as they turn. Every day that I cycle to work I feel unsafe. I also get yelled at by cyclists (when doing the correct thing) as they don't understand cyclist rules/rights. Maybe a separate light for cyclists?
Could be performance, video, dance etc. Maybe individual silent disco stations throughout the City, where people can go and express themselves, let themselves loose.
If we want to support local business during these uncertain times, we will need to look at how comfortable people feel accessing these businesses, in particular transport directly to/from business strips. We will also need to acknowledge the role of pollution in sustaining a virus in communities. Here are some great initiatives being announced around the world and I hope to see Adelaide become the #CyclingCity! 🚴♀️🚴♂️🚶♀️🚶♂️🌏💪💚 " Many cities have already announced measures, from hundreds of miles of new bike lanes in Milan and Mexico City to widening pavements and pedestrianising neighbourhoods in New York and Seattle. The initiatives are designed to allow people to move around urban spaces safely in a world where physical distancing will be the norm for the foreseeable future – and do so without sparking a drastic increase in air pollution." In recent weeks scientists have tentatively linked air pollution to Covid-19 mortality rates and even the spread of the virus. Narayanan added: “Action needs to be taken now which will help people move around without the congestion, pollution and ill-health that comes with car use now and after lockdown is lifted.” ¹ ... " In London, Sadiq Khan announced plans on Wednesday to give more space to cyclists and pedestrians across the capital in an effort to encourage “green and sustainable travel” and prevent a spike in car use and pollution after the lockdown. “Covid-19 has exposed the inequality in our society and deep flaws in our economy, which fail people from deprived communities more than anyone else,” he said. “We need to come out of this embracing a new normal and with a renewed drive to address the climate emergency.” The move came as Transport for London modelling revealed there could be a 10-fold increase in cycling, and up to five times the amount of walking, compared with pre-coronavirus levels, if people returned to work but avoided public transport." ² ¹https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/01/city-leaders-aim-to-shape-green-recovery-from-coronavirus-crisis ² https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/07/world-cannot-return-to-business-as-usual-after-covid-19-say-mayors
All the suburbs may want to EMBRACE the idea as well. No need to reinvent the wheel, as stylized version of the caring emoji on FB would be fine.
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