BUS STOP ACCESSIBILITY

Beginning in May, AdaptWest will be co-hosting a series of free online seminars designed to inform, educate, and encourage you to take steps to make your home more energy efficient and climate resilient.

The seminars will be presented by experts from the national sustainability organisation Renew and will cover an exciting range of topics over several months:

• Winter Energy Efficiency for Renters

– Tuesday 16 May

• Winter Energy Efficiency General – Tuesday 23 May

• Electric Vehicles –

Thursday 15 June

• Buying Green Power – SA focused – Tuesday 4 July

• All-Electric Homes

– Tuesday 25 July

• Sustainable Design 101 –1, 8, 15 and 22 of August

• Solar and Batteries (who don’t already have solar)

– Thursday 7 September

• Solar and Batteries (for those with solar) –

Tuesday 12 September

• Summer Energy Efficiency for Renters –Thursday 16 November

• Summer Energy Efficiency General –Tuesday 21 November adaptwest.com.au

These seminars will inspire you to take practical steps based on the most up-todate information to make your home more comfortable and reduce your energy bills.

AdaptWest is the Western Adelaide region climate adaptation plan, a partnership between the Cities of Charles Sturt, West Torrens, and Port Adelaide Enfield.

Visit the AdaptWest website to find out more about these sessions and to register.

In 2008, we embarked on a project to upgrade all our bus stops to meet the requirements of the Disability Standards for Accessible Public Transport prior to December 2022 (in line with our legislative requirements).

We have upgraded 580 bus stops, with only a handful on Seaview Road remaining where the verges are very steep. These will be upgraded in the coming years.

Our bus stops are now accessible with flat boarding surfaces, tactile ground surface indicators and ramps to reach the bus stop, enabling our community to use public transport safely and easily. The total cost of this initiative was approximately $6 million.

In addition to the upgrades, our community have told us that providing more bus shelters would encourage more people to use public transport.

Supporting sustainable travel is a key action in the City of Charles Sturt’s Transport Plan and Net Zero Strategy in response to climate change.

We’ve listened and from your feedback we have recently entered in a new contract with Claude Outdoor to provide new bus shelters for our community. The partnership provides new shelters at priority stops throughout our City, in exchange for revenue from the advertising panels on new and existing shelters for Claude Outdoor.

New shelter locations will be chosen based on patronage with priority given to warmer areas of our City.

In a staged approach, over the next 4 years you’ll see new shelters installed. We hope they will encourage more of our community to consider public transport as a sustainable method of transport.