2019-10-08 Services & Organisation Committee Agenda

SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                        8 OCTOBER 2019


Information Management Systems – VMS & App
Item                    Risk                                                                  Mitigation
Scope/Deliverables      VMS boards ineffective in advising motorists of parking               Reduce the number of messages displayed on the VMS boards.
                        availability.                                                         Evaluate effectiveness of VMS boards through survey question.
Scope/Deliverables      Low uptake in download of the Go Noosa App                            Marketing material will promote the Go Noosa App

Traffic Control & temporary wayfinding – Hastings St precinct
Item                    Risk                                                                  Mitigation
Scope/Deliverables      The traffic control may not be fully effective if not attended to     Develop procedures that are appropriate and flexible and monitor to
                        diligently and in a fully coordinated approach.                       direct changes when needed.

Programme               Traffic control seen as “road works” in Hastings Street               Traffic controllers to undertake “Welcome to Noosa” training. Work
                                                                                              within existing standards to enhance the uniform for traffic
                                                                                              controllers to provide a festive, holiday atmosphere.

Finance                 Use of traffic control dependent on weather and traffic conditions    Monitor need for traffic control and span of hours. Note inclusion of
                                                                                              contingency.
Temporary Bus Queue Jump
Item                    Risk                                                                  Mitigation
Scope/Deliverable       Bus queue jump is not long enough and does not give                   Monitor and measure.
                        measurable improvement.

                        The bus queue jump trial and the Noosa Parade design upgrade          Mitigate through communications.
                        not in alignment
Finance                 Risk that costs for trial are not seen as value for money             Acknowledge this is a trial to enhance the attractiveness of catching
                                                                                              a free bus over driving a car. Noosa Parade is significantly
                                                                                              congested during peak periods with proposed bus queue jump
                                                                                              designed to ensure buses are not stuck in congestion. Consider
                                                                                              increasing the use of the bus queue jump after the two week period.

Political               Community oppose loss of parking.                                     Key stakeholders have endorsed.
                                                                                              All marketing material and signage will explain that it is a temporary
                                                                                              change during the peak holiday period (2 weeks).

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