2020-07-07 Services & Organisation Committee Agenda

SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE AGENDA                                                                                                               7 JULY 2020


                                                   Key Indicators and                                                                                Year on Year
 Initiative        Initiative Summary                                                2019/2020 Data                  2018/2019 Data
                                                        Targets                                                                                      Assessment
Traffic       Traffic controllers to improve   No reported safety issues.         No safety issues               No safety issues               Met indicator
Control and   pedestrian safety, and                                                                                                              Bus travel time
Wayfinding
              Prioritise bus movements to                                         Bus travel time from           Bus travel time from            increase but queue
                                               Improve bus travel times            Noosa Junction to               Noosa Junction to               length decreased
              encourage Public Transport
                                               from Noosa Junction to              Hastings Street 7 -14           Hastings Street 8 -10           compared to 2017/18
              use over the congestion
                                               Hastings St bus stop.               minutes.                        minutes.                        when no traffic control
              causing private car.
                                                                                                                                                  Requires continual
              Wayfinding signage to direct                                                                                                         improvement process
              cars to Park & Ride locations                                                                                                        to optimise use of
              and encourage pedestrians                                                                                                            traffic control
              to use preferred crossings.
Parallel      Temporary conversion of          Improve traffic flow            Observations confirmed          Observations confirmed          Met indicator
Parking on    eight parallel car parks to                                      improved traffic flow without   improved traffic flow without
                                                                                                                                               Use of car parking bays
Hastings      remove reverse parallel                                          reversing vehicles.             reversing vehicles.
                                                                                                                                               as loading bays well
Street        parking manoeuvres during
                                                                                                               Car Park temporarily            received.
              peak that cause congestion.                                      Car Park temporarily
                                                                                                               converted to scooter &
                                                                               converted to loading bays
                                                                                                               bicycle parking
Hastings      Rideshare system for             Utilisation of 10 car parking   Limited use of Rideshare to     Limited use of Rideshare to     Yet to meet indicator.
Street        Hastings St employees            bays established for            date.                           date.
                                                                                                                                               Observations include that
Employee      established as a 12 month        Rideshare use.
                                                                                                                                               during peak period staff
Rideshare     trial
                                                                                                                                               used free buses and in off
App
                                                                                                                                               peak parking was
                                                                                                                                               available.
Noosa         Use of Lions Park grassed        Revenue target – $72,000        Actual revenue - $79,800.       Actual revenue - $133,520       Exceeded target revenue.
Heads         area as peak demand paid         Based on 150 cars/day &
                                                                               Average vehicles per day –                                      Operational impacts:
Lions Park    car parking to offset cost of    operational 24 out of 27
                                                                               166                                                              - Tree root protection
– Car Park    Go Noosa trials and raise        possible days                                                   Average vehicles per day -
                                                                                                                                                   – reduced car
              funds for Lions Club. Area                                       Operational 24 out of           257
                                                                                                                                                   parking area
              was reduced from previous                                        possible 27
                                                                                                               Operational 26 out of            - Burst water pipe -
              year of 250 spaces to 150
                                                                                                               possible 28                         reduced car parking
              due to tree protection and
                                                                                                                                                   area & days
              ensuring park access to
                                                                                                                                                - Wet weather days
              public.




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