Future City: Making the CBD more walkable

This site was established during the early stages of the Future City campaign to build community understanding of the ideas behind the proposals. While these early stages of community consultation have now ended, this information continues to be available for research and reference purposes.

One of the main objectives of Future City is to make Orange’s CBD more walkable.

Orange City Council is looking at many ways to achieve this, including:

• reducing the speed limit in the CBD to 40km/h,
• introducing scramble crossings,
• nose-in parking and
• looking at the alternatives to roundabouts.

Council employed urban designers, SJB, to create ideas for Future City. They found the Orange CBD isn’t as user friendly for pedestrians as it could be.

The architects found safety was a concern for people as they moved around the inner city. They were worried particularly when trying to cross the road near roundabouts, by the speed of cars and driver behaviour.

That’s why part of the design is about slowing-down cars in the CBD, making it safer for pedestrians.

The quality of footpath lighting is already being improved.

The proposed changes would include a much wider median strip down the centre of the road, and nose-in parking on either side,

We'd like to hear from the Orange community about these proposals.

Please take the time to read the associated articles and then complete the survey.

Please have your say before December 2, 2020.