The Transport Canberra and City Services Directorate has launched a new website and virtual engagement room providing a hub for information and consultation on the light rail to Woden.
Minister for Transport, Chris Steel said the Directorate’s new website and engagement room would make it easy for people to follow the latest project developments and have a say on a key stage of the city’s future light rail network.
“Light rail to Woden is Canberra’s biggest ever infrastructure build, creating over 6,000 jobs and helping to shape our city’s transport future,” Mr Steel said.
“So we want to involve Canberrans in an ongoing conversation about how we deliver it,” he said.
“We will be consulting on a wide range of topics as the project takes shape – including issues like the environmental, community and heritage impacts; detailed design elements like stops and intersections; and the community’s priorities for creating vibrant new places and spaces along the route.”
Mr Steel said that in addition to consultation, Canberrans could visit the site to find out more about all aspects of the project and its delivery milestones.
The Minister said new visualisations on the website would help Canberrans gain an understanding of how the first section of the project would look, and how it would interact with cars, buses, cyclists and pedestrians.
“The new virtual engagement tool will support face-to-face engagement activities which are also underway with businesses and residents in the city precinct,” he said.
“This information will form part of various evaluations, environmental assessments and other project documentation being prepared ahead of the submission of planning and works approvals later this year,” Mr Steel said.
The Directorate’s new website and virtual engagement room can be accessed at this PS News link.
