Redfern street open to people and businesses

City of Sydney have a programme called Sydney Streets to open up the Streets to people. 
It's astonishing how pleasant a street can be when you remove the motor vehicles. The smells, the sounds, the opportunities created by repurposing the street space for people and businesses is evident through these street experiments.
BikeEast are running the Bike valet service that allows for people to leave their bicycles during the event and get some handy information about the cycleways. 

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There's a brilliant study in Australia by Alison Lee that show the economic benefits of using kerb side parking for parklets, and bicycle parking.  Imagine what the benefits is when you quadruple the space?!

Better Streets is a new coalition that is looking to improve streets and is seek better streetscapes to support businesses. 

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