Transport Planning and Coordination Act 1994

The object of this part is to enable the chief executive to encourage increased integration between land use and transport.

The way the object is to be achieved includes—

ensuring, as far as practicable, development does not have a significant adverse impact on any of the following—

existing or future public passenger transport;

existing or future public passenger transport infrastructure; and

ensuring development addresses any impacts on the development from environmental emissions generated by any of the following—

existing or future public passenger transport;

existing or future public passenger transport infrastructure; and

ensuring, as far as practicable, public passenger transport offers an attractive alternative to private transport in a way that reduces the overall economic, environmental and social costs of transport; and

promoting urban development that maximises the use of public passenger transport; and

increasing opportunities for people to access public passenger transport, including access by cycling and walking; and

ensuring, as far as practicable, the provision of public passenger transport infrastructure to support public passenger transport; and

ensuring development supports active transport; and

ensuring, as far as practicable, the provision of active transport infrastructure to support active transport.

In this section—

cycling;

walking;

cycling or walking to a place to access public passenger transport, or from a place after public passenger transport has been used.

a path or walkway for use by pedestrians;

a path, lane or other infrastructure for use by cyclists;

a device or facility designed and constructed for parking bicycles;

an end of trip facility.

showers, toilets or wash basins;

areas for changing clothes;

facilities used for grooming purposes, including, for example, mirrors, hair dryers, ironing equipment or outlets for hair dryers and other electrical equipment;

facilities for washing or drying clothes;

service for the provision of towels;

storage facilities for clothing or equipment;

drinking facilities;

services for obtaining equipment that may be used to maintain or repair bicycles, including, for example, air pumps, puncture repair kits, tyre levers and tyre tubes.