2020 Your Move Awards

Lake Gwelup Primary School

• Lake Gwelup Primary has engaged students, parents and the board in its active transport push.
• Student surveys show increased active travel (12% shift, 46% mode share).
• Event days, incentives and an energetic student team (the Transport Troopers) have brought about increased active travel to the school as survey results show.

City of Fremantle

• Consistent effort to promote active transport makes Fremantle a winner.
• Active commuting by the City’s employees has increased 13%.
• The City holds Ride2Work breakfasts for staff, provides pool ebikes, is trialling scooters and upgraded bike parking.
• Community initiatives include Bike Month activities, a community survey about biking in pandemic and Bicycle User Group rides.

Mt Lawley Primary School Traffic Management Group

• Mt Lawley Primary School has the first wholly parent led Your Move school initiative.
• They developed their own traffic management plan from scratch and leveraged parents’ skills to run a series of engaging activities throughout the year, showing what parent support can do.

Eastern Metropolitan Regional Council

• The Share the Space campaign by EMRC is a positive initiative promoting mutual understanding for safe sharing of local paths.
• A variety of channels are being used to influence behaviour amongst path users.
• Their creative idea could have a widespread effect and be applied by others.

Julia Calvert, Winterfold Primary School

• Julia has taken a strategic approach to engage the school community. Your Move is embedded in the school’s sustainability plan.
• An active student team implements activities across the year including Constable Care and RAC incursions, counting bikes and scooters for maths lessons, walk and ride to school days and recognising staff who ride to school.
• Julia has brought about positive results in engagement and active travel by students and staff.

Warnbro Community High School Health and Wellbeing Team

• Warnbro Community High School’s student health and wellbeing team promotes active travel across the school through regular events including Wellbeing Wednesdays.
• Rewards are provided to active travellers. The student team also mapped routes to school for an access guide.
• Student leaders encourage walking, bike riding, scooting and public transport use amongst year 6 students in feeder primary schools – setting positive norms for getting to high school.

City of Albany Green Team

• The City’s Green Team has used the passion and talents of staff representatives across business areas to promote active transport in the community and workforce.
• The team has positively influenced council initiatives, community events and local schools.
• Members also role model active travel.
• The Albany team is a great example of what collective effort can do.

City of Busselton

• Cloisters Shared Path – Path activation included a school event with 70 students and circulating a map of route to families.
• The path experience will be enhanced through landscaping in partnership with the Water Corporation.

Shire of Kondinin

• Kondinin’s Hyden Shared Path project is a great example of what a small local government can achieve by working with its community.
• This path aligns with the town centre revitalisation efforts.
• The Shire consulted with impacted business owners to build support for the path and engaged the school in activating it. 
• The path links the main street with Wave Rock.

Town of Cambridge

• Dodd Street and Lake Monger Bicycle Path – The Town undertook good consultation for path project and held a great launch event with the local schools including Noongar story telling.
• It provides an east-west connection to Mitchell Freeway PSP.

City of Canning

• The City of Canning’s ‘Route 1 project’ links key local destinations, and involved local schools to encourage riding and walking.
• This 2km shared path also trialled a new asphalt technology which upcycles old concrete paths and has the smoothness of asphalt.
• The City also worked with PTA to have new bus shelters built on route and included mid-trip facilities (water fountains, seating, new playground equipment).