What is K-Savers?
The K-Savers Community Workshops has been designed by volunteers from Marrickville Transport Action Group (MTAG) Incorporated, as a Citizens for Sustainability project which is funded by Marrickville Council.
MTAG believes that all residents deserve a healthy, accessible and safe community but that the number of vehicles on our roads is a barrier to achieving this. The K-Savers Community Workshop project is part of MTAG’s efforts to educate and empower the community to respond to the problems posed by congestion, air and noise pollution, and the impact of busy roads on community networks.
How Does it Work?
K-Savers brings members of the community together in a workshop aimed at identifying how, why and where the problems of congestion, air and noise pollution are affecting our enjoyment of our homes and neighbourhoods. We have produced a series of fact sheets that act as a guide to changing our ways, starting with our own travel pattern and then moving on to changing streets and roads into neighbourhoods and true communities.
Want to get involved?
Contact Marrickville Transport Action Group if you want to run a workshop in your street. We will bring the workshop facilitators and materials if you provide the place and the participants. See our contact page for details. Marrickville Council has also decided to run their own version of our workshop - look out for it or give them a call.
Workshop Materials (original - May 2007)
(Most of these are large files and are intended to be printed as double sided.)
Workshop Outline (general)
Workshop Outline (specific issue) - COMING SOON
Workshop 'Roadmap' poster
K-Savers Trip Tracker Diary
- K-Savers Trip Tracker Forms - p1 and p2
Fact sheets:
1. Saving Kilometres with K-Savers (PDF -p1 and p2)
Outlines what, why and how we should be saving our car trips, and how we can get by without them!
2. Good Times and Travelling Smart (PDF - p1 and p2)
Information about how much time and money you really spend on your transport, and how you can get a lot more quality time every day.
3. Transport, Shopping and Convenience (PDF - p1)
Have you wanted to spend less time in your car, but couldn't quite figure out how to do the shopping without it? Here are some tips!
4. DIY Traffic Reduction - Some More Ideas (PDF - p1 and p2)
More Ideas? Yes! The first three fact sheets helped to get at least one more person off the local roads - you! Now we can look at how others can see the light.
5. Local Area Traffic Management - LATM (PDF - p1 and p2)
Is your street a local rat run? Do others treat your neighbourhood as if it was a raceway? If you have ever thought that you'd like to do something about it, then this fact sheet will prepare you for engaging in official Local Area Traffic Management (LATM) with your council, the police and the RTA (or local equivalent). Sounds complex? It is! But this fact sheet should give you a head start.
6. Mental Speed Bumps (PDF - p1 and p2)
A mental speed bump is a non-physical way of slowing traffic. It will involve making your street into a place that creates curiosity and awareness in those passing through. Lots of opportunity for creativity and community reconnection.
7. Place Making - Turning Roads into Neighbourhoods (PDF - p1 and p2)
Do you live in a street? On a road? Or do you live in a neighbourhood? There is a difference and this difference is what will change the way that others treat the place that you live. It will even change the way you treat the place that you live.