Sunday Streets (or Ciclovia, Open Streets..) is a fun and healthy event that closes off high streets to motor vehicle traffic, and opens them up to cycling, walking, playing, shopping, dancing and pretty much any other recreational, or artistic activity.

1. Daniel Kogoy - Leichhardt Councillor

2. “is a ritual, a ceremony
reminding us that the
city belongs to people
more than cars”– Enrique Penalosa,
former Mayor Bogota

4. Everyone is doing it!

5. Ciclovia Bogota

9. Health Benefits

12. Community Benefits

13. Community Benefits
– Sunday Streets events build community,
cultural identify and social engagement.
– Provides people with opportunities for new
social interactions and to view their city from a
different perspective
– There is an enormous amount of interaction
between participants of all ages, incomes,
occupations, and backgrounds.

14. Environmental Benefits

15. Environmental Benefits
– Sunday Streets provides an environmental benefit by
temporarily removing cars from the road. The more
times the event is held, the greater the environmental
benefit
– Most open streets programs directly encourage
residents to replace car usage with walking, cycling
and public transport use.
– It is common for local environmental organisations to
participate in the event. Their taking part helps raise
awareness in the community about the connections
between improving the natural and built environment,
the local economy, and public health.

16. Using Ciclovia to Plan Your Streets

17. Rise of Sunday Streets

18. Where are we now?
• Motions of support
– Leichhardt Council, Marrickville Council, City of
Sydney, Woollahra Council, Randwick Council,
Southern Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils
(SSROC)
• Successful 2014 pilot event – Marrickville
• City of Sydney identified $60,000 cost per event for 12
event Sunday Streets programme
• SSROC recommended event on Marrickville –
Leichhardt route
• Event endorsement in NSW Transport policy “Sydney’s
Walking Future”
• Included in Leichhardt Council Employment and
Economic Development Plan

20. Sydney’s Walking Future
Streets For People p12
“Streets for People” initiative. Temporarily
closing one or more streets in a local
centre on Sundays or during holiday
seasons can create safe spaces for
people to walk and participate in
community events.”

21. Sunday Streets in Sydney
Successful Marrickville Road Pilot Event

22. Sunday Streets in Sydney
Successful Marrickville Road Pilot Event

23. Successful Marrickville Road Pilot Event
Sunday Streets in Sydney

24. Barriers

25. Barriers

26. Barriers
Sydney Resting on its laurels?

27. Opportunity
• Beat Sydney! Host the first real Sunday
Streets in Australia!
• Take Sunday Streets back to your
community
• Establish a community group
• Ask your local councillors, mayors and
MPs to support & fund the event

29. Pedal Brisbane – Sunday 13/09/2015
A great start!

30. It can be done on a
large scale – and fast!

31. “In New York City, [former] Transportation
Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan flew to
Colombia on a Friday, came to the Open
Street on Sunday, flew home that night and
the next day announced they were going to do
it in New York City. A few months later it was
on Park Avenue.” – Gil Penalosa, 8-80 Cities

33. Further Information
• http://OpenStreetsProject.org/
• http://www.streetfilms.org/tag/ciclovia/
• https://www.facebook.com/SundayStreets
Sydney
• https://www.facebook.com/OpenStreetsPr
oject

34. Let’s get started
facebook.com/SundayStreetsSydney
@DanielKogoy
dkogoy@lmc.nsw.gov.au