Draft Active Transport Strategy - Round 2

Published on 16 July 2025

Burnie City Council was successful in obtaining a $200,000 grant from the Tasmanian State Government through the Better Active Transport Program.

Through this, Burnie City Council has developed a draft Active Transport Strategy to make it easier for people to walk, wheel, or ride around our municipality by providing safe, connected, and accessible paths for people of all ages and abilities.

The draft Active Transport Strategy has been informed by technical reports, site assessments, and feedback from early community and stakeholder consultation. It outlines future walking, wheeling, and riding infrastructure, along with policy and behaviour change programs to encourage more people to choose active transport for everyday trips.

Map of proposed infrastructure across our municipality 

Community feedback for Round 2 is now closed. Thank you for taking the time to complete the survey. Your feedback is incredibly important to us and will help us towards making a better Burnie. 

We will now consolidate all the communities input, and create a final draft Strategy to be presented at an upcoming Council meeting. 

Draft Burnie Active Transport Strategy(PDF, 75MB) 

Draft Burnie Active Transport Strategy Summary Report(PDF, 3MB)

What is the Active Transport Strategy?

Councils Active Transport Strategy will provide a blueprint in guiding investment to make walking and cycling a more convenient choice for short to medium trips in and around Burnie.

We estimate that 80% of work trips under 5km are taken by car. While the car is the dominant mode of transport in Burnie, Council will be focused on creating a strategy in which more people are attracted to making short trips by foot and bicycle. 

Encouraging more people to walk and bike ride in Burnie

Walking and bike riding is the most sustainable form of transport, contributing to great places, cleaner local environments, healthier lifestyles, and providing economic benefits to local neighbourhoods.

By encouraging more people to choose walking or bike riding for everyday journeys, we will improve neighbourhoods and the environment, reduce car use and traffic congestion, support local businesses, and improve the general health of our communities.

What does the Active Transport Strategy address? 

Our strategy focuses on: 

• connected cycling network infrastructure across Burnie to enable more people to safely ride their bikes as part of their everyday travel
• active transport network planning to identify both small and large changes to enhance active transport opportunities
• designs to improve the safety and attractiveness of proposed active links
• promoting walking and cycling to encourage behaviour change across the municipality 
• facilitating children’s and young people’s independent mobility by improving safe walking and bike riding options for travel to and from school
• incorporating all ability access across the transport network for those with limited mobility.

Progress April 2025

The Institute of Sensible Transport has been engaged to develop an Active Transport Strategy for Burnie. Four of seven stages (inception, data review, stakeholder engagement round 1, and site assessment) have been completed, and work on the draft strategy is underway.