Stevens Street Traffic Calming and Wildlife-Friendly Enhancements

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Project Update: October 2025

Landscaping works to commence soon:

The City of Fremantle has allocated funding in the 2025/26 budget to deliver the landscaping component of this project. The works aim to enhance bobtail habitat and create ecological pathways along the northern verge of Stevens Street, adjacent to Booyeembara Park.

The landscape works will include site preparation and mulching, as well as the installation of habitat logs and limestone boulders. Tubestock planting will follow in winter 2026 to coincide with optimal planting conditions. Wildlife kerbs will be installed as part of the traffic calming civil works, with each landscape node to align with the proposed traffic calming location.

Timing of landscaping works:

  • The landscape works will run from Monday 27 October – Friday 31 October, and Monday 3 November - Wednesday 5 November 2025.
  • Traffic management will be in place on Stevens Street during these works.

Traffic Calming Civil Works Update:

The City has submitted the proposed traffic calming design to Main Roads for review and feedback. Pending approval, the implementation of the traffic calming measures, including kerbing modifications, is anticipated to commence in late FY25/26. This timeline reflects the necessary coordination and approvals required before construction can begin.

The City of Fremantle is implementing new traffic-calming measures and wildlife-friendly enhancements on Stevens Street, White Gum Valley and we'd love your input.

Stevens Street is a road that connects the White Gum Valley neighbourhood to Booyeembara Park, Sullivan Hall, golf courses and other amenities. To enhance safety for both people and wildlife, as well as to promote active transportation, it is essential to implement traffic calming measures to this increasingly busy local street.

Currently, Stevens Street features a 6-meter-wide verge with barrier curbs along its length. While these kerbs help manage vehicle movement, they also pose a significant obstacle for wildlife attempting to cross from the park to the street, often leaving them stranded. Moreover, the straight stretch of Stevens Street encourages some vehicles to exceed the speed limit, creating an unwelcoming environment for pedestrians and cyclists, as well as posing a safety risk to those trying to access local community assets.

City officers from the Place and Projects and Infrastructure teams have developed a concept proposal that combines traffic calming modifications to Stevens Street intersections and introduces segments of wildlife friendly curbing. Implementing these new traffic engineering measures to slow vehicles will enhance safety on Stevens Street, whilst wildlife-friendly kerbs will improve connectivity for target species such as bobtails.

If you live, play or travel through the Stevens Street area, we want your feedback on the road modifications and wildlife enhancements that are being considered.

To view the concept plans for Stevens Street and learn more about the proposed wildlife-friendly enhancements, please consult the Key Documents section below.

We are asking the public to:

  • Share local knowledge and insight on road and pedestrian activity on Stevens Street.
  • Review the Key Documents and Frequently Asked Questions.
  • Submit feedback on proposed intersection treatments and wildlife-friendly enhancements for Stevens Street via the Survey.
  • Provide a written submission or request a 1:1 meeting with a City Officer.

Join our Stevens Street neighbourhood drop-in session at the following date and time:

  • When: April 17, 2025
  • Where: Sullivan Hall, White Gum Valley
  • Time: 6:00pm

City Officers aim to:

  • Provide clear information to residents within the project area, timeline and any updates regarding scheduled works.
  • Keep you informed, listen to and acknowledge concerns and provide feedback on how public input influenced the project.
  • Inform the public on how to make future requests and work with the City of Fremantle to increase neighbourhood road safety.

How can you make your submission?
Submissions can be submitted online via the submission form below, or:

A hard copy of the survey can be sent or picked up upon request by emailing the Community Engagement team here: communityengagement@fremantle.wa.gov.au.

Submissions close on 30 April, 2025.

Project Update: October 2025

Landscaping works to commence soon:

The City of Fremantle has allocated funding in the 2025/26 budget to deliver the landscaping component of this project. The works aim to enhance bobtail habitat and create ecological pathways along the northern verge of Stevens Street, adjacent to Booyeembara Park.

The landscape works will include site preparation and mulching, as well as the installation of habitat logs and limestone boulders. Tubestock planting will follow in winter 2026 to coincide with optimal planting conditions. Wildlife kerbs will be installed as part of the traffic calming civil works, with each landscape node to align with the proposed traffic calming location.

Timing of landscaping works:

  • The landscape works will run from Monday 27 October – Friday 31 October, and Monday 3 November - Wednesday 5 November 2025.
  • Traffic management will be in place on Stevens Street during these works.

Traffic Calming Civil Works Update:

The City has submitted the proposed traffic calming design to Main Roads for review and feedback. Pending approval, the implementation of the traffic calming measures, including kerbing modifications, is anticipated to commence in late FY25/26. This timeline reflects the necessary coordination and approvals required before construction can begin.

The City of Fremantle is implementing new traffic-calming measures and wildlife-friendly enhancements on Stevens Street, White Gum Valley and we'd love your input.

Stevens Street is a road that connects the White Gum Valley neighbourhood to Booyeembara Park, Sullivan Hall, golf courses and other amenities. To enhance safety for both people and wildlife, as well as to promote active transportation, it is essential to implement traffic calming measures to this increasingly busy local street.

Currently, Stevens Street features a 6-meter-wide verge with barrier curbs along its length. While these kerbs help manage vehicle movement, they also pose a significant obstacle for wildlife attempting to cross from the park to the street, often leaving them stranded. Moreover, the straight stretch of Stevens Street encourages some vehicles to exceed the speed limit, creating an unwelcoming environment for pedestrians and cyclists, as well as posing a safety risk to those trying to access local community assets.

City officers from the Place and Projects and Infrastructure teams have developed a concept proposal that combines traffic calming modifications to Stevens Street intersections and introduces segments of wildlife friendly curbing. Implementing these new traffic engineering measures to slow vehicles will enhance safety on Stevens Street, whilst wildlife-friendly kerbs will improve connectivity for target species such as bobtails.

If you live, play or travel through the Stevens Street area, we want your feedback on the road modifications and wildlife enhancements that are being considered.

To view the concept plans for Stevens Street and learn more about the proposed wildlife-friendly enhancements, please consult the Key Documents section below.

We are asking the public to:

  • Share local knowledge and insight on road and pedestrian activity on Stevens Street.
  • Review the Key Documents and Frequently Asked Questions.
  • Submit feedback on proposed intersection treatments and wildlife-friendly enhancements for Stevens Street via the Survey.
  • Provide a written submission or request a 1:1 meeting with a City Officer.

Join our Stevens Street neighbourhood drop-in session at the following date and time:

  • When: April 17, 2025
  • Where: Sullivan Hall, White Gum Valley
  • Time: 6:00pm

City Officers aim to:

  • Provide clear information to residents within the project area, timeline and any updates regarding scheduled works.
  • Keep you informed, listen to and acknowledge concerns and provide feedback on how public input influenced the project.
  • Inform the public on how to make future requests and work with the City of Fremantle to increase neighbourhood road safety.

How can you make your submission?
Submissions can be submitted online via the submission form below, or:

A hard copy of the survey can be sent or picked up upon request by emailing the Community Engagement team here: communityengagement@fremantle.wa.gov.au.

Submissions close on 30 April, 2025.

  • Engagement Report: Stevens Street Intersections

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    The engagement report for this project is now ready. Read the report to see who we reached and what we heard. Community feedback directly influenced how the proposed treatments and enhancements will be implemented.

    Read the engagement report here.

    Here's what's happening next:

    • Engineers will now proceed with the Stevens Streets works as presented.
    • Installation is anticipated in the 2025/2026 financial year -- residents will be notified of works in advance.

  • Frequently Asked Questions

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    Why is the City embarking on this project? Why are we focusing on this locations? Check out our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for more information.

    Read the FAQ here.

  • Traffic Calming: Concept Drawings

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    The straight stretch of Stevens Street encourages some vehicles to exceed the speed limit, creating an unwelcoming environment for pedestrians and posing a safety risk to pedestrians, cyclists and children. Based on a recognised design standard, "Modified T-Intersections" are the treatment type being proposed to calm traffic on Stevens Street and will be placed at the "T" intersections between Montreal St and Carrington St.

    At a T-junction, "slow points" are traffic calming measures that use horizontal deflections (like chicane-like structures or kerb blisters) to narrow the carriageway and force drivers to slow down. These slow points reduce speeds and can also discourage through traffic. The proposed concept for Stevens Street minimises required signage and maintains the familiar traffic movements. The semi-mountable median islands both narrow the road, create deflection and provide separation of lanes resulting in slower speeds, greater protection and better compliance with lane keeping at each intersection.

    The City of Fremantle has previously employed the use of modified T-intersections as a treatment, with a positive reduction in driver speeds. To view an existing example of the treatment proposed, please visit the intersection of Annie St and Edmonson St in Beaconsfield.

    Click here to view the Stevens Street concept plans: Montreal St to Yalgoo Avenue.

    Click here to view the Stevens Street concept plans: Wongan Avenue to Carrington Street.

  • Explainer: Wildlife-Friendly Enhancements

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    The Stevens Street length of road which runs parallel to Booyeembara Park has a six metre wide verge with native street trees. This is an opportunity to create wildlife habitat along the verge adjacent to the traffic calming nodes, to provide a greater area of wildlife foraging through the neighbourhood. The Stevens Street Green Links verges are just under 2km from the Marine Terrace Green Links planting area for 2025, which will become a future connection from Esplanade Park to Booyeembara Park.

    Click here to view the Stevens Street Bobtail Crossing and Green Linkages Explainer.

    Click here to read more about the Greening Fremantle: Strategy (2020)

  • Related Project: Safe and Functional Streets

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    Between November 2023 to February 2024 the City of Fremantle conducted a community engagement initiative for two key infrastructure policies - road safety and traffic calming - united under the campaign theme "Safe & Functional Streets". The Safe and Functional Streets Engagement Report, a culmination of vital contributions from community discussions and feedback, was unanimously approved at the Ordinary Council Meeting on July 24, 2024.

    The Stevens Street project falls within the scope and direction of the City’s "Safe & Functional Streets” initiative, aiming to:

    • Enhance road safety for all road users, including pedestrians and cyclists.
    • Reduce vehicle speeds to make streets safer and more attractive.
    • Improve the functionality of streets, which can include elements like efficient traffic flow and better accessibility for residents and businesses.

    Click here to visit the Safe and Functional Streets Project Page

  • Related: Our Strategic Community Plan

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    The Stevens Street project aims to implement solutions with strategic, long-term thinking and guidance that speaks to the City of Fremantle’s 2024-2034 Strategic Community Plan.

    The City's 2024-2034 Strategic Community Plan is the City’s most significant guiding document and establishes the community’s long-term aspirations and vision for Fremantle’s future. The Plan drives the City’s planning, budgeting, resource allocation and service delivery over the next decade, and was developed in direct collaboration with people who live, work, and play in Fremantle. This project meets a number of key focus areas set out by the community - most importantly that Fremantle is a Liveable City that fosters "socially connected neighbourhoods" and "is easy and safe for pedestrians and cyclists to move within neighbourhoods and between key destinations and precincts."

    Read the Strategic Community Plan here.


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