Published on Thursday, 10 September 2026 at 9:10:00 AM
Spring is here and it is lovely to see more people out and about in our parks and town centres.
We are now working to ensure our streets are free of weeds, leaves and branches that have surfaced from the recent wet winter along with snippets of sunshine.
We’ll be rolling out a street cleaning program to remove weeds on footpaths and kerb lines, sweep natural debris from roads and bike lanes, and clear out drains.
Your safety is our priority and we want to make sure you can smoothly walk and cycle around Vincent.
Keep reading to find out more about what we’re doing to clean up your neighbourhood, our plans for our transport network and how we will make Vincent more accessible for all.
After an exceptionally wet winter, along with periods of sunshine, we’ve seen more weeds growing on roads, kerbs and footpaths. We will commence the mowing of main road verges in the coming weeks.
To ensure our town centres are ready for more foot traffic and activation in summer, we will be launching a street cleaning program in October.
This will include deep cleaning of the town centres, street sweeping to remove debris and leaf litter from roads and increased graffiti removals.
Some of our bike lanes have also been hit hard by heavy rain, with weeds, sand and debris causing difficulties for cyclists and e-scooter riders.
We’re doing everything we can to clear up the most-affected lanes whilst also complying with traffic management controls each time we do cleaning.
Our drains are also impacted by the winter weather. The drainage truck has been out and about to ensure drains are clean and do not pose flood risks.
A key goal of ours is to be an accessible city, with safe and accessible neighbourhoods for all including people with mobility needs, cyclists, drivers and public transport users.
We are making a deliberate shift away from a reactive street-by-street approach to traffic and transport planning to a broader and more strategic precinct-wide focus.
This approach helps us to plan beyond the current road network and consider how it will be expected to perform in the future.
A key example of this is our recent Precinct Transport and Road Safety community consultation, which focused on proposed treatments in Highgate, Mt Lawley and North Perth.
What we heard is that people want safer pedestrian crossings, slower speeds, less rat-running and improved cycling connections and access to local streets. We will now use this feedback to inform the way forward.
We’re also working on a new Integrated Transport Strategy to help shape how we plan and invest in roads, public transport connections, walking and cycling routes in the future. There will be an opportunity for community feedback on this next week.
A new Disability Access and Inclusion Plan is being developed. The new plan will reflect the needs and experiences of people with disability in our community. You can have your say at workshops and via Imagine Vincent this month.
Our newly-established Disability Access and Inclusion Advisory Group will oversee the process to ensure we implement meaningful and practical actions across programs, services and policies.
I encourage everyone to take this opportunity to help make Vincent a better, more accessible place for all residents.
There’s still plenty of time to take part in The Poppy Project. You can help us fill the suburbs with poppies this Remembrance Day.
Residents, schools, community groups and clubs can get involved by creating their own displays.
Whether it is a front yard, fence, gate, shared neighbourhood space or business, every poppy helps tell the story.
If you would like your poppies included in the City’s display, please drop them off to the Admin Building by 23 October.
Best wishes,
Mayor Alison Xamon
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