Walk hub

Providing you with information to help improve walking in Queensland

Welcome to the Walk Hub: Making walking better. You will find information that helps you to see if your streets could be improved for walking, ways to report a problem, suggest improvements, or take action to tackle a bigger problem. There are links to existing information and resources for getting support. These tools and resources will help to improve walking in your streets, neighbourhoods, and communities across Queensland.

The Walk Hub: Making Walking Better has been made possible with Queensland Government funding.

Get Started Walking

Do you walk to reach a specific destination, for health or wellbeing, for recreation, or to connect with friends?

Queensland Walks has created Walk Hub Making Walking Better to provide you with the information to help you walk more every day, and help improve walking conditions in Queensland.

Improve Walking in your Community

Are there places where you walk that could be improved?

Help your community to make walking better in Queensland in urban, rural, remote environments.

Your involvement makes a difference.

Find Events, Activities & Programs

There are many walking and running groups in Queensland that encourage and coordinate people to walk (and run) together and alone, for health and recreation.

Find one that suits you.

Improving conditions

Notice a problem with the footpath? Don’t walk past!

Reporting issues and requesting maintenance helps improve walkability in your neighbourhood.

Practical Resources

Walk My Street
Checklist

How walkable is your street? Use Queensland Walks walkability checklist tool

Walking advocacy
groups

Groups from around the world that advocate for walking and public space.

Walking
Stories

Great examples of walking in Queensland, and improving the conditions for walking

Queensland Walking Strategy 2019–2029

Queensland Walking Strategy 2019–2029 (PDF, 2.8 MB): sets the direction to make walking an easy choice for everyone, every day over the next 10 years.

Action Plan for Walking 2019–2021

Action Plan for Walking 2019–2021 (PDF, 1.56 MB): lists the practical actions we need to do right now to grow walking, to be updated every 2 years.

Walking in Queensland Report 2019

Walking in Queensland Report 2019 (PDF, 2.62 MB): provides a snapshot of current levels of walking in Queensland and baseline measures for monitoring our progress towards achieving the vision to ‘make walking an easy choice for everyone, every day’.

Road safety, street and urban planning and walkability

Walking programs

Queensland Walks works closely with the following walking programs. Find out more, and register for free.

10,000 Steps

Heart Foundation Walking

Walk-friendly Queensland communities, walkability and liveable places

Queensland Walks encourages more walk-friendly places and spaces.

Providing facilities for pedestrians
Space for Health
Healthy Active by Design
Heart Foundation’s Community Walkability Checklist
Shady Lanes Project
Cool and Covered: In addition to encouraging walking and cycling, providing well designed and effective shade on these facilities will encourage greater usage of facilities, providing both heat control and protection from ultraviolet radiation. In Queensland’s subtropical climate, the need for shade is paramount for comfort and to reduce the risk of sunburn. The recent Chief Health Officer’s report notes that 56% of Queensland adults and 47% of children had experienced sunburn (QH, 2018) , leading to increased risk of skin cancer in later life and contributing to Queensland’s world leading skin cancer incidence. Furthermore, reflection of ultraviolet radiation from light coloured concrete surfaces also increases the scattered ultraviolet radiation exposure. Guidelines on effective shade for public spaces can be obtained through QUT’s Cool and Covered program
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