MORNINGTON SHIRE COUNCIL, VIC. — Mornington Shire’s Integrated Transport Strategy – Transport to 2040, is a long-term plan for a more connected, better serviced, safe and reliable transport network across the Peninsula, and it’s now open for residents’ comments.
The community provided feedback on the first stage of the plan in late 2024, helping shape this draft and its priorities.
The plan outlines how Council will work with the community and other levels of government to create a transport network that better connects people to jobs, education, services, recreation and each other.
The Mornington Peninsula has unique transport challenges given it’s made up of around 40 towns across a large geographic area, with approximately 70 per cent of the region sitting within the green wedge.
More than 80 per cent of trips around the Peninsula are made in private vehicles, reflecting our community’s reliance on cars.
As the local population grows and with approximately 8 million visitors coming to the Peninsula each year, improving access to transport, making it safer and more reliable, is essential for residents, workers and businesses.
The plan seeks to address gaps in the current transport network by:
- Improving connections to towns, employment and recreation, with one example being to identify a preferred position on the Southern Peninsula Freeway extension.
- Creating more opportunities for healthier, lower-impact ways to move around by identifying priority footpaths and bicycle routes across the Shire and proposing more shared walking and cycling paths.
- Making transport safer, more accessible and easier to use, including expanding traffic calming measures and road safety improvements across the Shire and investigating parking improvements in key locations like Sorrento.
- Planning for the future needs of our community, for example, by identifying preferred freight routes to support regional and port-related growth in the Western Port region.
The Mornington Peninsula Shire community is invited to review and comment on the updated draft Integrated Transport Strategy. Consultation is open until August 21, 2026.
Mayor Cr Stephen Batty said we must plan for the community’s future transport needs, ensuring residents, workers and visitors can easily access transport and efficiently get around the Peninsula.
“We want our transport network to be safe, easy to use, connected to other forms of transport and available where it is needed,” said Cr Batty.
“It’s also important that we plan freight corridors, align land use planning with long-term transport needs and prepare for emerging technologies.”
