Sydney is a place of big ideas, of bold visions and schemes for all sorts of ways to make life better for its citizens and more inviting for visitors.

But the problem the city has had is in giving life to those ideas. For too many years Sydney has been bereft of improvement, and the people who live in it have had to make do with infrastructure and amenities installed many decades ago, and which no longer fit the needs of the population.

Bicycle, bicycle, Sydney wants to ride its bicycle. Photo: Sydney Cycleways

Sydney's CBD is filling up. It needs a new train line through it. The roads cannot accommodate more buses in the busy morning and afternoon. Many of us know what it is like to sit in a taxi on Market Street, watching life pass by and the meter tick up the cost, in dollars and in time wasted.

No government is going to be able to overhaul the way the city works any time soon. But Gladys Berejiklian and Duncan Gay's City Centre Access Strategy, we think, is at least a start, even if it has been too long delayed.