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“Tackling the transport (and access) issue”
Report of ‘virtual’ Transport Working GroupACTION PLAN
Peter Bungard
Executive Director
Gloucestershire County Council
Dec 2004
Action plan dilemma:
What’s the brief?Just the bits about new
partnership action– a rather strange
collection of odds and ends
What’s the brief?Just the bits about new
partnership action– a rather strange
collection of odds and ends
Or the whole agenda of “Transport in
Gloucestershire”– the community would
only engage in this
Or the whole agenda of “Transport in
Gloucestershire”– the community would
only engage in this
5 buttons:
Nothingto do
with us!
WeEndorse?
Supportaction of
onepartner
Jointpartneraction
Advocacy
Gloucestershire
connected:
Supportaction of
onepartner
Supportaction of
onepartner
Action:To secure a new “InterCity” station for Gloucestershire:“Gloucestershire Parkway”
= GCC lead, but lacks development funding. Private sector will pay for build
Action:To secure a new “InterCity” station for Gloucestershire:“Gloucestershire Parkway”
= GCC lead, but lacks development funding. Private sector will pay for build
Action:Lobby for a solution to safety and congestion problems onA417 Nettleton to Brockworth Bypass.
Needs community united behind a solution
Action:Lobby for a solution to safety and congestion problems onA417 Nettleton to Brockworth Bypass.
Needs community united behind a solution
WeEndorse?
WeEndorse?
Connected internally:
Action:• Complete Gloucester SW Bypass – 2 year target
• Beware A40 - Improve access to Forest of Dean by upgrading Gloucester Northern Bypass junctions – 5 year target
= GCC, but both actions reliant on access to £££s
Action:• Complete Gloucester SW Bypass – 2 year target
• Beware A40 - Improve access to Forest of Dean by upgrading Gloucester Northern Bypass junctions – 5 year target
= GCC, but both actions reliant on access to £££s
Supportaction of
onepartner
Supportaction of
onepartner
Targets for busesAction:• 200,000 more bus journeys extra every year• Increase customer satisfaction• Double Park-&-Ride users over 10 yrs from 2000 base• Investigate a targetted Free Bus Day
But what factors will encourage ‘real’ people to use buses – topic for Great Glos. Debate?
Action:• 200,000 more bus journeys extra every year• Increase customer satisfaction• Double Park-&-Ride users over 10 yrs from 2000 base• Investigate a targetted Free Bus Day
But what factors will encourage ‘real’ people to use buses – topic for Great Glos. Debate?
Supportaction of
onepartner
Supportaction of
onepartner
Transport Vision
Cheltenham and
Gloucester:
Transport Vision
Cheltenham and
Gloucester:Action:• Develop a Park-&-Ride network with ‘car quality’ buses – “Secure-by-Design” accreditation for parking?• Transform quality of bus network and transport info.
Provide = GCC lead, but reliant on Government funding Success = usage, requiring community behaviour change
Action:• Develop a Park-&-Ride network with ‘car quality’ buses – “Secure-by-Design” accreditation for parking?• Transform quality of bus network and transport info.
Provide = GCC lead, but reliant on Government funding Success = usage, requiring community behaviour change
Supportaction of
onepartner
Supportaction of
onepartner
OR Jointpartner action?
Many areour employees
OR Jointpartner action?
Many areour employees
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A safer Gloucestersh
ireAction:Halve serious and fatal casualties over 10 year period.• Police and GCC Safety Camera Partnership• New campaign to tackle 2003 60% increase in motor cycle casualties – GCC led. [45 times more likely to be killed on m/c than a car. Cotswold is worst.]• Glos. Constabulary leading nation ‘Bike Safe’ show, Cheltenham, April 2005• Minor rural safety projects• ‘Serious Organised Crime Prevention Bill’ strengthens ”Road Policing” role [Research proven link between reduction in road policing officers and Killed/serious injury collisions]• Existing initiatives: older driver support; ‘boy racers’; drink driving• Still need an initiative to make speeding socially unacceptable – a Great Glos. Debate issue? How shocking can a campaign be? What would you ‘defend’?
Action:Halve serious and fatal casualties over 10 year period.• Police and GCC Safety Camera Partnership• New campaign to tackle 2003 60% increase in motor cycle casualties – GCC led. [45 times more likely to be killed on m/c than a car. Cotswold is worst.]• Glos. Constabulary leading nation ‘Bike Safe’ show, Cheltenham, April 2005• Minor rural safety projects• ‘Serious Organised Crime Prevention Bill’ strengthens ”Road Policing” role [Research proven link between reduction in road policing officers and Killed/serious injury collisions]• Existing initiatives: older driver support; ‘boy racers’; drink driving• Still need an initiative to make speeding socially unacceptable – a Great Glos. Debate issue? How shocking can a campaign be? What would you ‘defend’?
Jointpartneraction
Jointpartneraction
“The state ofthe roads!”
What do we know?• Recent investment in ‘A’ roads
put them at 75 %ile in England• Other roads at 25 %ile in
England• Gov’t target to remove local
roads backlog by 2011• Our backlog is £130+M• 2005/06 will see highest ever
spend on road maintenance in Gloucestershire, but will barely touch backlog
• 54% public satisfaction with roads maintenance
Actions/Outcomes:(be realistic)• ‘A’ roads in top quartile in England• Other roads to above average condition• Right first time culture• Less congestion caused by roadworks• Increasing public satisfaction
= GCC led, but highly reliant on £££s
Actions/Outcomes:(be realistic)• ‘A’ roads in top quartile in England• Other roads to above average condition• Right first time culture• Less congestion caused by roadworks• Increasing public satisfaction
= GCC led, but highly reliant on £££s
Supportaction of
onepartner
Supportaction of
onepartner
Assisting mobility and
social inclusion
Action:• Community Transport/Dial-a-Ride real time booking and extend role from mobility to accessibility for all• Increase capacity in rural areas = Taxi-Link fleet and fully accessible minibuses (extend ‘Shuttle’ concept) £116K to Rural Transport Partnership. New fleet also picking up public service routes and access to employment role• Stroud district Night-bus initiative (CDRP), Cheltenham and Gloucester – can we replicate elsewhere?• Community/Rural Transport conference by GRCC on 4 Feb 05• Consider cost of bringing forward DDA 2016 target for fully accessible buses – estimated at 30% today• All major public sector agencies are well advanced on DDA for public access buildings• New initiative planned of local accessibility planning audits
Action:• Community Transport/Dial-a-Ride real time booking and extend role from mobility to accessibility for all• Increase capacity in rural areas = Taxi-Link fleet and fully accessible minibuses (extend ‘Shuttle’ concept) £116K to Rural Transport Partnership. New fleet also picking up public service routes and access to employment role• Stroud district Night-bus initiative (CDRP), Cheltenham and Gloucester – can we replicate elsewhere?• Community/Rural Transport conference by GRCC on 4 Feb 05• Consider cost of bringing forward DDA 2016 target for fully accessible buses – estimated at 30% today• All major public sector agencies are well advanced on DDA for public access buildings• New initiative planned of local accessibility planning audits
Jointpartneraction
Jointpartneraction
Access tohealth-care
The big question: who is responsibility for access to health care? Cost, booking, provision.
• GCC support 50,000 journeys per year: equates to 50% of all community transport journeys
• Ambulance service role
• PCT role
• Hospital trust role
• Voluntary sector – hospital car clubs
• The surgery
• The patient
Action:• We need a Health Transport group• £600K project proposal to roll out South Cotswold model to whole county – money not secure yet (Future Builders grant), and questions outstanding• Buses to Gloucester Royal = extend Waterwells P&R (15 mins service)• Replicate Newent model of surgery/dial-a-ride link-up• PCTs extending services available locally – community hospital, ‘Primary Care Settings’, and GP surgeries• PCT Travel Plans in development (Hospitals Trust plans in place)
Action:• We need a Health Transport group• £600K project proposal to roll out South Cotswold model to whole county – money not secure yet (Future Builders grant), and questions outstanding• Buses to Gloucester Royal = extend Waterwells P&R (15 mins service)• Replicate Newent model of surgery/dial-a-ride link-up• PCTs extending services available locally – community hospital, ‘Primary Care Settings’, and GP surgeries• PCT Travel Plans in development (Hospitals Trust plans in place)
Jointpartneraction
Jointpartneraction
Access to Education
I’ve taken the course that I could reach, not the one for my career
ambitions
I’ve taken the course that I could reach, not the one for my career
ambitions
Action:Mapping exercise by Glos. Learning PartnershipCurrent ongoing work of 16-19 Education Transport Partnership:• Jump2Ed• Info points in schools• Travel training• Some ideas to replicate for ‘lifelong learning’AVOID DUPLICATION FOR NOW
Role of Community Transport, Taxi-Link and Glos Minibus Scheme in improving access to education?
Action:Mapping exercise by Glos. Learning PartnershipCurrent ongoing work of 16-19 Education Transport Partnership:• Jump2Ed• Info points in schools• Travel training• Some ideas to replicate for ‘lifelong learning’AVOID DUPLICATION FOR NOW
Role of Community Transport, Taxi-Link and Glos Minibus Scheme in improving access to education?
Jointpartneraction
Jointpartneraction
“Accessibility
Planning” – what is it?
Action:• To produce an ‘Accessibility Strategy’ for Gloucestershire by July 2005, developed with partner agencies and endorsed by GSP [Statutory requirement on GCC.] Propose to use Transport Group for this task.
• To produce local ‘Accessibility Plans’ for all communities by July 2006 – huge task, but should start to capture all the analysis in Parish Plans, MAIDeN, etc. [Needs a ‘Common Tool’ a.s.a.p.] The potential of Neighbourhood debates on key transport issues: speed humps; safe routes to school; etc
Action:• To produce an ‘Accessibility Strategy’ for Gloucestershire by July 2005, developed with partner agencies and endorsed by GSP [Statutory requirement on GCC.] Propose to use Transport Group for this task.
• To produce local ‘Accessibility Plans’ for all communities by July 2006 – huge task, but should start to capture all the analysis in Parish Plans, MAIDeN, etc. [Needs a ‘Common Tool’ a.s.a.p.] The potential of Neighbourhood debates on key transport issues: speed humps; safe routes to school; etc
KeyServices
KeyServices
TransportTransportMe, you,
etc
Me, you,etc
Centralisation Centralisation
Reduce needto travel
Reduce needto travel
Jointpartneraction
Jointpartneraction
Employment, Education,Health, Leisure
Employment, Education,Health, Leisure
Knowledge & evidence of need:long way to service, poor transport,
difficult road to cross,bus misses surgery times,
Knowledge & evidence of need:long way to service, poor transport,
difficult road to cross,bus misses surgery times,
Origins: Social Exclusion Unit“Making Connections” report
Origins: Social Exclusion Unit“Making Connections” report
Sharing vehicles
Action:• Increase use of Glos. Minibus Scheme – double usage every 6 months until April 2006 – transfer to community enterprise• Increase the number of car clubs in County – just Stroud at present• Police willing to increase partnership role of mobile police stations, if related to core business
= multi partner
Action:• Increase use of Glos. Minibus Scheme – double usage every 6 months until April 2006 – transfer to community enterprise• Increase the number of car clubs in County – just Stroud at present• Police willing to increase partnership role of mobile police stations, if related to core business
= multi partner
Jointpartneraction
Jointpartneraction
Fear of crime: public
transport, walking, car
crime
Action:• Current CDRP work• Improve lighting at bus stops• Install Help points at major bus stops• Develop more door to door transport solutions, e.g. Taxi-Link• More usage = more security• More CCTV on buses – trials planned with school bus behavior problems?• Special late night services• Car crime campaigns – critical to vibrant night-time economy• “Street scene” improvements, mainly by district councils
Action:• Current CDRP work• Improve lighting at bus stops• Install Help points at major bus stops• Develop more door to door transport solutions, e.g. Taxi-Link• More usage = more security• More CCTV on buses – trials planned with school bus behavior problems?• Special late night services• Car crime campaigns – critical to vibrant night-time economy• “Street scene” improvements, mainly by district councils
• At bus stops… poor street lighting• Safety on buses at night• Drug problems at interchanges … limited police presence• Vandalism and graffiti affect people’s confidence• Car crime
Statistically public transport is safe, butperceptions count.
Jointpartneraction
Jointpartneraction
Citizenship issuesA declining volunteer
base, but a future based on community transport!
A declining volunteer base, but a future based on community transport!
Volunteering in transport started with hospital
cars – but now journeys are too long
Volunteering in transport started with hospital
cars – but now journeys are too long
Misbehaviour on buses; vandalism
Misbehaviour on buses; vandalism
Issues (not yet actions):• Volunteer recruitment/retention strategy developing• Pooling of volunteers needed• Need to recruit from new areas
– younger people• Convince employers of the benefits of staff engagement – offer training• Behaviour issues – CCTV on buses: trial planned• Travel training project in November• Driving attitude – not that bad in Gloucestershire• New Traffic Management Act more powers to control poor roadworks
Issues (not yet actions):• Volunteer recruitment/retention strategy developing• Pooling of volunteers needed• Need to recruit from new areas
– younger people• Convince employers of the benefits of staff engagement – offer training• Behaviour issues – CCTV on buses: trial planned• Travel training project in November• Driving attitude – not that bad in Gloucestershire• New Traffic Management Act more powers to control poor roadworks
Driving attitude, road rage and flaunting traffic
laws
Driving attitude, road rage and flaunting traffic
laws
• Pilots of nightclub buses for Gloucester, Cheltenham and Stroud• Add a responsibility to venues to tackle end of night transport issues and the consequences of alcohol related disorder
• Pilots of nightclub buses for Gloucester, Cheltenham and Stroud• Add a responsibility to venues to tackle end of night transport issues and the consequences of alcohol related disorder
Lack of evening and Sunday bus
services
• Improved information about existing services• Think community based solutions through partnerships: car schemes, minibuses, taxis, even mopeds• Government initiative of “kick start” for evening and Sundays• Extend Jump Start to urban areas
• Improved information about existing services• Think community based solutions through partnerships: car schemes, minibuses, taxis, even mopeds• Government initiative of “kick start” for evening and Sundays• Extend Jump Start to urban areas
Declining bus
use in Stroud!
• Ongoing debate with bus companies• Some recent growth• A bus quality partnership?• Multi-agency engagement to sell the potential• Review the shape of the network
• Ongoing debate with bus companies• Some recent growth• A bus quality partnership?• Multi-agency engagement to sell the potential• Review the shape of the network
Not yetdeveloped further
Night-timeEconomy
CONGESTION
Traffic continues to grow …. Car occupancy is falling
Traffic continues to grow …. Car occupancy is falling
Kids no longer walk to school – major traffic
growth of last 20 years
Kids no longer walk to school – major traffic
growth of last 20 years
Health … walking and cycling … obesity
Health … walking and cycling … obesity
Health … air pollution … congestion … asthma
Health … air pollution … congestion … asthma
It will get worse … road building out of fashion … but economy will grow …
18,000 houses in Gloucester and Cheltenham area in next 12 years
It will get worse … road building out of fashion … but economy will grow …
18,000 houses in Gloucester and Cheltenham area in next 12 years
Action:• Have the Partnership debate!
• Too big an issue to cover in initial GSP debate - if every partner/major employer takes ownership, it could make a real difference
• New legislation: Traffic Management Act 2004 – mainly relates to congestion
Action:• Have the Partnership debate!
• Too big an issue to cover in initial GSP debate - if every partner/major employer takes ownership, it could make a real difference
• New legislation: Traffic Management Act 2004 – mainly relates to congestion
Jointpartneraction
Jointpartneraction
What have we missed?
Cycling actionsand targets
Cycling actionsand targets
WalkingWalking
Your travel plansYour travel plans
…and the benefitsof joining-up major
employer plans
…and the benefitsof joining-up major
employer plans
Future GSP engagement
:
Transport Task GroupTransport Task Group
Occasional singleissue debates
Occasional singleissue debates
As individualbodies and employers
As individualbodies and employers
Additional points made
at GSP meeting
• Safety – refer to tri-service work with young people• More emphasis on service delivery to where the people are –
re-establishing all types of local service provision• Compatibility with other strategies• Propose Transport Consequence Assessments of major
decisions by GSP partners, including physical development and major organisational change
• How might transport changes be paid for• 3 types of actions:
o blue sky objectives or macro-trendso work in progress, but we don’t yet know answerso issues that will hit us in 2005 and we need to manage