ian barrett's presentation for festival of the future city in bristol

Green Capital: Engaging people in creating an Active City

Ian Barrett

South West Regional Director, Sustrans

Vice Chair, Bristol Green Capital Partnership

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Following Copenhagen

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• MetroWest & Metrobus

• Cycling City

• Hydrogen ferry

• Grassroots Projects

• Congestion

• Air pollution

• Controversy

• Conflict

Early Discussions

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Raising Awareness & Creating Change

Raising Awareness

Developing A Shared Vision

Delivering with Communities

Five Stages of Behavioural Change

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• Vision and plan for transport in Bristol

• City centre placemaking

• Improving Local streets

• Communicating low carbon transport strategy

• Public engagement

Priorities for 2015

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Raising Awareness – Good Transport Plan

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Active City Research: Designed to Move: Active Citieswww.designedtomove.org

Raising Awareness – Active City Summit

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Active City Research: Designed to Move: Active Cities www.designedtomove.org

Raising Awareness – Active City Summit

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Publishing a‘Copenhagen style’

Bike Account as a

Bike Lifereport in 8 UK cities

Raising Awareness – Bike Life

Even people who don’t cycle want to see improved facilities for bikes

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All residents

Regular cyclists(in last 4 weeks)

Any cyclists

Non-cyclists

Men

Women

Q21. Whether you ride a bike or not, would you like to see more money spent on cycling in city? Q22 How much do you think should be spent on cycling per person in the UK? Base: All respondents (n=11,016)


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What facilities would help people cycle more?

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“The message from the public couldn’t be clearer: there’s a desire to cycle more, but that a lack of safe places to ride bikes is off-putting.”

Jason Torrance, Policy Director, Sustrans

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Developing A Shared Vision© JonCraig.co.uk

“It is within our power as a city to make the switch to more

sustainable modes of transport through the choices we make

every day”

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Developing A Shared Vision

“Bolder vision for what we want to achieve”

“How to translate the aspiration into delivery”

“Good start but would like to see more ambition”

“Too much carrot, not enough stick”

“It must be implemented, not another strategy that gathers dust on a shelf”

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Delivering with Communities – Street Kit

Bristol’s Green Capital year has been the ideal

place to introduce and try out our new Street Kit,

which gives us a fantastically flexible tool for working with communities

on street design

Delivering with Communities – Street Kit

Raising Awareness• Active City Summit

• Bike Life

Developing A Vision• Good Transport Plan

Delivering with Communities• Community led design

• Street Kit

• Vision and plan for transport in Bristol

• City centre placemaking

• Improving Local streets

• Communicating low carbon transport strategy

• Public engagement

So how did we do?

“During the last couple of years, we have picked the low-hanging fruits. This means that the tough work with reaching those commuters who are not easily affected is now ahead.”

Morten Kabell, Mayor of the Technical and Environmental Administration, Copenhagen

Future Ambitions?

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Future Ambitions?

“So how did we do?”Sharing Lessons Learnedhttps://w

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ethod/transport/

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Smileage.