“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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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