Tackling the transport and access issue Report of virtual Transport Working Group ACTION PLAN

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Tackling the transport (and access)
issueReport of virtual Transport Working
GroupACTION PLAN

• Peter Bungard
• Executive Director
• Gloucestershire County Council
• Dec 2004

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Action plan dilemma
Whats 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
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5 buttons
Nothing to do with us!
We Endorse?
Support action of one partner
Joint partner action
Advocacy
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Gloucestershireconnected
Action Lobby for a solution to safety and
congestion problems on A417 Nettleton to
Brockworth Bypass. Needs community united behind
a solution
Action To secure a new InterCity station for
Gloucestershire Gloucestershire Parkway GCC
lead, but lacks development funding. Private
sector will pay for build
Support action of one partner
We Endorse?
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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

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Targets for buses

• 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?

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Transport VisionCheltenham and Gloucester
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Transport VisionCheltenham 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

Support action of one partner
OR Joint partner action? Many are our employees
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A safer Gloucestershire
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A safer Gloucestershire
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A safer Gloucestershire
Joint partner action

• 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?

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The state ofthe roads!

• 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

• What do we know?
• Recent investment in A roads put them at 75
  ile in England
• Other roads at 25 ile in England
• Govt target to remove local roads backlog by
  2011
• Our backlog is 130M
• 2005/06 will see highest ever spend on road
  maintenance in Gloucestershire, but will barely
  touch backlog
• 54 public satisfaction with roads maintenance

Support action of one partner
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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

Joint partner action
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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
  PR (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)

Joint partner action
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Access to Education

• Action
• Mapping exercise by Glos. Learning Partnership
• Current 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?

Ive taken the course that I could reach, not the
one for my career ambitions
Joint partner action
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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

Origins Social Exclusion Unit Making
Connections report
Key Services
Centralisation
Employment, Education, Health, Leisure
Me, you, etc
Transport
Joint partner action
Knowledge evidence of need long way to
service, poor transport, difficult road to
cross, bus misses surgery times,
Reduce need to travel
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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

Joint partner action
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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

• At bus stops poor street lighting
• Safety on buses at night
• Drug problems at interchanges
• limited police presence
• Vandalism and graffiti affect peoples
• confidence
• Car crime
• Statistically public transport is safe, but
• perceptions count.

Joint partner action
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Citizenship issues
Driving attitude, road rage and flaunting traffic
laws
A declining volunteer base, but a future based on
community transport!

• 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

Volunteering in transport started with hospital
cars but now journeys are too long
Misbehaviour on buses vandalism
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Not yet developed further

• 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

Night-time Economy

• 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

Lack of evening and Sunday bus services

• 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

Declining bus use in Stroud!
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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

Traffic continues to grow . Car occupancy is
falling
Kids no longer walk to school major traffic
growth of last 20 years
Health walking and cycling obesity
Health air pollution congestion asthma
Joint partner action
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
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What have we missed?
Future GSP engagement
Cycling actions and targets
Transport Task Group
Walking
Occasional single issue debates
Your travel plans
As individual bodies and employers
and the benefits of joining-up major employer
plans
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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
• blue sky objectives or macro-trends
• work in progress, but we dont yet know answers
• issues that will hit us in 2005 and we need to
  manage