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Cambridge City Deal
Better transport for Cambridge: an
achievable goal
Stephen Joseph, Chief Executive
Campaign for Better Transport
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Cambridge City Deal
Campaign for Better Transport
• Charitable trust promoting sustainable transport
• Support from wide range of interests
• Co-ordinates environmental and other NGOs
concerned with transport
• Commissions and publishes research
• Conducts public campaigns
• Promotes pilot projects and good practice
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Cambridge City Deal
There is a tendency to look to
Europe…
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…and say you can’t plan round
public transport in the UK
- Buses are deregulated
- Railways are privatised
- There’s no road pricing
- There’s no strategic planning
But we’ve found there are some good UK
examples of development around public
transport
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Cambridge City Deal
Strategy
- Black Country Core Strategy
- Gloucestershire Local Transport Plan
- South Yorkshire traffic light grading
- PTALs in London
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Economic development: retail
with less parking
- Trinity Leeds
- Liverpool One
- Hull
- Media City
- Glasshoughton
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Cambridge City Deal
Business parks
- Chiswick Park
- Quorum and Cobalt
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Housing
- Kilnwood Vale
- Shawfair
- Kent Fastrack
- Leighton Buzzard
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Southern Leighton Buzzard
development
• “Dash Direct” bus
• Station Travel Plan
• Cycling and walking
• Household screens
• Limited car parking
Modal shift 2012: 24.2%;
Bus users with car: 48%
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Bringing it together: Devon
- New stations serving housing and
commercial development
- “Devon Metro” rail services
- Tavistock reopening
- Bus links to Cranbrook
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So why do this?
- More choice
- Less congestion
- Reduced pollution
- Less social isolation
- Tackling climate change
- Liveable places
- Reduced car dependence
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Car dependence is a problem for…
•Those with cars (who have
to drive more)
•Those without cars, who are
excluded from society
Car dependency scorecard
shows that towns and cities
vary enormously
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Ways forward
- More strategic planning
- Revised planning policies (NPPF etc)
- Local Enterprise Partnerships to promote sustainable
transport
- Locating new development around public transport
- Improving public transport – better bus and rail policies
- Limited/ managed parking
- Street layouts and design standards for active travel
- Transport modelling reforms
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Public transport oriented
development
Link public transport and new development
Joint rail/development projects
Use developments to fund rail investment
Develop rail stations as gateways/hubs
Create town-wide transport partnerships
Local and national planning policies should support this
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Threats: investment in major
roads…
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.. cuts in public transport funding?
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Opportunities
• Changing transport trends: less car travel
• Devolution: more control over local
transport, including rail stations, and more
integration with development
• Bus reforms
• Business rate reforms
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New forms of transport funding
• “Total Transport” pilots now
underway
• Workplace parking levy in
Nottingham
• Developer funding
• Road funding – “integration”
Need revenue funding, not just
capital
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New organisations
The push for devolution:
• Rail North/ Transport for the
North
• Combined authorities
• Transport partnerships
Need joint transport/ land use/
economic plans, as in London
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Local Sustainable Transport
Fund helps the economy
• Help for employers (travel plans)
• Helping unemployed people into work
• Local public transport improvements (new
services, lower fares)
• Promoting active travel
• Community involvement
• Improving the public realm
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Evidence shows that these are working
– and are good value for money
• North Somerset “kickstart” project: 21-24% increase in
patronage
• Swindon-Westbury rail service: 160,000 passengers in
year 1 (forecast was 45,000)
• Nottingham: half price “Kangeroo” card for jobseekers,
32,000 a month by Sept 2013, 17% of card holders
found employment
• Telford town centre box road, turning one side into
“urban street” 20 mph zone – attracting £250m
regeneration scheme
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Smart growth not dumb
growth…
Economic growth doesn’t mean more and more roads and cars:
• Vienna: car use has fallen from 40% - 36%, 30% of journeys are now on foot or bike, 34% public transport
• Los Angeles: 90% car, 10% rest
• London: 1993- car 46% public transport 30%; 2010- car 34% public transport 42%
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Conclusion
► It is possible to plan new development in the UK around public transport, not just roads and cars
► If public transport is provided, people will use it - reliance on cars is not inevitable
► This can help cut car dependence, which is bad for those with cars and those without, and for the wider economy, environment and society
► Devolution and new powers for councils and combined authorities are making these easier
► Better Government policies on planning, spending and regulation could make sustainable transport a lot easier
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For more information
Campaign for Better Transport
www.bettertransport.org.uk
020 7566 6480