Education Service Traffic Management
The Lake District National Park is Park and mid-mornings and late down, with recorded increases an area of outstandingly beautiful afternoons can be exceptionally being largely confined to main and varied landscape and the busy. In recent years, the rate of roads such as the A591. scenery is the reason most people increase of traffic has slowed give for visiting the Lake District (62%, 1994 All Parks Visitor The Lake District National Park
Survey). Aspatria Caldbeck The Lake District remained Maryport relatively isolated until the 19th Cockermouth PENRITH century when new railways allowed WORKINGTON Mungrisdale the large urban populations of A66 Northwest England to visit the area easily. Both trade and early tourism flourished. In the 1940s, it Patterdale M6 was recognised that areas such as A591 Shap the Lake District would benefit Seatoller Grasmere St. Bees from some kind of special N Wasdale protection. The Lake District was Langdale Elterwater Waterhead designated a National Park in 1951 Eskdale Hawkshead Staveley to conserve and enhance its special Ravenglass Coniston landscape while providing Roads B5284 opportunities for the public to Railways enjoy that landscape. At this time, Broughton-in Traffic Counter - Furness it was expected that “walkers, Towns & Villages A590 cyclists, riders and students of nature” would be the main users of National Park 16 the National Park rather than 0 kilometres motorists, although National Parks were intended for all to enjoy. Table of Traffic Flow at Waterhead, Ambleside. A591 Since then, car ownership has Year 1981 1992 1997 1999 increased and now the vast majority of visitors come by car. Average number of 9600 13500 14600 14700 Today, over 12 million people visit vehicles per day the National Park annually (staying for 22 million days) while Source: Cumbria County Council, Transport and Policies 1999/2000, and Local 42,000 people live in the National Transport Plan 2001/2-2005/6 Park. 89% of visitors come to the Monthly Traffic Flow, Waterhead, Ambleside, A591 National Park by private motor vehicle. Source: Lake District Transport Strategy Implementation Plan: Stage One 2000-2005. The Lake District National Park 20000 Authority (LDNPA) and Cumbria County Council (CCC) have a 15000 number of automatic traffic counters around the National Park 10000 to help understand traffic 5000 Flow movements. Traffic is greatest (Vehicles) during the summer months when 0 most visitors come to the National Jan Mar May July Sept Nov and Borrowdale concerning the Annual Average Daily Traffic Flow impact of these closures on the 2500 tourism trade. 2000
1500 The Lake District Traffic Management Initiative 1000 The Lake District Traffic Management Initiative (LDTMI) 500 was set up in 1993 as a partnership
Number of vehicles in 24 hours 0 between Cumbria County Council 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 (CCC), the LDNPA, Cumbria Year Tourist Board (CTB) and the Countryside Commission (now the