CITY MOBILITY PLAN 2021-2030 CONTENTS FOREWORD......................................................1 SPATIAL VISION AND THE PATH TO 5 2030 ......................................................................51 INTRODUCTION AND CONTEXT .....3 2023 - Delivering now, planning for the future ...............52 2025 - Bolder actions ..................................................52 Purpose and status ......................................................4 2030 - A city transformed ............................................53 1 Vision and objectives ...................................................5 Spatial vision ..............................................................53 Listening to you ............................................................6 Challenges and commitments .......................................6 Placemaking ................................................................11 IMPLEMENTATION.....................................55 COVID-19 - impacts and recovery ..................................12 Implementation plan approach ....................................56 Our city’s progress ........................................................13 6 Governance and engagement ........................................56 Project and risk management ......................................56 PEOPLE ................................................................15 Investment and funding ...............................................56 Making sustainable choices .........................................16 2 Equal access to the city .................................................17 MEASURING SUCCESS ..........................57 Mode share targets ......................................................22 People are the plan ......................................................22 7 ...............................................................59 APPENDIX 1 Policy measures index ..................................................60 MOVEMENT .....................................................23 .............................................................69 Sustainable and integrated travel .................................24 APPENDIX 2 3 City leadership in a changing world ...............................69 Safe and efficient movement .........................................36 Clean air and energy .....................................................40 Managing demand .......................................................42 APPENDIX 3 ..............................................................73 Edinburgh Strategic Sustainable Transport Study Phase 2 – Summary .....................................................................74 PLACE ...................................................................45 4 Our city ......................................................................46 REFERENCES .............................................................76 A transformed city centre .............................................46 20-Minute neighbourhoods .........................................47 Streets for people ........................................................49 Transport is the single biggest These costs directly affect us all Making a positive difference to FOREWORD contributor to greenhouse gas and fall disproportionately on people’s lives in a fast-changing emissions, including carbon1, those on low to middle incomes environment requires ambition, Across the world, progressive cities are embracing the global challenges and central to the damage we are who are struggling week to week courage, focus and a change of doing to our planet. If we are to to balance household budgets. pace in delivery. We cannot spend of climate change and inequality with action and vision. Transport, the meet the challenge of becoming The least able to afford pay the another twenty years building a way we move people and goods around, and in and out of cities, is being net carbon zero by 2030, our most. single tram line when we need to transport policies and practises develop a truly integrated public revolutionised. have to change. Edinburgh needs mobility transport network, including systems that by 2030 are additional tram lines, in the next It’s not just the climate cost to carbon emission free, efficient, ten years. future generations. In Edinburgh, accessible and affordable, and we spend nearly £1 billion a year allow people to spend more This Plan sets out our on transport. That’s over £80 time improving their quality commitment to delivering truly per household per week to move of life. We need a transport sustainable, safe and integrated around, in and out of the city. By system designed for everyone, mobility for Edinburgh over the 2030 we will be spending £1.3 whatever our location, economic next 10 years. It captures views billion2. That means we spend circumstances, gender, culture or from several years of varied more on transport than anything abilities. engagement and reflects what else apart from mortgages or many of you have told us is most rents. Over the past ten years Edinburgh important to you. has made significant progress. And this doesn’t take into But now is the time for bolder, Though the outcomes set out in account the cost of transporting more transformational action. this strategy will benefit current goods and services, nor the cost The COVID-19 pandemic has and future residents of the city we of unproductive hours spent in significantly changed how people know change can be disruptive. congested traffic, the societal move around the city. At this We will continue to listen to cost of fatalities and serious point we remain in a period of you and involve communities injuries due to traffic or ill health uncertainty, so the Plan will be as solutions for the future are and early mortality affected by flexible to take account of longer designed and delivered. We are the impacts of poor air quality. term impacts as they become confident that as a city working clearer. However, cleaner air, together, for the sake of its future, more walking, wheeling and we can make this happen. cycling, more local spending, and fewer journeys to work are all outcomes that should be supported. Councillor Lesley Macinnes Councillor Karen Doran Transport & Environment Convener Transport & Environment Vice-Convener 1 / CITY MOBILITY PLAN FOREWORD \ 2 Transport is the largest producer of carbon emissions in Scotland so the policies around how people, goods and services are moved around the country have a key role to play in the battle against global warming. This Plan puts the climate emergency at the centre of its actions. 1 INTRODUCTION This City Mobility Plan sets out Edinburgh’s route to achieving sustainable and effective mobility across the city and into the region. AND CONTEXT If Edinburgh is to play its part and lead on the challenges ahead, if it is to be a truly sustainable city, where mobility meets the needs of people As we move through the third and our environment, we need ambition, courage and a shared sense of decade of the 21st century, the responsibility. The Council will play its part, but success cannot be achieved greatest threat to humankind is without a shared commitment from everyone. that of climate change. Across the world countries are taking steps This chapter focuses on: It contains a series of objectives This Plan adopts a holistic • Purpose and Status and policy measures under the approach seeking to focus on the to reduce carbon emissions. • Vision and Objectives themes of People, Movement choices that people and businesses • Listening to You and Place which will, collectively, can make, the role that the Council The Scottish Government has • Challenges and Commitments achieve the Vision for this Plan. has in providing supporting • Placemaking infrastructure and the kind of declared a climate emergency The policy measures will support • COVID-19 – Impacts and places that are created as a result the creation of detailed actions and Edinburgh is committed Recovery of this. In doing so we will continue and action plans, helping to • Our City’s Progress to work closely with other Council to being net zero carbon prioritise investment in mobility strategies and plans, especially the across the city. by 2030. PURPOSE AND STATUS emerging City Plan 2030 where the This Plan also sets the context City Mobility Plan will be a material This City Mobility Plan (the Plan) for partnership-working with consideration in the determination sets out the Council’s strategic local, regional and national of planning applications for new approach to the sustainable, safe stakeholders and continuing development. and effective movement of people engagement with the and goods around Edinburgh up This Plan replaces Edinburgh’s communities of Edinburgh. to 2030. Local Transport Strategy 2014-2019. Strategic Transport Project National Transport Strategy National Planning Framework NATIONAL Review 2 REGIONAL Regional Transport Strategy City Region Deal Strategic Development Plan CITY Edinburgh City Vision 2050 Ending Poverty in Edinburgh 2030 Sustainability Strategy Economy Strategy Delivery Plan 2030 City Mobility Plan 2030 City Plan 2030 Key Existing Action Plans/ New Action Plans/Schemes DELIVERY Schemes (to be progressed) Public and Transport Asset Low Emission Zone, Place/Site Road Active City Centre Accessible Management Parking Workplace Parking Briefs, Guidance Safety Travel Transformation Transport Plan Levy etc etc 1 INTRODUCTION \ 4 VISION AND OBJECTIVES LISTENING TO YOU policy measures which