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Cambridgeshire Local Transport Plan 2011 – 2026 LTP Policies and Strategy Cambridgeshire Local Transport Plan 2011 – 2026 Policies and Strategy John Onslow Acting Executive Director of Environment Services Cambridgeshire County Council Shire Hall Castle Hill Cambridge CB3 0AP LTP Policies and Strategy LTP Policies and Strategy CONTENTS Foreword .....................................................................................................................................iii Executive Summary .....................................................................................................................v Our Vision....................................................................................................................................ix 1. Introduction 1-1 The scope of the LTP ............................................................................................................... 1-1 The issues ................................................................................................................................1-4 The strategy ............................................................................................................................. 1-7 The LTP suite of documents .................................................................................................... 1-7 2. Objectives 2-1 Cambridgeshire LTP objectives ............................................................................................... 2-1 Local Transport Plan indicators................................................................................................ 2-3 3. Problems and Challenges 3-1 Introduction............................................................................................................................... 3-1 LTP Objectives 1 and 4 ............................................................................................................ 3-2 LTP Objective 2........................................................................................................................ 3-6 LTP Objective 3........................................................................................................................ 3-8 LTP Objective 5...................................................................................................................... 3-11 Conclusion.............................................................................................................................. 3-17 4. Strategy – Meeting the Challenges 4-1 Introduction............................................................................................................................... 4-1 Funding .................................................................................................................................... 4-6 Challenge 1: Improving the reliability of journey times by managing demand for road space, where appropriate and maximising capacity and efficiency of the existing network................. 4-7 Challenge 2: Reducing the length of the commute and the need to travel by private car.. 4-20 Challenge 3: Making sustainable modes of transport a viable and attractive alternative to the private car ...................................................................................................................... 4-25 Challenge 4: Future-proofing our maintenance strategy and new transport infrastructure to cope with the effects of climate change ................................................................................. 4-47 Challenge 5: Ensuring people – especially those at risk of social exclusion – can access the services they need within reasonable time, cost and effort.................................................... 4-50 Challenge 6: Addressing the main causes of road accidents in Cambridgeshire.............. 4-63 Challenge 7: Protecting and enhancing the natural environment by minimising the environmental impact of transport .......................................................................................... 4-80 Challenge 8: Influencing national and local decisions on land-use and transport planning that impact on routes through Cambridgeshire ............................................................................. 4-92 5. Conclusion 5-1 i LTP Policies and Strategy List of Figures Figure 0.1. Council Priorities and LTP Objectives ........................................................................vi Figure 1.1. Government Capital Funding of Cambridgeshire Local Transport Plans, 2001/02 - 2014/15.................................................................................................................... 1-1 Figure 1.2. Integrated Transport and Maintenance Block funding for Cambridgeshire 2011/12 - 2014/15.................................................................................................................... 1-2 Figure 1.3. Growth areas in Cambridgeshire ............................................................................. 1-5 Figure 1.4. Council Priorities and LTP Objectives ..................................................................... 1-6 Figure 1.5. LTP documents and their links to wider policies, strategies and plans.................... 1-9 Figure 2.1. Summary of how LTP Objectives will be met .......................................................... 2-2 Figure 2.2. Cambridgeshire LTP3 indicators ............................................................................. 2-3 Figure 3.1. Road accident casualties in Cambridgeshire since 1994 ........................................ 3-3 Figure 3.2. Levels of walking and cycling in Cambridgeshire .................................................... 3-5 Figure 3.3. UK Carbon budgets as set out by the Climate Change Act 2008.......................... 3-11 Figure 3.4. Air Quality Management Areas around Cambridge ............................................... 3-13 Figure 3.5. Traffic-related Air Quality Management Areas in Cambridgeshire ........................ 3-14 Figure 4.1. Summary of the LTP strategy .................................................................................. 4-2 Figure 4.2. User hierarchy ......................................................................................................... 4-3 Figure 4.3. Challenges to meet our LTP Objectives .................................................................. 4-4 Figure 4.4. Cambridgeshire Road hierarchy .............................................................................. 4-5 Figure 4.5. Cambridge and Market Town Transport Strategies............................................... 4-11 Figure 4.6. Impacts of Ely Southern Link Road ....................................................................... 4-18 Figure 4.7. Alignment of the Ely Southern Link Road scheme that was the subject of a Major Scheme bid in 2004............................................................................................... 4-18 Figure 4.8. 2010 usage statistics for walkit.com ...................................................................... 4-30 Figure 4.9. Location of the proposed Chesterton Interchange................................................. 4-43 Figure 4.10. Impacts of Chesterton Interchange........................................................................ 4-44 Figure 4.11. Chesterton Interchange expenditure profile........................................................... 4-44 Figure 4.12. Journey times by rail and Guided Bus from Chesterton Interchange .................... 4-45 Figure 4.13. Community Transport Schemes in Cambridgeshire (2009)................................... 4-52 Figure 4.14. Coverage of Community Transport Schemes in Cambridgeshire ......................... 4-53 Figure 4.15. Community Car Schemes and Dial-a-Ride in South Cambridgeshire ................... 4-62 Figure 4.16. Safety schemes and measures implemented in Cambridgeshire since 2001 ....... 4-65 Figure 4.17. Pupils trained in safer cycling in 2008 and 2009 ................................................... 4-66 Figure 4.18. Drivers/Riders (aged 17 or over) involved in personal injury accidents, by journey purpose.................................................................................................................. 4-69 Figure 4.19. Car Driver casualties by age and gender (2007 and 2009 average) ..................... 4-72 Figure 4.20. TMMV casualties by age and gender (2007 and 2009 average)........................... 4-72 Figure 4.21. Performance against Indicator LTP 07 – travel to school by private car ............... 4-74 Figure 4.22. The A14 at Spittals Interchange, Huntingdon, at Dry Drayton and an aerial view of the Girton Interchange with the M11, A428 and A1307......................................... 4-97 Figure 4.23. Progress against CHUMMS recommendations as of March 2011 ........................ 4-98 ii LTP Policies and Strategy Foreword iii LTP Policies and Strategy iv LTP Policies and Strategy Executive Summary This is Cambridgeshire’s Third Local Transport Plan (also referred to as the LTP, LTP3 and the Plan) and covers the period 2011-2026. The Plan is split in to two main parts; this first part is the Policies and Strategy, which sets out the Plan’s objectives, problems and challenges and the strategy to meet the challenges. The second part is the Implementation Plan, which is essentially a business plan detailing how we will deliver the LTP3 Strategy. It details our programmes for the delivery of transport improvements to the networks managed by the County Council, and also for the day-to-day
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