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View PDF in Full Window For Future Council Executive DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSPORT POLICY DEVELOPMENT AND SCRUTINY PANEL FORTH REPLACEMENT CROSSING PARLIAMENTARY BILL REPORT BY TRANSPORTATION MANAGER A. PURPOSE OF REPORT John Swinney, Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Development has recently introduced a Hybrid Bill to the Scottish Parliament to construct a Forth Replacement Crossing (FRC) and associated infrastructure. The purpose of this report is to present to the panel the benefits, opportunities and risks to West Lothian resulting from the FRC proposals. B. RECOMMENDATION It is recommended, that the panel 1. considers this report and the attached proposed response and recommends them for approval by the Council Executive. The focus of this being the potential impact of the new crossing on Newton village and a lack of adequate public transport provision; 2. recommends to the Council Executive to approve the Joint Position Statement of the new Forth crossing; 3. recommends to the Council Executive that officers be authorised to lodge an objection by the council to the Hybrid Bill at Stage 1 of the parliamentary process, to represent the interests of the council throughout that stage of the process, and to do so in partnership with SEStran and some or all of its constituent authorities if so advised; 4. notes that the SEStran Board approved a report setting out it’s position on the Hybrid Bill at it’s meeting on 4 December 2009; and 5. notes that further reports will be brought forward to advise of the outcome of Stage 1 of the parliamentary process and to seek authority for actions needed to represent the council’s interests at later stages of that process. C. SUMMARY OF IMPLICATIONS I Council Values Focusing on our customers’ needs; being honest, open and accountable; providing equality of opportunities; making best use of our resources; and working in partnership. II Policy and Legal Issues The FRC is scheduled to open in 2016 and (including Strategic will have a significant impact on the central Environmental Assessment, Scotland road network. The southern Equality, Health or Risk approach roads include a small part of the 1 Assessment) council’s local road network. There will be impacts upon some West Lothian communities. Both the Strategic Transport Projects Review (STPR) and the National Planning Framework (NPF2) have identified the FRC as a transport priority for Scotland. However, both documents also make a clear commitment to reducing the dependence on and the environmental impacts of car use. Transport Scotland has submitted the following documents to the Parliament: x Forth Replacement Crossing Bill; x Explanatory Notes; x Policy Memorandum; x Financial Memorandum; x Maps, Plans and Sections and book of reference; x Heritable Interests Statement; x Environmental Statement; x Executive Statement on legislative competence; x Presiding Officers Statement on legislative competence; and x Assigning of the copyright / licensing agreement. III Resources - (Financial, Staff time. Other costs to council cannot Staffing and Property) be identified at this stage. IV Consultations Internal consultation has been carried out with Roads Operations, Planning Services, Legal Services, Property Services and Environmental Health and Trading Standards and Newton Community Council. External consultation has been carried out with SEStran and Hopetoun House. A comprehensive consultation process has been conducted by Transport Scotland; West Lothian communities have been afforded the opportunity to participate in a number of consultation events. D. TERMS OF REPORT INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND On 10 December 2008, the Scottish Government published the Strategic Transport 2 Projects Review (STPR). The STPR recommends a total of 29 transport packages to be delivered from 2012 – 2022 in key locations across the country, including a number of projects that will have an impact on West Lothian. STPR Project 14 is the Forth Replacement Crossing, which is the Government’s number one transport priority. The Hybrid Bill and accompanying documents seeking powers to construct a Forth crossing, was introduced to the Scottish Parliament on 16 November 2009 by John Swinney, Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth. The closing date for objections is 26 January 2010. POLICY OBJECTIVE - THE NEED FOR THE CROSSING The policy objective of the Scottish Government is: ‘to provide, in the light of uncertainties about the future availability of the Forth Road Bridge (FRB), a continuing and reliable primary road link between Edinburgh and the Lothians and Fife and beyond in order to safeguard the economy, particularly of the east coast of Scotland’. To achieve that objective, the Bill seeks the power to construct and operate a new bridge over the Firth of Forth to the west of the existing road bridge. The new crossing will carry general permitted classes of road traffic (such as cars, vans and lorries) thus enabling the existing bridge to continue to operate on a restricted basis for public transport, pedestrians and other specified users. THE FORTH CROSSING BILL The Bill and its supporting documents set out the process and powers needed to deliver the crossing. The 60-day objection period began with the depositing of the Bill. The objection period is from 16 November 2009 to 26 January 2010. During the objection period the Hybrid Bill Committee (the Committee) will be established. This Committee will comprise five MSPs who have no geographical connection to the Forth Estuary. The Committee will preside over the three stages of the Bill procedure. Stage 1 is the consideration stage where the general principles and the objections to the full Bill are considered. Stage 2 is the Committee stage where evidence is heard, objections to specific issues are considered and an objections report is published. The Committee can also consider amendments to the Bill. Stage 3 is the parliamentary debate stage and a motion to pass the Bill is considered. If the Bill is passed it will become an Act of Parliament and Royal Assent will be granted. The individual timescales for stages 1 – 3 are not stated but the process is expected to take around 13 months. The Hybrid Bill process is shown in Appendix 1. PROJECT SPECIFICATIONS The new crossing will be a cable-stayed bridge with three towers. Construction will start in 2011 and the new crossing is planned to open in 2016. The southern approaches will be from an extended A90 and from the A904. Junction 1a of the M9 will be upgraded to an all-ways junction. The bridge will carry a two-lane dual 3 carriageway with hard shoulders and it will be classified as a trunk road. The crossing will not have footways or cycleways. A map indicating the crossing and approach road layout is provided in Appendix 2. Traffic on the bridge and its approach trunk roads (A90 and M9) will be managed by an ‘Intelligent Traffic System’ (ITS). The ITS is an information system to instruct drivers of variable speed limits and route management options. BENEFITS TO WEST LOTHIAN A key benefit to West Lothian is that from 2016 there will be a new crossing in place, one that will have a slightly higher capacity than the existing crossing. It will not need to be closed for maintenance and will be able to withstand higher wind speeds resulting in fewer closures. The FRC will secure a better crossing for the A90/M90 corridor and will provide improved road connectivity to Fife and beyond. The background reports indicate that the FRC will have a capacity improvement of about 10 percent over the existing road bridge. In addition, public transport will use the existing corridor as a dedicated and uncongested route leaving the new bridge for use by general traffic. This will help the two existing Fife / West Lothian services X51 Stagecoach service and the 635 Nordi Travel service both of which operate a low frequency service between Livingston and Dunfermline. In its proposed form, the new crossing will have no adverse effect on the planned Winchburgh Core Development Area and does not jeopardise the construction of a new junction on the M9. PUBLIC TRANSPORT CONCERNS Transport Scotland’s traffic modelling forecast predicts an increase in traffic on the new crossing and it’s approach roads from the year of opening. This will cause delays for buses and freight unless priority measures are provided. The Bill only provides limited proposals for priority measures around Ferry Toll and the A8000 (now B800) and includes no dedicated bus measures on the M9 and through the Newbridge area. Without provision of priority measures, buses will be subject to delays on the approach roads. Further, there will need to be a mode shift from car to bus or other public transport if the bridge is to operate within its capacity. The types of measures needed to facilitate public transport are already identified in the Regional Transport Strategy and in discussions with SEStran, Fife Council and the City of Edinburgh Council. Several meetings with Transport Scotland were held where the councils’ joint concerns regarding the lack of public transport measures were raised. This led to a meeting with the Transport Minister on 29 October where he gave a commitment to develop a public transport strategy for cross Forth travel in parallel but outside of the Bill process. As part of the preparation for the meeting with the Minister, a joint position was agreed by officers and members of SEStran, Fife Council, City of Edinburgh Council and this council. The joint position is attached in Appendix 3 In its proposed form, the FRC Bill poses an avoidable risk to the transport network. Without a mode shift from car to public transport there will be more traffic, increased congestion, with an adverse effect on the national economy and increased traffic emissions, which will threaten the Government’s climate change targets of a 42% 4 reduction by 2020 and an 80% reduction by 2050.
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