Greater Manchester Local Transport Plan 2 2006/07 – 2010/11 March 2006 Final Local Transport Plan 2006/07 - 2010/11 Contents Foreword 4 Summary 6 1 Introduction 12 1.1 The Greater Manchester Area and its Regional Context 13 1.2 Challenges for Greater Manchester 15 2 Greater Manchester's Longer-Term Vision and Integrated Transport Strategy 16 2.1 The Vision for Greater Manchester 17 2.2 The Greater Manchester Integrated Transport Strategy 19 3 Development of LTP2 22 3.1 Lessons Learned from LTP1 23 3.2 Work Completed Since Submission of Provisional LTP2 24 3.3 Strategic Environmental Assessment 25 3.4 Consultation and Engagement 27 3.5 Greater Manchester's Administrative Structure 30 4 Problems, Issues and Desired Outcomes 33 4.1 Overall Approach 33 4.2 General Results of Analysis 33 4.3 Problems in Shared Priority Areas 38 4.3.1 Congestion 38 4.3.2 Accessibility 41 4.3.3 Road Safety 43 4.3.4 Air Quality 47 4.3.5 Public Transport 49 4.4 Regional Centre 51 4.5 Other Quality of Life Issues 54 4.6 Rural Issues 55 4.7 Cross-boundary issues 56 Final Local Transport Plan 2006/07 - 2010/11 Contents 5 The 5-Year Programme 60 5.1 Introduction 60 5.2 Achieving Desired Outcomes by Tackling Shared Priorities 60 5.2.1 Managing Congestion 60 5.2.2 Delivering Accessibility 78 5.2.3 Improving Transport Safety and Security 84 5.2.4 Better Air Quality 91 5.2.5 Public Transport Case Studies 94 5.2.6 Other Quality of Life Issues 99 5.3 Regional Centre 105 5.4 Manchester Airport 107 5.5 Rural Issues 109 5.6 Asset Management 109 5.7 Corridor Partnerships 115 5.8 The SEMMMS Programme 118 5.9 Transport Infrastructure Fund 120 5.10 Major Schemes 122 5.10.1 Metrolink 122 5.10.2 Progress on Fully Approved Schemes 124 5.10.3 Schemes with Programme Entry or Conditional Approval Status 126 5.10.4 Schemes where Further Information has been Requested 127 5.10.5 Major Schemes Bids 128 5.11 Transport Innovation Fund 129 5.12 Achieving Value for Money 130 5.13 Risk Management 134 5.14 Linkages with Other Strategies 134 5.15 Use of Revenue Funding to Meet LTP2 Objectives 137 5.16 Spending Programme Summary 137 5.16.1 Internal Distribution of Integrated Transport Block Funding 137 5.16.2 Complementary Funding Sources 138 5.16.3 LTP2 Spending Programme Summary 141 6 Performance Indicators and Targets 142 6.1 Introduction 142 6.2 Targets for the Wider Vision 142 6.3 Choice of Indicators 142 6.4 The Basis for the Development of Targets 143 6.5 Target Setting and Programme Development 144 6.6 Monitoring Framework 145 6.7 Improving Performance 146 6.7.1 Annual Review of Targets and Programmes 146 6.7.2 Strengthening the Relationship Between Performance and Actions 147 6.8 Working with the DfT 148 6.9 Headline Targets 149 7 Final LTP2 Checklist 155 8 Glossary 163 Final Local Transport Plan 2006/07 - 2010/11 Contents 0 Figures Figure 1.1 - Location of Greater Manchester 12 Figure 1.2 - Journeys to Work within and between Segments and to Key Centres 14 Figure 4.1 - Driving Licence Holding in GM 34 Figure 4.2 - Motorway Traffic Flows 1991-2004 35 Figure 4.3 - Traffic Flows on 'A' and 'B' Roads 1991-2004 36 Figure 4.4 - Greater Manchester Morning Peak (7 to 10am) Average Delay 39 Figure 4.5 - Congestion 40 Figure 4.6 - Accessibility to Key Centres with Interchanges 42 Figure 4.7 - KSI Clusters for Motorways, 'A' and 'B' Roads 45 Figure 4.8 - Child KSI Statistics for All Roads 46 Figure 4.9 - Air Quality Management Areas 48 Figure 4.10 - Public Transport Journeys in Greater Manchester 49 Figure 4.11 - Cross Boundary Journeys to Work 59 Figure 5.1 - LTP2 Cycle Investment Priorities 65 Figure 5.2 - Corridor Partnerships 117 Figure 5.3 - Metrolink Network 123 Figure 6.1 - The Target Setting Loop 145 Figure 6.2 - Target Review Process 146 0 Tables Table 3.1 - Response to recommendations of the SEA 26 Table 4.1 - Road Casualties Greater Manchester, 2000 to 2004 43 Table 4.2 - 2005 Modal Split Weekdays Between 7:30 and 9:30 am 53 Table 4.3 - 2011 Projected Modal Split 53 Table 4.4 - Cross Boundary Issues by Authority Area 56 Table 5.1 - Results of Cleaner Vehicles Tests 92 Table 5.2 - RoWIPs can assist the shared priorities 111 Table 5.3 - Appraisal Summary Table for LTP2 Integrated Transport Block compared 132 to reference case Table 5.4 - Relative weightings of national and local funding distribution mechanisms 138 Table 5.5 - Examples of complementary funding sources 139 Table 5.6 - Summary of support sought from LTP capital settlement (£k) 141 Table 6.1 - Local LTP Performance Indicators 143 Table 6.2 - Summary of LTP2 Headline Indicators and Targets 149 1 Index 166 4 Final Local Transport Plan 2006/07 - 2010/11 Foreword This document is the second Greater Manchester Local Transport Plan. It sets out our five year programme for investment in local transport, in order to help deliver our long term vision and strategy for Greater Manchester. If you would like more information on this document, or would like to obtain a large print, Braille, audiotape or an alternative language version, please telephone 0161 242 6085, or visit our website www.gmltp.co.uk Final Local Transport Plan 2006/07 - 2010/11 5 Foreword We are pleased to present to Government our Second Local Transport Plan, which has been produced by the Ten Greater Manchester Local Authorities and the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Authority. This Plan builds on the strategy and work undertaken as part of our first Local Transport Plan (2001/2-2005/6), our longer-term Greater Manchester Integrated Transport Strategy (GMITS) launched in Spring 2005, and our provisional Second Local Transport Plan (LTP2) which was published in July 2005. It also takes account of the Strategic Environmental Assessment which was undertaken on the provisional LTP2. The Plan sets out our five-year programme as the starting point for delivering our longer-term vision and strategy for Greater Manchester. It sets out the targets we are seeking to achieve, which are fully in line with the Government's White Paper on Transport and the LGA/DfT Shared Priorities and are consistent with the funding guidelines set by central government. It also describes how we intend to monitor and manage the Plan over time. Expansion of Metrolink remains key for Greater Manchester, and we will continue to work hard with DfT to reach agreement on the expansion of the network in line with the Government's declared objective. We are currently taking forward the renewal and refurbishment of the Phase 1 and 2 network. Another key component of the Plan, and of our successful Transport Innovation Fund pump priming bid, is the development of corridor partnerships with key delivery organisations. These partnerships are looking at how we can integrate regeneration and land-use plans in individual corridors with transport modes, including the use of other complementary measures including travel planning, technology and demand management. They will commit partners, via a local area agreement mechanism, to delivery of their components of the plan and work is well advanced in the first four corridors. Buses remain central to our delivery plans and hence we have been working with the bus industry and other stakeholders to develop robust bus and accessibility strategies as part of LTP2. We believe that the partnership of the ten Greater Manchester local authorities plus the Passenger Transport Authority is, despite its size, one of the most effective in the country. We have achieved much by working together on transport matters, and this cooperation is being strengthened further with this final second Local Transport Plan. It will ensure that Greater Manchester continues to become a better place to live, work and invest, increasing its economic competitiveness, and improving social inclusion and the quality of the environment. We look forward to working in partnership with Government to deliver our shared vision for a fully integrated transport system which makes best use of existing infrastructure and supports the continued economic and urban regeneration of Greater Manchester. Councillor Peter Smith Councillor Roger Jones Leader of AGMA Chair of GMPTA 6 Final Local Transport Plan 2006/07 - 2010/11 Summary Final Local Transport Plan 2006/07 - 2010/11 7 Summary This second Greater Manchester Local Transport Plan (LTP2) outlines the approach being taken by the Greater Manchester authorities towards transport planning and investment for the period 2006/7 to 2010/11. It builds upon the principles and context of the Provisional LTP2, submitted in July 2005. Since that time work has continued on strategy development, including the Accessibility, Air Quality and Bus Strategies, which are being submitted alongside this final Plan. Programmes of individual authorities have been further developed, along with the Plan’s targets and trajectories. Greater Manchester - A Dynamic City Region Government is increasingly framing national economic policy around the economic success of City Regions and their direct relationship to, and major impact on, national economic competitiveness. Closing the productivity gap between London/the South East and the rest of the Country is a national priority, and the Northern Way Growth Strategy, Regional Economic Strategy and other national, regional and local strategies have identified the Manchester City Region as having the potential to make the most significant contribution to the future growth of the North of England.