Review of plans, policies and

IMPROVE ACCESS BY SUSTAINABLE MODES

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  The Government has put in place a substantial programme to promote changes towards more sustainable patterns of travel behaviour using a range of measures collectively known as Smarter Choices. These include workplace, school and personalised travel planning, travel awareness campaigns and marketing and offer greater potential to reduce congestion and carbon emissions. Local Authorities are the key delivery agents for using the Smarter Choices, primarily through the land-use planning system and as part of their 5 year Local Transport Plans (LTPs) (Energy White Paper, 2007, para 7.64 and para 7.65)
  
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  Promote sustainable transport choices for both people and for moving freight (PPG13 para.4).
  

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  Provide a high quality integrated public transport network to increase the attractiveness of travel by non car modes (Transport Ten Year Plan para.1.4) bus services will be the dominant mode of travel but need to invest in better rail links (The Northern Way p.18 and Business Plan 2005-2008 p. 32)
  
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  Create better, safer and more reliable transport systems, leading to increased use of public transport and reductions in road congestion by 2010 (Urban White Paper para 7.28)
  
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  Improve public transport services in the radial corridors (Salford West Regeneration Framework p.34)
  
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  Enhance personal safety and security on public transport (GM Strategy p34)
  
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  Influencing the location and design of new development can reduce the need to travel, particularly by car, minimising transport energy demand and impacts on the environment and climate change (Energy White Paper, 2007, para 7.76).
  
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  Improve quality and frequency of transport to increase access and use of services. (Health Inequalities in Salford- a local strategy for action, p50)
  

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  Promote accessibility to jobs, shopping, leisure facilities and services by public transport, walking and cycling (PPG13 para.4)(PPS1 para.27’v’) (Community Plan p.51)
  
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  Give priority to people over ease of traffic movement, and provide more road space to pedestrians, cyclists and public transport (PPG13 para.6).
  
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  Promote better public transport to Salford Quays across Claremont and Weaste (Claremont and Weaste Neighbourhood Plan – Statement 2).
  
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  People will not leave their cars at home unless they are confident that they can find a toilet at public transport interchanges and in city centres. Disabled people, too, need to know that transport facilities, services and infrastructure will be accessible (Improving Public Access to Better Quality Toilets p16).
  
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  Create green boulevards to reconnect Salford Central’s neighbourhoods and transform Chapel Street into a boulevard, reducing the number of lanes and adding on—street parking, public transport priority routes removing barriers between lands and enhancing the streetscape and widening pavements (Central Salford Planning Guidance Policy SC5)(Salford Central Development Framework).
  
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  EU target to bring about a shift in transport use from road to rail, water and public passenger transport so that the share of road transport in 2010 is no greater than in 1998 (A Sustainable Europe for a Better World)
  

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  Reduce levels of congestion by increasing use of public transport and reducing peak traffic volumes (NW RES p.40)
  
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  Enhance public transport services between Liverpool/Manchester/Central Lancashire/Leeds/Sheffield (NW RES p.40)
  
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  Ensure the city regions critical infrastructure will sustain our economic growth (covers both infrastructure and transport KPI: % of non-car morning peak journeys to the Regional Centre from 62% (2007) to 65.9%(MAA Building Block 7 p81)