Transcript Slide 1

Road Task Force - context
• £30bn over the next 20 years to
accommodate population growth of an
additional 1.7m to around 10m by 2031
• Need to tackle congestion
• Competing demands for road space from
different road users
• Need to create
an 21st centuary liveable city
predicated on economic growth
supported by a future-proofed, smooth and
seamlessly integrated and sustainable
urban transport system.
Roads need to fulfil different functions
Moving
Living
Unlocking
Functioning
Protecting
Sustaining
A broad range of tools needs to be used
Infrastructure
and assets fit
for the future
Intelligent
systems and
management
Substitute /
re-located
/enhanced
capacity
More efficient
/ flexible use
of space
Changing
behaviour /
managing
demand
Bringing the strategy together
World class city centre: more pedestrian space, iconic
schemes, 20mph zone, high-quality cycling infrastructure,
summer streets, temporary plazas, ultra-low emissions zone,
freight consolidation
Outer London: congestion hotspot busting, traffic signal
technology, junction improvements, shifting some shorter
journeys from car to cycling and walking, traffic calming eg in
town centres, enforcement where it matters most, potential tolled
tunnels as replacement road capacity
Major growth areas: Junction improvements and new links eg river
crossings, public transport capacity, potential roofing over major
roads, village-style streets in new developments for buses,
walking, cycling and freight access, embedding walking and
cycling in new developments
1. Adopt the RTF’s Vision and 3 aims
At least £30bn is
needed over the next 20 years.
This is a comparable level of
investment to that made in the
vital Tube and rail networks
The Mayor adopts the core principle that
the strategy must deliver overall against
all three aims:
• transforming conditions for walking,
cycling and public transport;
• delivering better, active and inclusive
places and new city destinations; and
• Maintaining an efficient road network
for movement and access.
2. A bold approach is needed
The need to be even bolder to achieve this
ambition and make use of tools that have not
been fully applied, including demand
management and new/improved infrastructure.
This will entail making choices in particular
locations – it will not be possible to cater
fully or equally for everyone, everywhere, at
the same time.
TfL, working with boroughs and other
stakeholders, should undertake initial
feasibility studies into the potential for applying
these strategic measures within London.
In the interim, a plan for the Inner Ring Road
must be developed as a matter of
urgency, given the cumulative development
pressures.
3. Improve governance & standards
TfL and other organisations involved in
the management and planning of streets
have fit for purpose culture, governance
and resources to deliver this vision.
This will require changes
to be made to how things are
done, as well as what is done.
An agreed framework, key performance
standards and designation of an initial set
of roads should be completed before the
end of 2014. Ahead of this there should be
early piloting with boroughs keen to adopt
this framework
4. Innovate
Tools implemented should be
innovative supported by. an innovation
fund with the aim of starting five pilot
schemes by the end of 2014.
TfL should promote ‘smart’ city mobility
and network management and
planning, using cutting edge
technology, new data sources and
communicate with road users in real
time and in new ways to deliver
benefits for reliability, customer
experience, safety and the
environment
TfL should set out a list of regulatory
changes to overcome existing barriers
– linking with the Government’s Red
5. Enhance evaluation and review
TfL should enhance its evaluation
of schemes and monitoring of
what is happening on the road
network.
This should include
monitoring of both wider
network conditions and the
impacts of specific interventions
designed to deliver the vision.
There should be an annual
review of progress against the
aims and recommendations
set out in this report.
6. Engagement for action
Begin a wider programme of
engagement with Londoners and
stakeholders (representing all
interests) about the future of
London’s streets and roads.
This should include new of
engaging and involving people,
and increasing understanding
about the challenges and
trade-offs, and the need for action.
Delivering the
vision for
London's streets
and roads
Transport for London’s
response to the Roads Task
Force
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Immediate operational challenges
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Accommodate large-scale new
developments in growth areas across the
Capital, in particular those situated on the
inner ring road circle of growth. Investing
£500m to transform more > 20 locations
across the network incl. Elephant and
Castle, Old Street, and Waterloo
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Support business’s freight and logistical
requirements
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Facilitate large scale events and world class
spectacles
• Plus... support a growing population
over the longer term and unlocking new
and currently less accessible sites with the
potential to accommodate this population
growth.
Implementing the RTF’s recommendations
will:
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... Tackle congestion
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Improving traffic management with the
installation of 1,500 SCOOT sites
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Targeting trouble spots - more than 1,200
local physical improvement schemes
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Combining asset renewal and
replacement with highway improvements
to minimise disruption
... Simplify the engagement & collaboration process
between TfL and boroughs and developers to deliver
schemes both on the TLRN and borough roads including:
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clearer communication of processes, expected timings
for approvals and criteria for decisions & decision
makers
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Setting out the key points-of-contact, account managers
and individual senior champions other local authority
processes for best practice, including Planning
Performance Agreement (PPA) service level
agreements
- Introducing the use of TfL sponsors, as currently
exercised by LUL - to achieve desired outcomes with a
smooth delivery
... Other short-medium measure include
- Tackling 30 specific bus route pinch
points,
- The first Quietway route delivered by end
2014,
- 30 key junctions to make them
safer, particularly for cyclists,
pedestrians and motorcyclists,
- New tree planting – more than
1,000 additional trees on TLRN,
- 120 electric vehicles in TfL
support fleet by 2016,
... Ensure assets are fit for the future
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Delivering a universally high standard of
maintenance across all TfL’s assets
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Repairing and overhauling 1,800
structures and 12 tunnels by 2021/22
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Enhancing the inspection regime to
improve performance of utility
companies
Developing our capability
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Invest in developing smart network technology and operational modelling
capability, to maintain our position as a world leader in this field
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Build on the recently mobilised London Highways Alliance Contracts (LoHAC),
which provides an important building block to TfL’s ability to deliver the RTF
vision for London’s roads
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A new generation of skilled technical operatives
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Better engage our stakeholders in the
development of our plans
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Work with the relevant government
departments to allow and agree change, and
lobby at both national and European level. To
this end, and following the RTF’s
recommendation, we have developed a list of
key regulatory changes needed from national
and European government that we will
ceaselessly promote
Inner Ring Road study
Assess how to balance overall
and locally the many ambitions
at different places on and
around the IRR, while
maintaining the strategic moving
function of the IRR.
This would include the feasibility
of flyunders or replacement
capacity further out and
management of traffic accessing
Central London.