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Derby City’s Local Transport Plan for 2011 (LTP3)

Consultation Response

Derby Cycling Group

May, 2010

A City Designed for CyclingA City Designed for Cycling

Derby Cycling Group 2010Derby Cycling Group 2010

Presented byPresented byTony RoelichTony Roelich

Campaigns Co-ordinatorCampaigns Co-ordinator

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Our Vision for Derby• The UK’s top cycling city by 2023

• The best facilities in the country

• The greatest % of adults using their bikes as everyday transport.

• The greatest % of children cycling to school.

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Achievable?

• A strong, underlying cycling culture

• Compact urban area

• Cycle friendly geography (few big hills)

Imagine the last six years

• 29% more cyclists

• Momentum

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The Aim To get more people cycling, more safely, more often.

Why promote cycling?• Reduce congestion and pollution• Improve people’s health and fitness• Realise environmental benefits• Add value to the city

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More cycling means• More healthy people:

– A 20% increase in cycling in England by 2015 would save the NHS £246million a year

– Cycling regularly, extends life expectancy by 10 years• Safety in numbers:

– London: 30% fewer cyclist casualties in 2007 compared to 2001 despite a 90% increase in cyclists

New York CityNew York City Cyclist numbers rise 125%Cyclist numbers rise 125% from 80,000 to 180,000 per from 80,000 to 180,000 per dayday Casualties fall 50%Casualties fall 50%From 5,000 to 2,500 per yearFrom 5,000 to 2,500 per year

© 1997-2010 Transportation Alternatives© 1997-2010 Transportation Alternatives http://www.transalt.org/files/newsroom/streetbeat/2009/June/0604.html#safety_in_numbers

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What are the challenges?

• How do we get parents to allow their children to cycle?

• How do we get adults cycling for transport?

• How do we get older people to keep active and healthy?

Need new directions and new ideas

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How will we do this?Implementing procedures:• Fully integrating cycling into city planning

activities• Making transport design people centric• Implementing cycle oriented soft measures

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Derby’s Transport Networks Derby has:

• A discontinuous cycle network• Some routes and facilities dedicated to cycling • Cyclists mostly sharing the road and walking networks

Create a cycle networkto level the playing field of transport choices

• A distinct, integrated, network covering the whole city• Make delivery of this network a primary objective in LTP3

Start with

A strategic cycle network development plan.

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What is a cycle network?Lines on a map?

• Choose the right lines

• Good design

• What is built

• Mending it, keeping it clean

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Design Points

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Avoiding “Bad Stuff”

• Concept to handover – consider cycling

• Ride the route philosophy

• Day and night, sunny, rainy, and icy

• Bikes are small, but not infinitely so

• Cyclists don’t have eyes in the backs of their heads

• Training – design standards

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Cycling as Primary TransportCycling is often regarded as a Leisure Pursuit

• We must:– Regard cycling as a primary mode of transport– Aspire to a modal shift towards cycling-as-transport– Have grand ideas

• Gain modal shift by changing planning emphasis

Design the network for use by

anyone, anywhere, anytime.

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DfT: The Future of Urban Transport Section 4: Triple win solutions: the choices we must make

• p14…There is rarely a simple trade off between vehicles and other users. But … they still tend too often to be addressed separately, often by highways engineers and urban planners working in different parts of a local authority…

• …Consideration of “movement” is also too often focussed on motorised traffic, leaving the needs of cyclists and pedestrians unheeded. Those planning and managing roads need also to work closely with those managing footpaths, cycle routes and other Public Rights of Way. ..

Section 5: Vision for the Future:• p26..Part of the challenge … is that different bodies are responsible for public transport, spatial

planning, and the road network. The powers to reform transport governance are available to help tackle this problem…but no city has yet put forward a firm proposal to Government .

Section 6: Next Steps • p27…Although a range of partnerships have developed, few have yet provided sufficient

incentivisation or drive to overcome fragmentation of responsibilities … Nor has championship within authorities of the needs of walkers and cyclists been strong.

• The Government looks forward to hearing the response of city authorities …

An opportunity for Derby to forge the way ahead

Department for Transport, (The Cabinet Office Strategy Unit )3rd November, 2009http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/regional/policy/urbantransport/http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/regional/policy/urbantransport/pdf/researchreport.pdf

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Integrating Cycling into Town and Highways Planning

• Cycling – a core planning consideration

• Put leg power before engine power

• Cycle access available for resident no.1

• Percentage of parking for bicycles

• Private dwellings

• Commercial sites

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Making Highways Dept responsible for all cycle routes

How would Highways help?– Lighting on off-road paths– Road maintenance which reflects issues affecting

cyclists– Cycle path and cycle lane maintenance

– Signposting

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Cycle-Centric Design• Direct, free flowing routes

• Wide coverage; flexible routes

• No unnecessary delays

• Eliminate No-Go areas(anyone, anywhere, anytime)

Enable any journey

to be made by bike

by anyone

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Positive Discrimination• Wide area 20mph speed limits

• Restriction of vehicle speeds by road design

• Cycle by-pass at traffic calming measures

• No central islands– Replace pedestrian

islands with proper

crossings

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Soft MeasuresNon-infrastructure factors which affect levels of cycling

• Cycle training • Cycling advice• Promotion of cycle routes • Promoting the personal benefits of cycling• Engaging with cyclists

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Soft Measures

• Rigorous enforcement of road traffic law• Protecting the rights of vulnerable road users• Creating a less intimidating road environment• Reinforcing good

driving habits• Road safety campaigns • Reporting bad driving

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Protect our local expertise• Retain whole Cycle Derby organisation after 2011

• Retain combined spending on cycling after CDT– CDT funding, match funding & normal cycle allocation

• Consult stakeholders to help deliver user friendly outcomes more cheaply.

• Resist temptation to take an easy cut in the spending review– Return on Investment

(3:1 for cycling)– Levelling the playing field

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Summary• To get a City Designed for Cycling, Derby must:

– Make cycling a central element in the planning process

– Make all cycle routes part of the highway– Deliver consistently designed cycle-centric routes and

facilities– Broadcast strong messages to inform people about

cycling options

• So that anyone can cycle safely, anywhere at anytime

Backing a winner:Make spending on cycling a priority

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Vision

"I think we forget that most people are not cyclists … We need to attract people who are not like us. We have got to persuade people that they can do it too."

Philip Darnton of Cycling Englandfrom the Bristol Evening Post on 27th October, 2009

A City Designed for CyclingA City Designed for Cycling