Why does transport matter?
What are the options for more sustainable transport in
Cambridge?
How do people travel around Cambridge?
• Can you write down all the ways in which people travel around the city of Cambridge?
• Then add to this list, what are the provisions for them, and their type of transport?
How are people catered for?
• Free bike parks• Park and ride schemes• Free bus at the weekend (around
Christmas time, route around the very centre of the city)
• Plenty of parking garages• Main bus station in the city centre
1.03 Gha transport footprint
• In Cambridge, a person’s transport footprint is quite high: it is the 7th highest out of the 60 cities in the WWF survey!)
• Is this surprising, considering the view of Cambridge as a city where people cycle?
• Transport is thought to be one of the ways in which cities can reduce their eco-footprint quite quickly, depending on the initiative.
Cars are the main problem
• 72% of Uk households own at least one car
• There are over 22 million cars on the roads
• Cars pollute with their exhausts, clog up roads with traffic jams and use valuable raw materials in their construction, and in the construction of roads.
what is the future?
• For the period up to year 2016 proposes that 50,000 new jobs will be created and about 42,000 new homes built in the Cambridge sub-region. This will be accompanied by a substantial growth in travel demand.
• The already congested and under-funded transport system will be unable to cope unless there is major investment. Cambridgeshire County Council has estimated that £1bn needs to be spent on transport.
• http://www.cambridgefutures.org/index.htm
What are the options for Cambridge?
• Trams/guided bus way• Bus lanes• Congestion charging e.g. in London
there has been a 21% fall in traffic in the zone, 45% rise in bus passengers, 43% increase in the number of cyclists
• Park and ride schemes
What are the options for Cambridge?
• Read the document given to you, detailing the range of options currently being considered for Cambridge.
• Fill in the decision making exercise in your booklet to explain what you think would be the best option for Cambridge for the future transport.
Sustainable transport in Cambridge.
• What options did you choose?• How are these economic and socially
sustainable?