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

More efficient /

flexible use of space

Changing behaviour /

managing demandSubstitute /

re-located /enhanced capacity

Bringing the strategy togetherWorld 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 aimsAt least £30bn isneeded over the next 20 years.This is a comparable level ofinvestment to that made in thevital 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 neededThe 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 caterfully 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 ofurgency, given the cumulative development pressures.

3. Improve governance & standardsTfL and other organisations involved in the management and planning of streets have fit for purpose culture, governanceand resources to deliver this vision.

This will require changesto be made to how things aredone, 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. InnovateTools 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 Tape Challenge.

5. Enhance evaluation and review

TfL should enhance its evaluationof schemes and monitoring ofwhat is happening on the roadnetwork.

This should includemonitoring of both widernetwork conditions and theimpacts of specific interventionsdesigned to deliver the vision.

There should be an annualreview of progress against theaims and recommendationsset 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 forLondon's streets and roads

Transport for London’s response to the Roads Task Force

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Immediate operational challenges• 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

• Support business’s freight and logistical requirements

• 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:-

... Tackle congestion• Improving traffic management with the

installation of 1,500 SCOOT sites

• Targeting trouble spots - more than 1,200 local physical improvement schemes

• Combining asset renewal and replacement with highway improvements to minimise disruption

... Simplify the engagement & collaboration process between TfL and boroughs and developers to deliverschemes both on the TLRN and borough roads including:

- clearer communication of processes, expected timings for approvals and criteria for decisions & decision makers

- 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

• Delivering a universally high standard of maintenance across all TfL’s assets

• Repairing and overhauling 1,800 structures and 12 tunnels by 2021/22

• Enhancing the inspection regime to improve performance of utility companies

Developing our capability• Invest in developing smart network technology and operational modelling

capability, to maintain our position as a world leader in this field

• 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

• A new generation of skilled technical operatives

• Better engage our stakeholders in the development of our plans

• 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.