CYCLING TOWNS AND CITIES OF THE FUTURE SHARING THE EXAMPLES OF BEST PRACTICE

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CYCLING TOWNS AND CITIES OF THE FUTURE SHARING
THE EXAMPLES OF BEST PRACTICE
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• Cycle England set up a Cycling Towns of the
  Future project, with 6 demonstration towns
  Aylesbury, Exeter, Lancaster, Derby, Darlington
  and Brighton and Hove, sharing a budget of 17m.
• Projects combining capital and revenue schemes
  that helped boost levels of cycling. This
  generally involved establishing and promoting a
  network of cycle routes, mixing hard and soft
  measures in varying proportions.

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Types of Infrastructure

• Shared use of improved footways
• Cycling freeways and boulevards
• Signage
• Advanced stop lines
• Bridges
• Toucan crossings
• Priority crossings over side roads for shared use
  footways
• Zoned and timed works programme
• Allowing cycling in pedestrianised areas

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Promotion

• Giving the network its identity colour coding
  and signage
• Publicity materials (maps, leaflets, web pages)
• Working with employers and schools (Bike It!)
• Working with communities (Health on Wheels an
  exercise referral scheme, community grants)
• Personalised Travel Plans
• Road Safety and cycle training at schools, cycle
  maintenance training
• Website and media coverage
• Events

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Establishing a network Aylesbury and Darlington

• A network of mainly traffic free, colour-coded
  routes, with associated promotional material
  route map and individual route leaflets, branding
  and signage, including distances in minutes.
• Darlingtons research into travel choices showed
  overestimating time for cycle journeys, and
  underestimating it for car journeys.

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Successes With Development
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Aylesburys Success Measure

• Cycling to School up 115
• Cycling to Business survey up 49
• Travel to Stations survey up 22.5

• Tripled the number of people cycling
• Cycling now main mode of transport for over 10
  of residents

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Brighton and Hove Coordinated Principles

• Engineering
• - Cycle Freeways
• - Advanced Stop lines
• Promotion
• - Personalised Travel Planning
• Bike It
• Workplace Travel Planning
• JourneyOn Events and Campaign

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Cycle Freeways

• - A Continuous Route
• Boulevard
• Forming part of NCN
• Approved
• Works start in Jan 08
• Part of a north/south route
• linking the Downs to the sea-
• front via Hove
• Northern Section works on the
• ground and underway

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Advanced Stop Lines (ASLs)
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Infrastructure
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Being Bold
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A Coordinated Programme
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• Personalised and Work Travel Plans (Brighton and
  Hove)
• 10,000 households (25,000 people)
• 6 decrease in Car Trips
• 500, 000 fewer car trips
• 39 increase in Walking Trips
• 825, 000 more walking trips
• 122 increase in Cycling Trips
• 175, 000 more cycling trips
• Bike it!

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Our Focus

• is the journey to work school
• Filling in the missing links in the district's
  network improving facilities to encourage
  cycling
• Promotion and publicity to encourage more people
  to cycle
• Training to increase awareness and confidence
• Working directly with schools key employers

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Where do we want to be?

• A district with a good, well signed cycle network
  where cycling is seen as a real transport choice
  as well as a leisure activity
• Complete the missing links in the network with
  connections between routes and better
  connectivity to main sites
• Continue to improve facilities to encourage
  cycling including more better parking,
  facilities for commuters and better signage
• Cyclists of all ages and types feel confident
  and aware of the local network

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What are we already doing in Leeds?

• A network of radial routes being developed
• A signing/branding system is being developed for
  these
• Work and School Travel Plans are being developed
• Road safety and cycle training
• New cycling pages will be on the website soon.
• Sustainable travel input into
• New Developments
• Traffic schemes
• Bike Week and events for schools
• Bike Buddy

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What lessons have we learnt from the CDT project?

• High level support needs to be obtained, through
  presentation of cycle plans to Councillors and
  Senior Officers
• Stronger working links are needed with Highways
  Maintenance.
• Closer working needed between officers concerned
  with infrastructure and those with training and
  promotion.

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Presentations from all 6 towns are available
from http//www.cyclingengland.co.uk/dt_cycling-to
wns-of-the-future-conference-2007.php