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HOTWELLSe x CLIFTONWOOD COMMUNITY TRAFFIC STRATEGY
SUSTAINABLE TRAFFIC MASTERPLAN
A FRAMEWORK FOR DEVELOPMENT OF SUSTAINABLE NEIGHBOURHOODS
FINAL VERSION- APRIL 2010
CONSULTATION
DRAFT - FEB2009 v1.0a
CLIENT
CLiFTONWOOD B HOTWELLS ACTION
FOR A SUSTAINABLE
ENVIRONMENT (CHASE)
HOTWELLS B CLiFTONWOOD COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION (HBCCA)
CONCEPTS
RICHARD WALKER
DESIGN
PAUL WALKER-JONES
©2010
HOTWELLSB CLiFTONWOOD COMMUNITY TRAFFIC STRATEGY
AIMS8: OBJECTIVES
FINAL VERSION APRIL 2010
The Hotwells and Clihonwood community, like other inner urban communities, suffers from
high levels of commuter through traffic and its negative impacts.
By contrast, local people are relatively low car users as they live within walking and
cycling distance of the city centre and its amenities.
Unfortunately increased traffic, poor design and management of highways and streets
and lack of investment have created a situation of significant environmental injustice where
local journeys and our freedoms of movement, safety and activities are compromised.
It appears that the needs of car driving commuters from outside Bristol are put ahead of
those of local people making local journeys and the wider life quality of local residents.
This has led to damage and ongoing constraints not just to our local environment but
also to our economy and community.
The aim of this strategy is to identify a set of actions across the whole area that reduce
risks, minimise congestion, allow us to reclaim our streets and help us to become a more balanced and sustainable community. However, it also aims to deliver reduced congestion and improvements to through traffic flows by seeking a rationalisation of the main route network.
The linked issues of parking and controlled parking zones are beyond the scope of this strategy. It aims to be fully independent of these issues. However, while not addressing parking it does seek a coherent set of actions that will stop dangerous and
inappropriate parking on corners and on pavements and improve emergency
vehicle access to residential streets.
The aims can be summarised as;
'C ?Get beyond highways accident statistics that do not
show the distorting effects of dangers on our
movements around our neighbourhood.
'C ?Identify constructive ways to reduce obstructions
and manage the specific dangers and the impacts
of traffic.
'C ?Better accommodate at least the current volumes of
through flow traffic.
'C ?Promote and enable changes to local transport
infrastructure to encourage regeneration and
sustainable (low car dependant) development of key
sites.
'C ?Develop and promote proposals that are fully
independent of any residential parking scheme
proposals.
HOTWELLSa CLiFTONWOOD COMMUNITY TRAFFIC STRATEGY
METHOD
FINAL VERSION APRIL 2010
This Traffic Strategy is an initiative of CHASE, it was first agreed at its meeting in April 0 7.
In initial reply (late Autumn 2007) over 120 had been completed and returned
covering almost all streets. These have been map plotted in terms of:-
The intention being to develop a comprehensive, area-wide proposal that would avoid
the risk and perception that demands for improvements
in one neighbourhood
would end
up being at the expense of surrounding neighbourhoods.
route of identified local journeys colour coded by modes of travel and
The proposal agreed at the April 0 7 meeting was to start with a participatory
mapping
exercise seeking descriptions of people's common local journeys and their
identification
of danger spots/problems
and obstructions
dangers identified in terms of specific junctions/crossings
and also linear
issues raised.
A simple one sheet questionnaire (with freepost return) was drawn up and inserted into
the Summer 2007 Hotwells & Cliftonwood
News which was distributed to every home
across the whole community.
The resulting traffic map, an update report on the top ten traffic hotspots identified
by local people and proposed actions to address through traffic flow problems
was discussed and agreed at the December 2007 CHASE meeting.
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Will you please help us build a Community Traffic Strategy
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A Traffic Strategy Update was then included in the Spring 2008 Hotwells &
Cliftonwood
News that identified the top ten Traffic Hotspots as well as four
substantial improvements to local main roads to address the fundamental
cause-
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being miss-directed off the main roads through
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The Draft Strategy was produced in February
2009 and exhibited in the Create Centre for
a week. Access details were posted online, a
further public meeting was held and
responses to the Draft, both verbal and
written, were received. Those reactions with
significant support have been incorporated
into this final version or have altered parts of
the Draft Strategy such that there is now a
confidence that this Strategy has an overall
approval rating among local respondents of
88%. It is now the intention to engage with
officers and members of the Council and any
other relevant authorities to try and secure
action on the hotspots but also on the
inter-linked improvement
programmes to
the area's main roads.
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