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STPR2 - Transport Scotland’s Second Strategic Transport Projects Review

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  1. fimm
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    https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/may/14/city-with-a-female-face-how-modern-vienna-was-shaped-by-women

    "Like most European cities then and now, Vienna was being designed by male planners for men like them: going between home and work, by car or public transport, at mostly set times. There was no accounting for unpaid labour such as childcare or shopping, carried out mostly by women, in many short journeys on foot during the day...They designed cities like there would be no other people than men going to work in the morning and coming back in the evening – everything else in between, they kind of had no idea... "

    The linked article is fairly long and discusses the subtleties better than a single quote.

    I link because this is why the gender/age/race/ability of respondents to surveys is important.

    Thank you to unhurt and Arellcat for making my points about privilege etc better than I can.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  2. neddie
    Member

    They designed cities like there would be no other people than men going to work in the morning and coming back in the evening

    This pretty much describes Edinburgh. Or almost any British town for that matter :(

    Posted 4 years ago #

  3. chdot
    Admin

    “I link because this is why the gender/age/race/ability of respondents to surveys is important.”

    Yes.

    Perhaps all respondents ticking male should be subject to some form of weighting to ‘balance’ the last hundred years or so...

    Posted 4 years ago #

  4. LaidBack
    Member

    Running even a modest business fitting people to bikes means you learn a lot about how varied a world we live in.

    I've stayed clear of posting on this thread - reading and learning. Sure I am not alone.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  5. chdot
    Admin

    “Sure I am not alone”

    Never alone on CCE

    Posted 4 years ago #

  6. gembo
    Member

    Interesting article on Vienna, similar to cities that have managed good cycling infra the politicians stuck to a line over 30 years rather than scrapping progressive policies. Also where we have explored the idea of equality with women and men both being able to drive single occupant vehicles into the city the Viennese appear to have rejected this phallocentric approach and used urban planning to create areas where the pedestrian rules.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  7. Frenchy
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    "Phase 1 recommendations" of STPR2 announced today. These are, apparently, going to be delivered over the next 3 years.

    Proposed interventions include:

    Intervention 1 -Development and delivery of Active Freeways
    Intervention 2 -Expansion of 20mph zones
    Intervention 7 -Reallocation of roadspace for active travel
    Intervention 9 -Development of Glasgow ‘Metro’and Edinburgh Mass Transit strategies
    Intervention 12 -Infrastructure to provide access for all at railstations

    But also, of course:

    Intervention 17 -Investment in the trunk road network asset

    Posted 3 years ago #

  8. jonty
    Member

    is an Active Freeway a Scottish Cycle Superhighway?

    Posted 3 years ago #

  9. chdot
    Admin

    “

    Example of an Active Freeway

    “

    https://www.transport.gov.scot/media/49052/stpr2-phase-1-ast-project-1-active-freeways-3-feb-2021.pdf

    Posted 3 years ago #

  10. Frenchy
    Member

    That seems to be the gist:

    Active Freeways will connect city and town centres to outlying neighbourhoods, and to other major trip attractors.

    They will focus on high-demand travel corridors and on improving connections to communities for which transport exclusion is currently prevalent.

    They will deliver high-quality, direct and segregated routes for people walking, wheeling and cycling.

    Improved local connections from the main Active Freeway routes will ensure that people are able to access them from their homes, schools, workplaces and other destinations.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  11. chdot
    Admin

    “

    4 The Strategic Rationale
    Transport Scotland has set a strong policy framework for the promotion of active travel, including in its Active Travel Vision, Active Travel Outcomes Framework and NTS2. Through Places for Everyone funding, it is supporting the development of high-quality segregated cycling and walking routes at locations in Scotland’s towns and cities where local needs and opportunities are identified. The 2020 Programme for Government supported this outcome further, with a commitment of over £500M of funding for active travel infrastructure and supporting measures over the next five years.

    Cabinet Secretary for Transport, Michael Matheson: “the task was now to ‘lock-in’ positive changes in travel behaviour. "This is why we have committed to invest over £500m in active travel over the next five years. By improving our match-funding offer for permanent infrastructure at the same time, it will help our local authorities make some of the temporary changes permanent where appropriate”.

    “

    Posted 3 years ago #

  12. toomanybikes
    Member

    @chdot interesting driving heatmap on page 6. Buckstone, Duddingston, Blackford & Blackhall alleged hotspots for driving into centre. Although limited sample size is probably a key driver of those being hotspots, closing Holyrood Park to cars would presumably instantly fix one of them.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  13. Morningsider
    Member

    As you were:

    In many instances, Active Freeways may require reallocation of roadspace away from other modes. Where this is the case, designs will be handled carefully in order to balance the sometimes conflicting aspirations for improved active travel routes with those for bus priority, local access and servicing, and minimisation of traffic pollution and congestion.

    It's those congestion causing cycle lanes again...

    Posted 3 years ago #

  14. acsimpson
    Member

    @Morningsider. Are you sure they aren't talking about an aspiration for congestion?

    Posted 3 years ago #

  15. Morningsider
    Member

    @acsimpson - I hadn't thought about that. I do have a rather jaundiced view of any talk of designs that aim to "balance" the needs of cyclists with other modes.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  16. chdot
    Admin

    “I do have a rather jaundiced view of any talk of designs that aim to "balance" the needs of cyclists with other modes.“

    Ditto.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  17. chdot
    Admin

    Detailed coverage here -

    https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/transport/edinburghs-two-shelved-tram-lines-could-be-revived-3123323

    Of course lots of ‘aspiration’ and need for money. but strong local political support for things ‘we’ want to see.

    “

    Edinburgh City Council’s SNP transport convener Lesley Macinnes said: “The progress of mass rapid transit is key to our forthcoming City Mobility Plan, supporting people to make convenient, sustainable transport choices as well as connecting to areas of future growth.

    "Support in this report for reallocation of road space for walking and cycling, expanding on work through our Spaces for People project, City Centre Transformation and our ongoing, ambitious active travel programme, will help us create a truly people-friendly city.”

    Karen Doran, the council’s Labour vice convener, said: “We’re already focusing on a great many schemes to support sustainable transport, from measures to prioritise public transport and investing in trams to Newhaven to major cycling and walking improvements around the Capital.

    “The themes and recommendations within this report very much reflect and bolster our own aspirations to encourage modal shift away from private car journeys, responding to the climate emergency, minimising air pollution and supporting healthy lifestyles.

    "We look forward to working with Transport Scotland to progress the recommendations, to the benefit of the city.”

    Transport Secretary Michael Matheson said: “We are conducting a thorough, evidence-based review of the performance of Scotland’s strategic transport network across active travel [walking, cycling and wheeling], bus, ferry, rail and the trunk road network.

    “

    Posted 3 years ago #

  18. chdot
    Admin

    Not Scotland obviously, but relevant -

    “

    “We want half of all journeys and towns and cities to be cycled or walked by 2030,” Transport Secretary Grant Shapps told the U.K. parliament’s transport committee in a remotely held meeting earlier today.

    Yesterday the under Secretary of State Rachel Maclean said similar in a written answer, claiming the government had a “vision for half of all journeys in towns and cities to be cycled or walked by 2030.”

    “

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2021/02/03/half-of-all-urban-journeys-must-be-cycled-or-walked-within-ten-years-confirms-uk-government/

    Posted 3 years ago #

  19. gembo
    Member

    @CHdot, is it wrong for me to want Grant Shapps to have a summit meeting at Shap Summit?

    Posted 3 years ago #

  20. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    In the middle of the M6. Make it so.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  21. chdot
    Admin

    “is it wrong for me“

    Does it fit your philosophy?

    Posted 3 years ago #

  22. gembo
    Member

    Yes it does I prefer to ask for forgiveness rather than permission

    Posted 3 years ago #

  23. Rob
    Member

    A dutch style "cars as guests" cycle route from the A90 out via Kirkliston/Winchburgh (as previously discussed here) could fit the description of an Active Freeway which balances needs for local access.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  24. chdot
    Admin

    “dutch style "cars as guests" “

    Are these not usually short/local?

    Posted 3 years ago #

  25. Frenchy
    Member

    PoP has been looking at what little detail has been given.

    £50m over 5 years for the "Active Freeways".

    £50m buys you approximately 50km of protected cycleway.

    So one, maybe two CCWEL-style projects per year.

    Posted 3 years ago #

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