Portsmouth Inspiration Study

Portsmouth Inspiration Study A2047 London Road ‘This Inspiration Study is a little opportunity to think BIG about how to make walking and cycling easy, attractive, and safe for everybody.’

October 2018

Project: Portsmouth Inspiration Study Client: Cycling UK Document: Inspiration Study Status: Final Date: 2st November, 2018 Reference: 107724/18-016.824 Project code: 107724 Project Lead: Jess Read Project Director: Martijn Akkerman Author(s): Jess Read, Amanda Gregor Checked by: Martijn Akkerman Approved by: Jess Read Initials

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Portsmouth is a vibrant and growing coastal city with big city challenges of congestion and air pollution.

What do we need to do to ensure Portsmouth stays an attractive place to live, work, visit and study?

Can we tackle congestion and air pollution to help the city thrive? Š CC BY-SA 4.0 3

→ 36% of children in Portsmouth show indications of potential metabolic disease.

→ Children and babies in Portsmouth smoke equivalent of 550 cigarettes/year due to air pollution.

References: Public Health Outcomes Framework (2018) 2.06ii. Available at: https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/public-health-outcomesframework/data#page/0/gid/1000042/pat/6/par/E12000008/ati/102/are/E06000044 Particulate Matter PM2.5s for 12.28ug/m3 annual mean, London Road C2 (Portsmouth City Council, 2018) Air Quality Annual Status Report.

Cigarette reference is a crude estimate only based on Pope et al. (2009); This assumption is based on legal levels of PM2.5s only.

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Most of Portsmouth lies within cycling distance of the city centre, and there is great potential for local walking.

Note: these dotted lines represent as-the-crowflies isochrones, which give us a quick overview of the potential for walking and cycling.

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The A2047 is a 5km/3mi northsouth corridor which has community as well as transport importance: + Community assets (shops, cafes, bus stops) + Proximity to local residential areas and city centre + Existing public transport routes + Interesting architecture - Congestion - High air pollution - Traffic safety issues - Inconsistent footway quality

A main high street section runs for 450m from Stubbington Avenue to Kingston Crescent, however the high street/community character extends beyond this to the north and south.

- Lack of cycling infrastructure - Lack of green space Portsmouth Inspiration Study: London Road A2047

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International Benchmarks

Portsmouth - current (216,000 population)

Eindhoven, Netherlands (210,000 population) public transport 5%

public transport 12%

cycling 8%

Freiburg, Germany (210,000 population) public transport 16% car use 42%

car use 60%

walking 17%

car use 21%

cycling 40%

Healthy transport = 37%

walking 13%

Healthy transport = 58%

cycling 34%

walking 29%

Healthy transport = 79%

Portsmouth - future proofed* public transport 22%

car use 33%

Healthy transport = 67% cycling 18%

walking 27%

References: Population and projected growth to 2028, Office of National Statistics (2018). Data for Portsmouth modal share derived from Census 2011. Data for Eindhoven and Freiburg from http://www.epomm.eu/. The “future-proofed� scenario assumes 1% modal shift per year over a decade each respectively to walking, cycling, and public transport, with a corresponding decrease in car use modal share.

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High Level Capacity Analysis - modal shift London Road A2047 → 12,000 vehicles per day Add walking and bus passengers → 22,000 people per day Allow for 5% projected growth to 2028 Current* Mode Cars OGVs HGVs Public Transport Walking Cycling Total

Trips 10,923 1,138 53 5,327 4,450 359 22,251

Healthy transport

5% growth Trips 49% 11,469 5% 1,195 0% 56 24% 5,594 20% 4,673 2% 377 100% 23,363

Futureproofed** Trips 49% 4,356 5% 1,195 0% 56 24% 7,944 20% 7,009 2% 2,804 100% 23,363

19% 5% 0% 34% 30% 12% 100%

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Population and projected growth to 2028, Office of National Statistics (2018). Data for Portsmouth modal share derived from Census 2011. The ‘future-proofed’ scenario assumes 1% modal shift per year over a decade each respectively to walking, cycling, and public transport, with a corresponding decrease in car use modal share. Please see following pages for more detailed assumptions.

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Existing:

View north from Kingston Crescent towards the Tap pub/Chichester Avenue

Image: Google Streetview

Is your child safe spending time on this High Street?

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Proposed → Healthy Transport Corridor

View north towards the Tap pub View north from Kingston Crescent towards the Tap pub/Chichester Road

‘This is a High Street we can all share!’

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Proposed → Healthy Transport Corridor More movement and more place.

Improve walkability with zebra crossings and continuous level crossings Connections parallel cycle street → Asset zones on road side e.g.

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Add continuous level footway cross-overs 5.

Improve crossings by using zebra crossings at 80m intervals Clear material wayfinding Remove street clutter and consolidate 6. street assets (bins, lighting etc)

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Material wayfinding

Add placemaking elements e.g. parklets, seating, planting, trees, cycle parking where space allows (i.e. using one traffic lane) Raised loading bays which extend the footway when not in use

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Remove street clutter Retain 2 lanes for bus and cycles Reduce speed to <12 mph Remove centre line Add visual narrowing/rumble strips Clear waymarking to parallel cycle network 11

Typical Cross Section @ London Road / Kingston Crescent looking north Existing

Proposed

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Parallel ‘Cycle Street’

Healthy High Street Fratton Park Football Stadium

City Centre

Fratton Train Station

Routing Diagram (Indicative) Portsmouth Inspiration Study: London Road A2047

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Full specification parallel Cycle Street â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a safe space for everyone.

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Fullspecification specificationCycle parallel Cycle – a safe for everyone.

Full Street – aStreet safe space for space everyone.

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High Level Capacity Analysis â&#x20AC;&#x201C; displacement & modal shift Scenario A - Healthy High Street Mode Cars, total displacement OGVs, - 50% ecargo HGVs, same PT +50% Walking +50% Cycling +50% & 50% light freight Cycle Street, parallel M275 A2030 A288

Healthy transport

Trips

Share

0 598 56 8,391 7,009

0% 3% 0% 36% 30%

1,163 3,000 1,000 1,000 1,000 23,216

5% 13% 4% 4% 4% 100%

Scenario B - Transition Healthy High Street Mode Trips Share Cars, 65% displacement 4,014 17% OGVs, - 50% ecargo 598 2% HGVs - same 56 0% PT +50% 8,391 35% Walking +50% 7,009 29% Cycling +50% & 50% light freight 1,163 5% Cycle Street, parallel 3,000 12% M275 0 0% A2030 0 0% A288 0 0% 24,230 100%

84% Healthy transport

Scenario C - Max Healthy High Street Mode

Trips

Cars, total sovereignty 0 Existing598 OGVs, - 50% ecargo HGVs - same 56 PT +75% 9,789 Walking +75% 8,177 Cycling +50% & 50% light freight 1,257 Cycle Street, parallel 3,000 M275 0 A2030 0 A288 0 22,877

81% Healthy transport

Share 0% 2% 0% 40% 34% 5% 12% 0% 0% 0% 94% 92%

Reference 23,363 total trips allowing for 5% increase to 2028.

Displacement onto rail is not assessed.

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High Level Capacity Analysis â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Key Assumptions Overall Mode Share - Modal share taken from Census 2011, QS701EW Method of travel to work, as a proxy for total transport modal share. Therefore of total respondents (153,705), unemployed and working from home were excluded, resulting in a sample of 93,339. Under- ground, metro, light rail, tram, train, bus, minibus or coach are combined as public transport.

- Future proofing is based on 1% modal share increase per year respectively for walking, cycling and public transport over 1 decade, with a resultant net reduction in car modal share.

Street Level - Street level transport data was derived from a CCTV traffic count survey conducted on London Road in August 2018.

- This survey data corrected with 8.5% August bias, derived from National Travel Survey NTS0506 (DfT, 2018).

- Walking modal share derived from Census data for Portsmouth (17%) but corrected for overall transport bias that Census data underrepresent overall walking levels; this still may be a risk of underestimate in a high street setting where there may be higher levels of walking.

- Buses and coaches occupancy estimated as 40 seats per vehicle operating at 25% capacity.

- 5% growth is presumed to 2028 (ONS, 2018).

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Scenario A - Healthy High Street In this scenario, no private motorised vehicles would access the high street meaning a daily reduction of 11,469 car journeys through the high street. Through-journeys would covered in part by a modal shift onto a parallel cycle street, and in part by journey displacement to other existing arterial roads (M275, A2030, A288). Local journeys are converted into 50% more bus journeys, 50% more walking, and 50% more cycling. HGVs remain the same, but 50% of light freight (OGVs) is displaced onto e-cargo cycles. Overall, there is an increase in healthy transport from 46% to 84%.

Scenario B - Transition Healthy High Street This scenario explores a transitional phase to the full Healthy High Street where initially 4,014 private vehicles are permitted, for example by allowing access during off peak times only. In this phase, theoretically no car displacement is needed to the other existing arterial roads (M275, A2030, A288), as the other 65% of vehicle journeys are covered through a modal shift to the parallel cycle street, and increases in pubic transport and walking journeys. This still represents a substantial increase in healthy transport to 81% Scenario C â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Max In this ultimate sovereignty scenario, there are larger modal shifts to buses and walking, which together with the parallel cycle street achieve a total of >90% healthy transport.

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Routing Concept

Enhanced Junction

London Road A2047

Headline concepts: + Prioritise the high street â&#x2020;&#x2019; people. + High flow, low speed environment <12mph. + Reduce to two lanes two way, bus traffic. + Traffic exclusion 24 hours or at peak times. + Visual narrowing on road, remove centre line, upgrade character of surface material. + Assets zone, declutter, unify footway. + Four raised level zebra crossings. + Parallel cycle street as main through route for cycling. + Upgrade secondary junctions to continuous level footways.

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Raised level Zebra crossings

Parallel Cycle Street Full specification, safe cycling for everyone

Chichester Road

Kingston Road

Kingston Crescent Additional considerations: + Alternative: bus traffic one way, to free one lane for bidirectional cycle track. + Potential to convert A2047 north and south of this area to 2 lane vehicle/bus traffic, 2 lane cycle traffic. + Potential to upgrade northern section Copnor Road A288 with cycle tracks.

Stubbington Avenue

Connect to Fratton, East-West cycle route

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London Road → A++ Healthy Transport Corridor Quality approach combined with…

…an Operational approach.

+ Prioritise the High Street experience.

+ Reduce to two lanes, two directions, bus priority.

+ Create assets zone with trees, seating, cycle parking, loading, disabled parking. + Declutter, consolidate assets in assets zone. + Add substantial cycle parking to facilitate east/west arrivals. + Add more frequent east/west zebra crossings, upgrade major junctions at Stubbington Ave and Kingston Crescent. + Remove barriers such as ‘cattle pens’ at pedestrian crossings. + Create an enabling and pleasant environment for more vulnerable users such as children, older adults or disabled people.

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+ Change road visual character, e.g. red bus surfacing but remove centre line, adding visual narrowing → low speed environment. + Main cycle through-traffic on parallel cycle street environment.

+ Local north-south cycling limited, in low speed, bus priority environment. + Traffic exclusion order to exclude private vehicle use (peak times, or 24 hour) + Loading at set times.

+ Transfer light freight (vans) onto e-cargo bikes.

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C Vans unload here early morning/evening, available for footfall during day.

Raised Level Loading Bays, Camden High Street Portsmouth Inspiration Study: London Road A2047

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Child cyclists are over 15 safer per mile cycled in the Netherlands compared to the UK. Continuous level footway crossovers are key to providing greater safety for both cyclists and pedestrians.

Continuous level footways crossovers on side junctions.

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Material Details

+ Consistent material wayfinding. + Reasonable cost materials that can be maintained within standard maintenance operations.

Option 1 – ‘Dutch brick’ + Carriageway material - brick coloured asphalt similar to existing bus lane highlighting ‘healthy transport corridor’. + Cobbled visual narrowing/rumble strips.

Option 2 – ‘Oxford orange’ + Carriageway material orange-tone asphalt that gives a heritage feel. + Cobbled visual narrowing/rumble strips.

‘Pedestrian yellow’ + Footway material - yellowtone asphalt that gives a heritage feel. + Clear visual language for pedestrian priority over crossings.

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Contact: Duncan Dollimore CyclingUK Duncan.dollimore@CyclingUK.org

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