across walkways. We await their plans with interest. Warwickshire County 1. The sentence of paragraph 1 on page 62 refers to an The SPD seeks an ambitious mode share for public Council - Planning and aspiration to achieve a high level of modal split (circa 20% to transport and future negotiations will be based on Development 30%). It might be better to phrase this as follows...an aspiration securing substantial investment to support this. to encourage a high proportion of trips to be undertaken by walk/cycle/bus and car sharing so that these modes make up Specific change to wording agreed and text updated. circa 20% to 30% of overall mode share. Whilst we would support an ambitious mode share aspiration in See above. principle, it is likely to be difficult to achieve in reality without substantial investment in bus services and financial incentives which encourage people to choose bus instead of car (e.g. through discounted ticketing). How You Move‘ is a WCC initiative which includes Car Agreed text revised. ‘Choose – Share Warwickshire which is open to the general public - please see (http://carsharewarwickshire.liftshare.com/). We would request that the SPD provides a commitment to promote car sharing through this initiative as part of the Travel Plan proposals described on page 63. 2. Consideration should also be given to providing some form of Accepted text revised. – bus priority measures along the spine road (e.g. bus priority lanes and/or bus priority at traffic signals). These should be designed to enable buses to gain a competitive advantage by improving bus journey times from the site towards key destinations, the principal one being Leamington Spa. 3. We welcome the commitment to work with (bus) Noted text revised to make this a matter for – operators and WCC as Highway Authority to develop the public negotiation via the application process. transport strategy. However, the paragraph at the end of page 62 does not appear to fully reflect our stated aspirations for service frequency which we outlined to the development team at an initial meeting on 13 August 2013 as set out below: New or enhanced express bus services would be required to provide (1) a minimum 15 minute frequency serving the development between 0600 1900 from Monday to Saturday, —
across walkways. We await their plans with interest. Warwickshire County Council - Planning and Development 1. The sentence of paragraph 1 on page 62 refers to an aspiration to achieve a high level of modal split (circa 20% to 30%). It might be better to phrase this as follows...an aspiration to encourage a high proportion of trips to be undertaken by walk/cycle/bus and car sharing so that these modes make up circa 20% to 30% of overall mode share. Whilst we would support an ambitious mode share aspiration in principle, it is likely to be difficult to achieve in reality without substantial investment in bus services and financial incentives which encourage people to choose bus instead of car (e.g. through discounted ticketing). ‘Choose How You Move‘ is a WCC initiative which includes Car Share Warwickshire which is open to the general public - please see (http://carsharewarwickshire.liftshare.com/). We would request that the SPD provides a commitment to promote car sharing through this initiative as part of the Travel Plan proposals described on page 63. 2. Consideration should also be given to providing some form of bus priority measures along the spine road (e.g. bus priority lanes and/or bus priority at traffic signals). These should be designed to enable buses to gain a competitive advantage by improving bus journey times from the site towards key destinations, the principal one being Leamington Spa. 3. We welcome the commitment to work with (bus) operators and WCC as Highway Authority to develop the public transport strategy. However, the paragraph at the end of page 62 does not appear to fully reflect our stated aspirations for service frequency which we outlined to the development team at an initial meeting on 13 August 2013 as set out below: New or enhanced express bus services would be required to provide (1) a minimum 15 minute frequency serving the development between 0600 — 1900 from Monday to Saturday, The SPD seeks an ambitious mode share for public transport and future negotiations will be based on securing substantial investment to support this. Specific change to wording agreed and text updated. See above. Agreed – text revised. Accepted – text revised. Noted – text revised to make this a matter for negotiation via the application process.