Hounslow Highways PFI & Network 2020

Golden Mile Transport Group

24 October 2012

What transport outcomes do we want to achieve?

• Targets for increasing walking, public transport and (particularly) cycling trips.

• Targets for improving road safety for all users.

• Better streetscapes, smoother traffic flow.

Our approved transport strategy (Local Implementation Plan for Transport 2011-2031) sets out our vision for the transport network over next 20yrs – in line with the Mayor of London’s Transport Strategy.

In short..

Hounslow Highway’s PFI Programme

• £100m investment in carriageway and footway over five years, with duty to maintain for a further 20.

• Comprehensive renewal of the footway, carriageway and street lighting.

• Opportunities to ‘automatically’ upgrade elements of the network that are non-compliant (e.g. drop kerbs, pinch points etc).

• Further opportunity to dovetail asset renewal with more substantial improvement works funded by TfL/s106 etc – reducing disruption and saving money.

Network 2020 Programme

Resurfacing & Footway Reconstruction(Hounslow Highways PFI)

Improvements/Changes to Street Alignments (LB Hounslow)

Network 2020

Network 2020 – Year 1 (2013)

First year will be particularly challenging:

• Transition year – Hounslow Highways programme only provided mid-2012 – still subject to minor changes.

• Little time to design and secure approval for improvements to streets due for renewal early 2013.

• Some designs are already in process, or even approved, but this particular street may not be scheduled for asset renewal for some years.

Current Programme (CW/FW)

CW FW

Network 2020 – Year 1 (2013) Consultation (commenced 2011)

Network 2020 Consultation – In Figures

575 individual comments245 individual sites64 identified respondents (by email), many more not

identified

35 on TfL roads (TLRN) (14%)38 relating to off-road routes (Greenways) (16%)37 relating to CSH9 (15%)135 relating to other sites (55%)

Thoughts on consultation process…

• Far more successful than anticipated.• Good to be able to quantify (and portray) extent of

feeling about an issue. • ‘Many eyes’ – helped unearth schemes and rationales

for improvements which may not have occurred to officers.

• Provides further contact with interested parties – not just ‘the usual suspects’.

• BUT…Huge challenge to meet aspiration!

2013/14 Draft Network 2020 Programme (subject to change in line with PFI)

Cycle Superhighway 9

hounslownetwork2020.org

Mark FrostSenior Transport PlannerLondon Borough of Hounslow

020 8583 5037mark.frost@hounslow.gov.uk