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LIVING STREETS

How to be influential


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LIVING STREETS

How to be influential

Or at least how to

try to influence the council


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Understand

the system


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Typical division of responsibility


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The Management System


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Pickles wants

councillors to takemore responsibility

for decisions previously

taken bychief executives.


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Identify

decision making councillors:

1. Portfolio holders2. Local ward councillors


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Make long term friends

You might need more than one goYou might need more than one go


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Help councillors understand

the new thinkingin street design

Show what can be doneShow what can be done


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1960s

vertical

segregation


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Traffic

continues toincrease


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But accidents

peaked in 1970

Concentration on

enforcement andeducation


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Reaction against

total segregation


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Streets are for peopleStreets are for people

not just trafficnot just traffic


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not just trafficnot just trafficDerekDerek TwiggTwiggMinister for TransportMinister for Transport

((RespResp

for walking & cycling)for walking & cycling)

November 2005November 2005


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ITS OFFICIALITS OFFICIAL


not just trafficnot just trafficDerekDerek TwiggTwiggMinister for TransportMinister for Transport

((RespResp

for walking & cycling)for walking & cycling)

November 2005November 2005


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Department for TransportDepartment for Transport

Manual for StreetsManual for Streets20072007


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Manual for StreetsManual for Streets

20072007

Every street has two functions:Every street has two functions:

1. for movement and1. for movement and

2. as a place2. as a place


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Traffic Management andTraffic Management andStreetscapeStreetscape20082008


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Traffic Management and StreetscapeTraffic Management and Streetscape

Streets can be designedStreets can be designed

as placesas placesas well as for movementas well as for movement


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Traffic Management and StreetscapeTraffic Management and Streetscape

Streets can be designedStreets can be designed

as placesas placesas well as for movementas well as for movement

And it can all be doneAnd it can all be done

within the existing lawwithin the existing law


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Department for TransportDepartment for TransportPedestrianPedestrian GuardrailingGuardrailing

20092009


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No evidence that guardrailing

makes roads safer

Some guardrailing actuallycauses accidents


PedestrianPedestrian GuardrailingGuardrailing20092009


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Aldgate Gyratory


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Places (streets) are differentPlaces (streets) are different


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The same street, with less clutter, just as safe


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What can be done?What can be done?

Incremental improvementIncremental improvement

Tidy up


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Tidy up

De-clutter

Relocate

Recreate

Gordon Cullen

Townscape studies 1956


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Transport for LondonFive stages to improve streets

2010

1 Tidy Up

2 De-clutter

3 Re-locate/merge functions

4 Re-think traffic management options

5 Re-create the street


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1. Tidy Up

Royal Mile,


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y ,

Edinburgh

A-boards are a hazard and never contribute positively to the

streetscene


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Stratford-upon-Avon


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Some existing kit is plainly useless andcan be removed without fear

Basingstoke


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Some existing kit is plainly useless andcan be removed without fear


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Five stages to improve streetsFive stages to improve streets

2. De2. De--clutterclutter


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Mare Street, Hackney


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Mare Street, Hackney


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3. Combine3. Combine


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Maid Marian Way, Nottingham


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What can be done?What can be done?

4. Traffic management options4. Traffic management options


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Aldgate Gyratory


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Narrower lanes,

wider footways

Bernard Street, Camden


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Change ped/veh priority - Cannon Street/Queen Street, The City


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Change ped/veh priority - Cannon Street/Queen Street, The City


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Reducing number of lanes

High Street, Camden


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5. Re5. Re--createcreate


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Trafalgar Square


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From ring road to city street -Maid Marian Way, Nottingham


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Sankt Hans Torv,Copenhagen


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Pickles wants

councillors to takemore responsibility

for decisions previously

taken bychief executives.


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BUT

1. This new thinking is not widespread.1. This new thinking is not widespread.2. No requirement to consult or inform2. No requirement to consult or inform

on majority of highway workson majority of highway works

3. Local councillors3. Local councillorsmay not know of good schemes.may not know of good schemes.


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Things could be worse


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Start with a small area.


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Think what could be done


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An offer of technical help from

PRIAN

Public Realm Information

and Advice Network

Download these technical notes


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New official thinking about street design

Streets are for people

not just traffic


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New official thinking about street designNew attitude of the coalition government

Moreresponsibilities

for councillors


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New official thinking about street designNew attitude of the coalition governmentMake friends with relevant councillors

It takes time


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New official thinking about street designNew attitude of the coalition governmentMake friends with relevant councillorsRemind them of what can be done

Visit the goodplaces


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Concentrate on a small area


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Begin with a tidy up


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Begin with a tidy up

START NOW


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The policeare always

here to help


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Colin Daviswww.publicrealm.info


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