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Why does transport matter? What are the options for more sustainable transport in Cambridge?

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Why does transport matter?

What are the options for more sustainable transport in

Cambridge?

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How do people travel around Cambridge?

• Can you write down all the ways in which people travel around the city of Cambridge?

• Then add to this list, what are the provisions for them, and their type of transport?

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How are people catered for?

• Free bike parks• Park and ride schemes• Free bus at the weekend (around

Christmas time, route around the very centre of the city)

• Plenty of parking garages• Main bus station in the city centre

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1.03 Gha transport footprint

• In Cambridge, a person’s transport footprint is quite high: it is the 7th highest out of the 60 cities in the WWF survey!)

• Is this surprising, considering the view of Cambridge as a city where people cycle?

• Transport is thought to be one of the ways in which cities can reduce their eco-footprint quite quickly, depending on the initiative.

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Cars are the main problem

• 72% of Uk households own at least one car

• There are over 22 million cars on the roads

• Cars pollute with their exhausts, clog up roads with traffic jams and use valuable raw materials in their construction, and in the construction of roads.

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what is the future?

• For the period up to year 2016 proposes that 50,000 new jobs will be created and about 42,000 new homes built in the Cambridge sub-region.  This will be accompanied by a substantial growth in travel demand.

• The already congested and under-funded transport system will be unable to cope unless there is major investment. Cambridgeshire County Council has estimated that £1bn needs to be spent on transport.

• http://www.cambridgefutures.org/index.htm

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What are the options for Cambridge?

• Trams/guided bus way• Bus lanes• Congestion charging e.g. in London

there has been a 21% fall in traffic in the zone, 45% rise in bus passengers, 43% increase in the number of cyclists

• Park and ride schemes

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What are the options for Cambridge?

• Read the document given to you, detailing the range of options currently being considered for Cambridge.

• Fill in the decision making exercise in your booklet to explain what you think would be the best option for Cambridge for the future transport.

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Sustainable transport in Cambridge.

• What options did you choose?• How are these economic and socially

sustainable?