The options are outlined by Environment & Infrastructure in a review of the Transport Strategy, which also reveals an investigation into an off-road foot and cycle path from Cobo to St Peter Port and a trial priority parking initiative for multi-occupancy vehicles.
‘In terms of its overall vision, the strategy is moving in the right direction,’ the review states.
‘In many areas there has been significant progress on the stated objectives, despite the absence of some key policy levers upon which the original strategy was based. However, the strategy is very much a work in progress and more needs to be done to achieve meaningful and effective change for the better.
‘The committee is therefore determined in its efforts to build on the successes to date to improve the efficiency of our transport system and provide a safer, less congested, and less polluted environment in which to live.’
The strategy was introduced in 2014.
The report outlines the objectives and what has been achieved.
For example, there was a goal to reduce the number of car journeys, reducing peak-hour traffic by 10%.
It says that average weekday traffic movements into Town in the morning commute have reduced by 4.7%, representing 130 fewer motor vehicles entering Town between 8 and 9am each day.
The strategy wanted to encourage people to walk, ride and use the bus.
Bus passenger numbers have increased by over 32%, representing an additional 470,000 passenger journeys per year.
Surveys of people walking along Glategny Esplanade show a 25% increase during the morning commute, the report says, with people cycling along Les Banques showing an increase of up to 50% – but it warns that baseline data was very limited.
The strategy targeted having a greater proportion of small cars, but registrations have remained at or around 15% of the annual total.
The new speed limits, E&I says, show small but significant lowering of speeds on all of the roads subject to a reduction.
In Braye Road, average speeds in the 25mph zone have reduced from 30.1mph to 28.7mph in a westbound direction and from 29.7mph to 27.8mph in an eastbound direction.
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