Medway Council's second Local Transport Plan 2006-2011
The Local Transport Plan (LTP) is closely linked to the council’s regeneration agenda. Medway is situated within the heart of the Thames Gateway, the largest regeneration area in Europe. Major growth in the area will lead to increased demand for travel. A major consultancy study, Transport for Medway, has assessed the transport impact from development and the outcomes from the study have been incorporated in the plan.
In addition to the LTP, Medway Council has also produced supporting strategies which provide more details on how the priorities and targets of the LTP will be achieved.
Six overarching priorities
Medway’s LTP seeks to deliver six overarching priorities:
- to tackle congestion;
- to deliver improved accessibility;
- to make our roads safer;
- to improve air quality;
- to deliver sustainable regeneration;
- to contribute to improving the health of Medway’s residents.
25 LTP targets
Medway’s LTP includes 25 targets covering a broad range of transport issues, such as:
- reducing road casualties;
- improving the condition of Medway’s roads;
- increasing the use of buses;
- improving the accessibility and quality of public transport;
- improving air quality;
- increasing cycling;
- reducing congestion;
- improving access to public rights of way.
Delivering the objectives of Medway’s second LTP will, of course, be a challenge for both Medway Council and its key partners. However, the council is confident it can deliver, over the life of the plan, real improvements to Medway and through its actions help make Medway a city of learning, culture, tourism and enterprise.
Medway Local Transport Plan 2006-2011 documents
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Summary leaflet
This summary leaflet (pdf 376KB) provides a quick guide to the LTP and the successes Medway Council has achieved over the last five years.
In-depth LTP summary document
This summary document (pdf 2,841KB) gives a more detailed guide to the LTP. It is a short technical guide, 16 pages long, and gives a concise overview of the transport aims and initiatives for Medway. This is a useful document for those who want more information that is provided in the leaflet, but may not want download and/or read the full document.
Supporting strategies
- Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) (pdf 3,216KB)
This document assesses the environmental impact of the measures set out in the LTP during plan development and implementation.
- Medway Accessibility Strategy (pdf 3,048KB)
The council is required to undertake the new function of accessibility planning as a result of the Social Exclusion Unit report Making the Connections in 2003. The report sets out the relationship between transport, accessibility and social exclusion. The strategy aims to deliver a number of measures to improve the pedestrian environment, to deliver accessibility improvements to public transport and to form various links with other organisations to improve access to services such as health and education.
- Medway Air Quality Action Plan (pdf 3,395KB)
The Environment Act 1995
(www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1995/Ukpga_19950025_en_1.htm) required the government to produce a National Air Quality Strategy that contained standards and objectives for air quality and described measures to achieve these objectives. As a result of the Act, the council is required to produce a local air quality action plan.
- Medway's Cycling Action Plan (pdf 1,100KB)
This strategy sets out the framework for encouraging and promoting cycling in Medway. The plan builds on previous cycling initiatives and the creation of a cycle forum as part of the Medway Local Strategic Partnership.
- Medway's Walking Action Plan (pdf 974KB)
This sets out to deliver a number of measures to improve the pedestrian environment, to deliver accessibility improvements and to promote walking as a fundamental part of the transport solution for Medway.
- Medway Rights of Way Improvement Plan Statement (pdf 404KB)
This statement details how Medway Council will deliver improvements to public rights of way. The full Public Rights of Way Improvement Plan will be published in November 2007.
- Medway Schools Travel Strategy (pdf 2,273KB)
This strategy is intended to demonstrate the importance of School Travel Plans (STPs) in their local and national context. The plan shows how Medway Council intends to meet government objectives of ensuring every school has a STP by 2010, contributing to the reduction in children killed and seriously injured in road accidents by 50 per cent by 2010 and achieving a modal shift from travelling to school by car to walking, cycling and using school or public transport.
- Road Safety Plan (pdf 5,338KB)
This plan provides a framework for the council and its partners, as the council works to achieve and exceed the targets that government has set for reducing long-term casualties by the end of March 2011. Considerable casualty reductions have been gained in the last five years, specifically in the areas of both fatal and serious collisions. This plan will enable Medway Council to build on these gains and further improve the safety of all road users.
- Medway Bus Strategy (pdf 6,522KB).
Medway's bus strategy has been produced as a supporting five-year strategy for Medway's Local Transport Plan 2006 - 2011 (LTP2). The strategy will stimulate the means by which the people of Medway can choose the bus for more journeys, through proactive promotion of the bus network and will contribute to tackling traffic congestion. It complements the Medway Council strategies focusing on public transport information, walking and cycling by ensuring that information about integrated transport options is designed, located and delivered in ways that will reach the wider public. This is a strategy for positive partnership working with bus service operators within Medway and across its boundaries.
- Public Transport Information Strategy (pdf 1,877KB)
This strategy sets out to provide clear and comprehensive information about public transport services in Medway. It will help the people of Medway with the information to make travel choices, based on complete knowledge of the integrated and public transport options. In turn this will contribute to tackling traffic congestion by encouraging people to choose a non-car option when appropriate to their needs.
- Public Rights of Way Improvement Plan 2007-2017(pdf 861KB)
The primary aim of the Public Rights of Way Improvement Plan (RoWIP) is to ensure that the Rights of Way network is relevant to the people that wish to use it, and that the network meets their current and future needs whilst promoting access for all. How easy it is for people to use Public Rights of Way (PROW) is a key component of making the network a resource that is valued and utilized by as many people as possible. The accessibility of the network is determined by both the physical obstructions to movement that are generally recognized as barriers to the individual and subjective values determined by users, which are a psychological barrier to usage.
- Medway's Provisional Sustainable School Travel Strategy (pdf 188KB)
This document is not part of the LTP supporting strategies, but has been produced in conjunction with the Integrated Transport team, and the council's Education department. This is a provisional document. The final document will be publised next year. For more details on the strategy, please view the following page in our Learning section.
If you have comments on any of the documents, please contact the Integrated Transport team using the details below.
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