Transport Report | Much Hadham Parish Council | Little Hadham and Much Hadham Community Website

Home

News

Much Hadham Parish Council

Transport Report

Much Hadham Parish Council

Sandra McAdam has recently compiled a report on transport as follows:

TRANSPORT – Looking forward

HCC fighting the government in relation to building growth and how it would impinge on transport. Report due Autumn 08.
The county’s Local Strategic Partnership (called Hertfordshire Forward), which is dealing with the challenges has published long term objectives. These include

Encourage alternatives to the car and reduce need to travel
Improve public transport
Improve road safety

Short term actions include

o Tackling worst congestion hotspots

o Improve accessibility for rural residents by improving time-keeping of local buses and improving access to hospitals

o Maintenance of footways and roads (in relation to safety)

o Reduce road casualties

One of the Local Transport Plan Targets includes more investment in bus services to improve passenger satisfaction. This is currently showing Red (target not on track) on their Targets Risk Assessment programme. The target for 2010 is 50% user satisfaction!!

SOME TRANSPORT FACTS - 2007

80% of Herts residents have access to a car. National average 74%

Traffic flow (countrywide and county) set to increase 30% between 2001 and 2021

Herts CC committed to improve walking, cycling, public transport
East Herts has the lowest rate of injury collisions in Herts
Nationally injury collisions down 3.7% ; Herts down by 3.3% but fatalities increased to 50 during 07.
Serious casualties increased by 9.6%. This goes against National rates. However, the Herts trend is down over the longer term.
Most accidents occur because the driver failed to look properly
Most road users involved in casualty accidents were aged 20 – 24 (650), followed by the 15-19 age group (610).
From age 40 onwards the number of road users involved in casualties decreased dramatically (350 at age 40 to below 100 at age 65-69 and continuing to fall)
Child casualties (0 – 15 yrs) . 386 in 07, 46 fewer than 06. 1 fatality
Highest number of child serious injuries was to cyclists