URGENT REPONSE TRANSPORT ACTION PLAN

CONSERVATIVE GROUP AMENDMENT

To amend recommendations 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 and 2.7 as shown in bold italics and where struck through and add recommendations 2.4, 2.5 and 2.6

2.         RECOMMENDATIONS:    

The Committee is recommended to:

2.1      Note the update to temporary measures that have been implemented as part of the Urgent Response Transport Action Plan contained in Appendix A, and that except where altered by the following recommendations, the committee agrees they remain in place while the threat from Covid-19 is again escalating, and that officers continue to monitor those schemes and report findings back to the November a future Committee.

2.2       Request Delegate authority to the Executive Director Economy, Environment & Culture to remove the temporary cycle lane on review and make amendments to the Old Shoreham Road.  cycle lane in respect of specific traffic movements, including the right hand turn into Olive Road to ease congestion.

2.3       Request Give approval for the Executive Director Economy, Environment & Culture to urgently to commence detail design and the Traffic Regulation Order process to re-open Madeira Drive one-way eastbound, restore and improve blue badge capacity and unfettered access for everybody to Changing Places public toilets and relocate cycle facilities as detailed in paragraph 3.19 6 of this report and the plan contained in Appendix C.

2.4       Request the Executive Director Economy, Environment & Culture to urgently alter the Traffic Regulation Orders in respect to New Road to allow Blue Badge holders to access and park in New Road the same as all other road users and to provide Blue Badge parking in proximity to New Road for Blue Badge use during the closed period. In respect to the city centre to allow Blue Badge holders long-term parking as opposed to the current 3-hour limit.

2.5      Request the Executive Director Economy, Environment & Culture to urgently install the eight fit for purpose disabled bays in Bartholomew Square and via consultation with stakeholders representing Blue Badge holders, relocate the two now inaccessible disabled bays in London Road.

2.6       Request the Executive Director Economy, Environment & Culture to urgently commission an independent road safety audit on the “floating” disabled parking bays on the A259 with emphasis on them being fit for purpose for use by Blue Badge holders.

2.47 Postpone Tranche 1 proposals not already implemented (save for those changes detailed in points 2.2 – 2.6 inclusive and Agree that subject to the Council securing funding for Tranche 2 proposals until of the government’s Emergency Active Travel Fund, a report is brought to a Special or Urgency Committee to agree the measures being taken forward and the associated public and stakeholder consultation plan. The report to include assessments relating to, inter alia, economic, financial, social, equalities, pollution & air quality, traffic movement & displacement and journey time impacts such that future decisions can be based on considered opinions, evidence and assessments capable of future monitoring comparisons.

Proposed by: Cllr. Lee Wares              Seconded by: Cllr. Vanessa Brown

Recommendation if carried to read:

That the Committee: 

2.1      Note the update to temporary measures that have been implemented as part of the Urgent Response Transport Action Plan contained in Appendix A, and that except where altered by the following recommendations, the committee agrees they remain in place while the threat from Covid-19 is again escalating, and that officers continue to monitor those schemes and report findings back to the November Committee.

2.2       Request the Executive Director Economy, Environment & Culture to remove the temporary cycle lane on Old Shoreham Road.

2.3       Request the Executive Director Economy, Environment & Culture to urgently re-open Madeira Drive one-way eastbound, restore and improve blue badge capacity and unfettered access for everybody to Changing Places public toilets and relocate cycle facilities as detailed in paragraph 3.19 of this report and the plan contained in Appendix C.

2.4       Request the Executive Director Economy, Environment & Culture to urgently alter the Traffic Regulation Orders in respect to New Road to allow Blue Badge holders to access and park in New Road the same as all other road users and to provide Blue Badge parking in proximity to New Road for Blue Badge use during the closed period. In respect to the city centre to allow Blue Badge holders long-term parking as opposed to the current 3-hour limit.

2.5      Request the Executive Director Economy, Environment & Culture to urgently install the eight fit for purpose disabled bays in Bartholomew Square and via consultation with stakeholders representing Blue Badge holders, relocate the two now inaccessible disabled bays in London Road.

2.6       Request the Executive Director Economy, Environment & Culture to urgently commission an independent road safety audit on the “floating” disabled parking bays on the A259 with emphasis on them being fit for purpose for use by Blue Badge holders.

2.7       Postpone Tranche 1 proposals not already implemented (save for those changes detailed in points 2.2 – 2.6 inclusive and for Tranche 2 proposals until a report is brought to a Special or Urgency Committee to agree the measures being taken forward and the associated public and stakeholder consultation plan. The report to include assessments relating to, inter alia, economic, financial, social, equalities, pollution & air quality, traffic movement & displacement and journey time impacts such that future decisions can be based on considered opinions, evidence and assessments capable of future monitoring comparisons.