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Representation ID: 3758
Received: 02/04/2019
Respondent: Southend Borough Council - 2050 Safe and Well
For park and ride to be effective there needs to be an advantage for the buses over the cars competing for road space.
The Borough does not have the space to add bus lanes onto existing routes, therefore there would need to be redesignation of a current lane into a bus lane.
The optimum route to make this happen is on the A127, so a site for a car park would need to be identified somewhere between Rayleigh and Southend and a bus lane introduced from there to the Victoria interchange. This could potentially force people out of their cars if the service and travel experience provided by the bus is superior to the experience of remaining in the car.
Andrew Barnes and Elizabeth Georgeou - Green City 2050 outcome leads
For park and ride to be effective there needs to be an advantage for the buses over the cars competing for road space.
The Borough does not have the space to add bus lanes onto existing routes, therefore there would need to be redesignation of a current lane into a bus lane.
The optimum route to make this happen is on the A127, so a site for a car park would need to be identified somewhere between Rayleigh and Southend and a bus lane introduced from there to the Victoria interchange. This could potentially force people out of their cars if the service and travel experience provided by the bus is superior to the experience of remaining in the car.
Andrew Barnes and Elizabeth Georgeou - Green City 2050 outcome leads