Groningen2006

Groningen2006

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  Socialist Health Association• Manchester • Transport & Obesity The art of the possible: Cycle hell in Manchester? Groningen chose cycling heaven Richard Armitage Slide Richard Armitage • Friends’ Meeting House, Manchester • 8 October 2007 Slide Richard Armitage • Friends’ Meeting House, Manchester • 8 October 2007 1 2 3 in 5 journeys by bike within City of Groningen: 3km radius of city centre cycle city 2002 data: 37% of all trips Pro-cycling actions since 1970s Key city in north Netherlands Residents: 180,000+ and rising Large student population Regional economic powerhouse Cycling investment has had no adverse economic impact Slide Richard Armitage • Friends’ Meeting House, Manchester • 8 October 2007 Slide Richard Armitage • Friends’ Meeting House, Manchester • 8 October 2007 3 4 Supermarket bike park Afternoon school run Slide Richard Armitage • Friends’ Meeting House, Manchester • 8 October 2007 Slide Richard Armitage • Friends’ Meeting House, Manchester • 8 October 2007 5 6 1
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  How much roadfor pedestrians and cyclists? Bike + pedestrians can mix Slide Richard Armitage • Friends’ Meeting House, Manchester • 8 October 2007 Slide Richard Armitage • Friends’ Meeting House, Manchester • 8 October 2007 7 8 Cars not allowed through the city centre It will be multi- storey bike parks next Slide Richard Armitage • Friends’ Meeting House, Manchester • 8 October 2007 Slide Richard Armitage • Friends’ Meeting House, Manchester • 8 October 2007 9 10 Putting your bike 10,000+ on level 2 is easy bikes at the rail and bus interchange Slide Richard Armitage • Friends’ Meeting House, Manchester • 8 October 2007 Slide Richard Armitage • Friends’ Meeting House, Manchester • 8 October 2007 11 12 2
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  Finding it lateris harder Cycling traffic management Slide Richard Armitage • Friends’ Meeting House, Manchester • 8 October 2007 Slide Richard Armitage • Friends’ Meeting House, Manchester • 8 October 2007 13 14 3,000 bikes in lock-up, Cycle route signs beneath the rail station Slide Richard Armitage • Friends’ Meeting House, Manchester • 8 October 2007 Slide Richard Armitage • Friends’ Meeting House, Manchester • 8 October 2007 15 16 Public realm transformed - More new bike parking cycle investment continues Slide Richard Armitage • Friends’ Meeting House, Manchester • 8 October 2007 Slide Richard Armitage • Friends’ Meeting House, Manchester • 8 October 2007 17 18 3
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  It’s part ofthe culture Slide Richard Armitage • Friends’ Meeting House, Manchester • 8 October 2007 Slide Quick chat, then off home Richard Armitage • Friends’ Meeting House, Manchester • 8 October 2007 19 20 Cycle heaven: divine Why so little progress on intervention not required! cycling in the UK… In Groningen: Poor leadership 1969-1972 GM’s LTP2 draft - decline in walking! – all political hues accept new traffic policy Scraps from the funding table – city centre - no through route for cars But the M6 widening gets approval 1976 Verkeerscirculatieplan- 42% of budget spent on cycling facilities Cycling engineers & promoters 1989-2000 c.£15m (would have been Low salaries, lowly status, no support £210m in Greater Manchester) Media bias 2006 €5.5m (GM equivalent: £52m) Journalists wedded to their cars Slide Richard Armitage • Friends’ Meeting House, Manchester • 8 October 2007 Slide Richard Armitage • Friends’ Meeting House, Manchester • 8 October 2007 21 22 Imagination… The missing ingredients Ambition, imagination, vision Strategic plan (is this the TIF?) Large scale investment Programme lasting 20+ years Marketing (at ‘car’ levels) Multi-agency joint action plans Sense of urgency Slide Richard Armitage • Friends’ Meeting House, Manchester • 8 October 2007 Slide Richard Armitage • Friends’ Meeting House, Manchester • 8 October 2007 23 24 4
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  Vision… (of Ambition…(making loveliness) the bus cool) Slide Richard Armitage • Friends’ Meeting House, Manchester • 8 October 2007 Slide Richard Armitage • Friends’ Meeting House, Manchester • 8 October 2007 25 26 Visit: www.fietsberaad.nl, go to Rapporten, Manchester Utd. After the and download: match 20 September 2012 Continous and integral: The cycling policies of Groningen and other European cycling cities Fietsberaad-publication no. 7, April 2006 Richard Armitage Transport Consultancy Ltd. Oxford House, Smithy Fold Road, HYDE, SK14 5QY Tel: 0161 368 6603 [email protected] www.ratransport.co.uk Slide Richard Armitage • Friends’ Meeting House, Manchester • 8 October 2007 Slide Richard Armitage • Friends’ Meeting House, Manchester • 8 October 2007 27 28 5