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City Deal: Call for Evidence CambridgePPF Approach: Opportunity for everyone in Greater Cambridge area to benefit from a better transport system Provision of choice how to travel, whether to own a car, how children get to school


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City Deal: Call for Evidence

CambridgePPF Approach:

  • Opportunity for everyone in Greater Cambridge area

to benefit from a better transport system

  • Provision of choice – how to travel, whether to own

a car, how children get to school etc

  • Public transport option must be bus-based –

improvements to bus services to provide an attractive alternative to the car

  • Identify a source of income sustainable over long-

term to fund public transport improvements

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City Deal: Call for Evidence

  • The only realistic and fair sustainable source of income is

some form of fiscal demand management

  • If we want to improve our public transport services, a

congestion charge is the only sustainable way of delivering this.

  • People need to be given a genuine choice – to pay or to

use an improved public transport service

  • Congestion charge as part of comprehensive package

alongside infrastructure upgrades and public transport improvements, cycling and walking.

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City Deal: Call for Evidence

  • CambridgePPF believes need to correct the imbalance

between capacity of road network and demand by drivers

  • Past focus on increasing capacity by infrastructure

engineering, transport improvements – useful but not enough

  • n their own
  • Need to address demand to change driver behaviour
  • More stick as well as carrot
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City Deal: Call for Evidence

  • Demand Management:
  • Passive measures to ‘frustrate’ drivers out of cars:
  • Core Traffic Scheme, bollards, parking controls
  • Marginally effective in stabilising growth but

drivers very resilient: need stronger measures

  • Direct measures to encourage behaviour change:
  • workplace parking charge: paid by employer

so becomes employment tax: competitiveness

  • some form of congestion charge
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City Deal: Call for Evidence How might a Congestion Charge work?

  • CambridgePPF more concerned with having the

principle of a charge accepted that with the

  • perational details
  • Appoint consultants to examine charges in other

cities and model possible alternatives

  • To be publicly accepted, system must be Fair,

Non-Discriminating, Social Equitable, and Sustainable

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City Deal: Call for Evidence

Fair:

  • provide choice – public transport or car
  • income ring-fenced to subsidise public transport
  • benefit spread across whole Greater Cambridge

area not just free P&R Non-Discriminatory:

  • everybody pays whether resident in City or South Cambs
  • not just a cordon but a city-wide network of sensors
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City Deal: Call for Evidence

  • Socially Equitable:
  • all bus services throughout City and South Cambs would

potentially benefit

  • exemptions: Blue Badge holders, others to be decided
  • some element of differential charging with bigger cars

paying more: air quality benefit

  • Sustainable:
  • sustainable long-term income for public transport from

those who chose to drive

  • some front-end loading as attractive alternative available from day

charge introduced

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City Deal: Call for Evidence

Experience from Cites with Congestion Charge:

  • Traffic volumes typically reduced by some 20-30%
  • Reduced volumes maintained over several years
  • Journey times improved proportionately but often then

increase as road priority given to buses and pedestrians

  • Significant improvements to air quality
  • Public attitude typically hostile at first but supportive
  • nce quality of life benefits materialise (Milan)
  • Substantial income generated: 10-years London scheme,

gross £2.6b with £1.6b invested in public transport

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City Deal: Call for Evidence

Would it work in Cambridge?

  • Evidence shows financial penalty effective in persuading

drivers out of their cars

  • Needs to be part of a bigger comprehensive package of

measures including infrastructure improvements

  • Public likely to be sceptical but experience shows quickly

become accustomed and then supportive

  • 2009 Transport Commission, 59% conditional support
  • Every reason to expect a direct charge to make a

significant contribution to alleviating city’s congestion

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