HS2 PRESENTATION WHERE WE ARE NOW PETITION Pe++on presented to - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

HS2 PRESENTATION WHERE WE ARE NOW

PETITION • Pe++on presented to Parliament o Incorpora+ng material from village • Concerns: o Conges+on and rat runs o Safety o Noise and vibra+on o Pollu+on o Damage to A361 o Emergency services o Lack of impact assessment

MITIGATION • Bypass or haul road • Re-rou+ng of traffic • Speed limits o Traffic calming measures • Pedestrian crossings • Noise insula+on measures • Safeguards for access for emergency services • Limi+ng HS2 traffic to day+me during week

HS2 RESPONSE • Response by HS2 to our pe++on o No challenge on standing • No need for bypass o Suitable mi+ga+on measures will have to be agreed o With Oxfordshire CC as planning/highway authority o Consulta+on with Parish Council o No significant safety concerns/accident clusters iden+fied • Impact on noise, vibra+on and air quality assessed o No significant effects as a result of APs o Just traffic related

OTHER DEVELOPMENTS • Mee+ng with HS2 o Oxfordshire County Council o Cherwell District Council o Victoria Pren+s MP • Site visit to A361 • LeXers to HS2 and to Oxfordshire CC o Seeking informa+on • Responses from HS2 and OCC • Legal advice from Pinsent Masons

HS2 traffic - 2021 • HS2 HGVs • 2,240 both ways per day • 1,477% increase from projected 2021 baseline of 152 HGVs • HS2 LGVs and cars • 204 both ways per day • 3% increase in LGVs and cars • To 6,605 per day from projected 2021 baseline of 6,401 • Total of 2,444 HS2 vehicles per day (1,222 in each direc+on) • 8 am to 6pm weekdays • 8 am to 1 pm Saturdays

INCREASES • Increase of 942 HGVs per day o From original plan • Decrease of 124 cars/LGVs o Refinement in no of workforce trips o Net increase of 818 HS2 vehicles per day

REASONS FOR INCREASE • Increase due to “accelera+on of earthworks programme” o Transport of soil from Lower Thorpe Mandeville and Turweston o To Lower Boddington o Where deficit of material o For noise bunds and landscape integra+on • From Turweston via A43, M40 (J10 to 11) and A361 • From Lower Thorpe via A422 and A361

TIMELINES • Construc+on of Chipping Warden bypass o Will cause some increase in traffic o 12 month period o When construc+on traffic serving compound rela+vely low o Year 1 of construc+on programme • Construc+on traffic for period of 6 years o Moderate for 2 years (about 100 HGVs) o Bad for 1 year (about 1000 HS2 vehicles) o Really bad for about 18 months (up to 2,444 HS2 vehicles) o Moderate for 3 ½ years

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TRAFFIC REPORT • Capacity of A361 through Wardington o 750-900 vehicles per hour o One way o Road width less than 6.75m • Decrease by 225 as 20% + of vehicles will be HGVs • To 525 to 675 vehicles per hour • AM peak hour southbound • PM peak hour northbound • 698 vehicles

REPORT’S CONCLUSIONS • Capacity exceeded • Peak hours • Peak period • One way • 698 vehicles • More than capacity • 525-625 vehicles • 2015 traffic flow • Counter on A361 • Traffic exceeds HS2’s 2021 baseline • By 609 northbound over 12 hour period

HS2 POSITION • HS2 adopt the same figures for assessing capacity • Conclusion that A361 through Wardington o “could be under pressure” o “during peak +mes of construc+on” • HS2: o Figures worst case scenario o Peak construc+on period o Under review o Looking at moving soil along the line o Internal haul roads

OXFORDSHIRE CC • HS2 say that need approval of OCC o Traffic construc+on plan o Code of Construc+on Prac+ce o To reduce poten+al transport impacts • Local environmental management plan • Environmental minimum requirements • Oxfordshire CC: o A361 acceptable route in principle o HS2 not clearly iden+fied and agreed appropriate mi+ga+on measures o Or demonstrated that deliverable by project o Primary focus on safety, then conges+on o Tolerance for conges+on rela+vely high

NEXT STEPS • Prepara+on for Select CommiXee hearing (18 Jan 2016) • Slides • Showing map/aerial view • Annotated • Video • Limited legal advice • Witnesses: 1 business, 1 resident? • Traffic counter + report addendum • Press HS2 on taking soil up line

PROSPECTS • HS2 directed to: o Sa+sfy Select CommiXee o Capacity o Safety etc o Mi+ga+on measures • If not sa+sfied, numbers of HGVs reduced o Or bypass o Long shot