This set of slides is from a presentation to Farrells, and was delivered by Finlay McNab, Sustrans' National Projects Co-Ordinator for Street Design in September 2014.
It explores the key challenges faced by cities of the future, and the need to adopt a different and smarter way to design our cities. It also explores placemaking, and Sustrans' approach to Community Street Design.
5. What we are best known for: The National Cycle Network
6.
7. The National Cycle Network
– some facts
14,000 miles
One-third traffic-free
485 million trips a year
Everyday journeys
Leisure routes
Cycle tourism
8. Future movement
Sustrans wants to see the number of local journeys made by foot, bike and public transport double to four out of five by
2020.
54% Car
2% Other
Source: Department for Transport, 2008 and the National Travel Survey for Great Britain
34% Foot
2% Bicycle
8% Public
transport
Now
2020
20% Car
40% Foot
20% Bicycle
20%
Public
transport
10. 71% adults played outside in streets areas close to home every day when
they were children, compared to 21%
11. Traffic Danger
= Biggest Fear
Source: Department for Transport National Travel Survey 2008
12. Streets designed
for maximum
traffic throughput
Faster and greater
volume of traffic
More barriers to
walking and
cycling
13.
14. Social isolation… or interaction?
Residents in streets with lower
speeds know more of their
neighbours, spend more time
socialising in their street and
allow their children to play out
more often
Source: Sauter and Hüttenmoser (2006)
15. Loneliness twice as unhealthy as obesity of older people
Source:
Christina R. Victor Ann Bowling
Longitudinal Analysis of Loneliness Among Older
People in Great Britain
16. More motorised traffic
People feel more
socially isolated
More people
choose to drive
Less people use streets
for socialising
People feel less safe
walking and cycling
Streets designed
for maximum
speed + volume
Faster and greater
volume of traffic
More barriers to
walking and
cycling
18. More people choose to
walk and cycle
More social interaction
on streets
Presence of people
attracts more people
Streets and public
spaces feel safer
Streets designed with
local community as
places for people
Less barriers to
walking and
cycling
More pedestrian
activity encourages
slower traffic speeds
People feel part of
their community
44. “now walking to the tube station, I can say hello to
lots of people”
“Dad used to bring me in the car (to school)
because it was not so safe. I now come with
Mum either walking or on my bike”
45. Safety
Almost 80% of residents surveyed now think the
street is pedestrian friendly
20% of residents surveyed now think the street is
safe for children to play on, compared
to 7% of those surveyed before the project
46. Traffic speed and volume
Recorded average daily traffic volume decreased
by 10%
63% of traffic now travelling at less than 20mph,
compared to 40% before the project
79. ‘..your home, your street, your
neighbourhood… collectively make an
enormous contribution to the future of our
planet.’
The Farrell Review
80. Finlay McNab
National Projects Co-ordinator
Community Street Design
@FinMcNab
finlay.mcnab@sustrans.org.uk
Picture credits:
Creative Commons: Alan Stanton, ‘Public Place’
Editor's Notes
Transport emissions account for about a quarter of Carbon Dioxide emissions in the Uk (second largest category after energy supply)
2013 UK Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Provisional Figures and 2012 UK Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Final Figures by Fuel Type and End-User Department of Energy and Climate Change
In the UK the direct financial cost of physical inactivity to the NHS is estimated as £900 million (Scarborough P, Bhatnagar P, Wickramasinghe K, Allender S, Foster C, Rayner M. (2011). The economic burden of ill health due to diet, physical inactivity, smoking, alcohol and obesity in the UK: an update to 2006–07 NHS costs. J Public Health. doi: 10.1093/pubmed/fdr033)
In 1984 we went from campaigning to doing. Bristol to Bath, Glasgow to Dumbarton, Selby to York. The latter precipitated the conversion of Cyclebag into a registered charity - sustrans
During 1979 to 1984 Sustrans built the 16 mile long route from Bristol to Bath initially using volunteers and then large teams under the Government’s Community Enterprise Programme.
The level of change needed will vary from place to place. In Edinburgh, for example, 22% of journeys are already made by foot, in Greater Manchester 28% are made by public transport, and in Cambridge 26% of journeys to work are made by bike.
We need every town, city and village in the UK to make this move by 2020.
Figures show that regularly playing outdoors near home is much less common for today’s children than for previous generations.
An ICM survey commissioned by Play England for Playday shows that 71 per cent of adults played outside in the street or area close to their homes every day when they were children, compared to only 21 per cent of children today.
Both children and adults considered traffic to be the main factor that stops children and young people playing or spending time in the streets or areas near their homes, with nearly 1 in 4 children and 35 per cent of adults listing it as one of their top three barriers to street play.
29 per cent of under-18s and 39 per cent of adults said that more play spaces would make children and young people play on the streets and areas near their homes more often. Less danger from traffic was the second most popular solution given by adults (23 per cent), and children put less traffic in their top three solutions.
In 2012, the overall motor vehicle traffic volume was over 10 times higher than in 1949. Road Traffic Statistics: Annual Road Traffic Estimates. Great Britain 2012. Department of Transport
Road Traffic Statistics: Annual Road Traffic Estimates. Great Britain 2012. Department of Transport
Community chalk Board / Butcher’s Advertising
Practising what you preach – getting noticed
‘People Tend to site where there are placed to sit’ William whyte
Night time tours
Temporary Changes to the Street to engender a different sense of place and encourage different begaviour