Richard Evans - European Mobility Week 2015 - Successful Past Events and EMW Activities in the UK
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Presentation from the European Mobility Week 2015 full-day training workshop held on 15 April 2015 at Camden Town Hall, organised by Act TravelWise with financial support from the Department for Transport.
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Richard Evans - European Mobility Week 2015 - Successful Past Events and EMW Activities in the UK
- 1. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 1 Successful Past Events and EMW Activities in the UK
- 2. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 2 Campaign Origins • First ever CFD was in Bath, UK, in June 1995 • It is a vicious rumour that the French started it in La Rochelle in 1997… This claim must be contested at every available opportunity!
- 3. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 3 EMW-ITWMC Charter Criteria • 16-22 September, every year • Annual theme, 2015: Choose. Change. Combine. • Organise a week of activities to promote sustainable transport • Implement at least one permanent measure which contributes to modal transfer from private car to environmentally sound means of transport… • …ideally involving roadspace reallocation • Organise the In Town Without My Car! day, i.e. car free street, preferably on 22nd September
- 4. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 4 In Town Without My Car! (Car Free Day) • Close one or more urban streets to motors for at least one day, eg 7am – 7pm • Preferably on 22nd September (Tuesday this year) • These streets are the domain of pedestrians, cyclists and public transport • Find a better use for the street, e.g. test a homezone, bike trials, street theatre, music, dancing, public art, children’s play areas…
- 5. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 5 What are our town centres streets for? Maximising throughput of motor traffic?
- 6. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 6 Not for People! (1978 Government road safety poster!)
- 7. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 7 Motors only!
- 8. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 8
- 9. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 9 Not for kids!
- 10. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 10 Or something else? ITWMC, Bristol, 2002
- 11. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 11 Islington
- 12. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 12 Greenwich
- 13. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 13 Hackney/Tower-Hamlets
- 14. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 14 Waltham Forest
- 15. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 15 Permanent measure example Roadspace reallocation permanent scheme: road turned into cycle track at Farringdon Station (LB Islington)
- 16. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 16 Bristol 7 streets closed to motors in Corn Street area of city centre
- 17. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 17 Islington Inspired by San Francisco
- 18. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 18 Park(ing) Day in Manchester
- 19. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 19 Tower Bridge CFD 2001
- 20. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 20 Ken launches new London bike map
- 21. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 21 The King sang to Ken at The Cut “The Wonder of You!”
- 22. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 22 Kingston
- 23. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 23 Edinburgh commuter challenge Bikesalw aysw in!
- 24. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 24 Polar bear joins commuter challenge in Swindon
- 25. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 25 Stoke-on-Trent Permanent scheme: new car sharing scheme at University Hospital launched, aka… how many nurses can you fit in a Mini?
- 26. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 26 St Johns Road, Wembley • residential street used as rat-run • ITWMC 2005 used to pilot a one-day experimental road closure
- 27. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 27 Egham, Surrey A commuter challenge event almost guarantees good local press coverage BIKES ALWAYS WIN!
- 28. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 28 Flint Permanent scheme: new bus-only link, controlled by rising bollards, in the Deeside Industrial Estate Church Street closed to motor traffic for Car Free Day
- 29. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 29 Hammersmith
- 30. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 30 Bring in the kids! LB Merton Eastbourne
- 31. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 31 LB Merton Winning entry in sustainable travel photo competition Merton Commuter Challengers (the bikes won)
- 32. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 32 Milton Keynes
- 33. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 33 Newcastle-Upon- Tyne
- 34. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 34 Newport car- crushing! Newport council worker Geraint Roberts crushed his old Volvo, in exchange for free rail travel for his 22-mile commute from Pontyclun
- 35. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 35 A popular campaign 67% 23% 3% 1% 6% very good idea quite good idea not a very good idea very bad idea don’t know / no opinion (962 people polled 22nd Sept 2004 in ten participating UK towns)
- 36. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 36 Most people share the campaign concerns To reduce traffic and pollution, do you agree that car use should be limited in your town? 50% 36% 6% 3% 5% Strongly agree Somew hat agree Somew hat disagree Strongly disagree Don’t know / no opinion
- 37. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 37 People perceive lots of campaign benefits What in your opinion are the main benefits of this event? 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 There is less pollution It is easier to w alk around The street is quieter because there's no motor traffic The street is a friendlier place Raises aw areness of transport problems People are less stressed I feel safer It is easier to cycle I can try another means of transport Increased revenue for shops and restaurants There are no benefits to me Other benefits (please specify in comments the end) Don’t know There are no benefits to other people
- 38. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 38 Islington END OF PART 1
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- 40. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 40 Design out obesity! Countries with highest levels of active travel generally have the lowest obesity rates Time spent in cars is positively associated with obesity Physical inactivity is killing more people than smoking The Times last week: “Britain has one of the worst obesity rates in the world…our lifestyles are more sedentary than ever before” “If a medication existed that had a similar effect as physical activity, it would be regarded as a wonder drug or miracle cure” Sir Liam Donaldson, Former Chief Medical Officer, 2009
- 41. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 41 Air Quality • Air pollution in London's Oxford Street breached the legal limit for the whole of 2015 – by January 4th ! • 24,000 premature deaths every year in UK • “We need a long term strategy of reducing pollution in our great city – let's start with pedestrianising Oxford St and other roads in Central London” tweet by Christian Wolmar 10/4/15, hopeful Labour candidate for London Mayor • EMW = great opportunity
- 42. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 42 Camden
- 43. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 43 Greenwich
- 44. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 44 Corby, Northants
- 45. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 45 Barnstaple
- 46. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 46 Preston
- 47. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 47 Swindon
- 48. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 48 Swansea
- 49. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 49 Inverness
- 50. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 50 Stoke-on-Trent
- 51. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 51 Bristol: permanent schemes Three new Home Zones in Southville Rising bollards in city centre
- 52. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 52 GPG examples: Camden Museum Street, Camden, 22/9/03… inspired the permanent measures clause in the charter: "implement one or more new practical measure(s) that are made permanent in the local authority and which contribute(s) to modal transfer from private car to environmentally sound means of transport and to sustainable urban mobility in general."
- 53. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 53 Camden 2004 Coptic Street, parallel to Museum Street, and now also permanently car-free
- 54. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 54 Streets for People • Local authorities invite bids from residents (individuals, groups, associations) to put forward the case for their street to be the focus for the ITWMC, and perhaps the whole week • A chance for local people to develop and pilot their own ideas in their own streets, (eg a lower speed limit, a homezone, a road closure…)
- 55. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 55 SFP features • Residents take ownership of the event • Locals are empowered: they can make a difference • Foster responsibility and pride • Local Authority support and traffic orders etc. given to best workable proposal(s) which have strong grassroots support and leadership.
- 56. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 56 SFP would be popular • A 2006 national survey of 1,977 people showed three quarters of people in favour of traffic calming MORI / County Surveyors' Society, April 2006 • 81% of 10,000 respondents in a phone poll voted in favour of a London-wide 20mph speed limit London Tonight, Carlton TV, 25 January 1999
- 57. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 57 SFP benefits • Opportunity for towns where the centre may already be pedestrianised… • …or where a town centre event might be too costly and time- consuming to organise • For residential suburbs…everyone wants “something done” about the traffic in their street • Local authority delivers what people want - not imposed from “on high” • Organisation shared at grass roots level • Cheap and quick to sort (compared to major city centre event) • More than one good bid… more than one event?
- 58. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 58 SFP sub-themes • Stronger links with healthy lifestyles: research in Scotland has shown that health is the biggest single motivator to cut car use… publicise benefits of daily exercise, health risks of sedentary lifestyles, higher pollution levels in cars… • Focus on car-free lifestyles: highlight examples of people and organisations which thrive without personal motor transport. • Celebrate people who achieve life goals – access to jobs, schools, shopping, holidays, entertainment, romance – without always jumping in a car to get them!
- 59. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 59 SFP example from Brent (NW London) “We closed five streets for traditional street parties… residents organised all sorts of activities: environmental fairs, cycling competitions, markets, concerts, sports etc. “There were great photos and loads of positive press, and they have led to a proposal to create a permanent Home Zone. “It was really nice to do this for the community and see everyone out enjoying the street and meeting their neighbours…
- 60. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 60 Brent shows the way! “Old fashioned street parties are a great way to show residents how enjoyable their streets can be, using them as social space and making the street scene more attractive for residents and safer for children to play” Transport Planner and Event Organiser Kathryn King
- 61. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 61 Case Study: Hammersmith & Fulham EMW boxes ticked… Estcourt Road Fulham closed to motors New 20mph speed limit unveiled by Mayor Child designed sign Pavement build-outs St Thomas Primary School organised their own street party and managed the budget
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- 68. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 68 Press: the good…
- 69. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 69 …the bad...
- 70. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 70 …the ugly
- 71. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 71 Our new Bible?
- 72. In Town, Without My Car & European Mobility Week 72 The vision thing In Town With My Car!
Editor's Notes
- A sand-pit for the kids makes alternative use of the Greenwich town centre 1-way system
- This kind of scheme is to my mind the gold standard scheme – the only way to permanently cut motor traffic in town is to cut the space we make available for it to move and to park. Then reclaim the space to facilitate passage by the greener modes.
- Photo is in Cowcross Street, LB Islington, where this parking bay has been used to set up a table-tennis tournament.
- If you like the look of these ideas, check out http://www.parkingday.org/
- Maple Road in Surbiton, normally a busy through route, this was a bold event – good to see some courage and determination from Kingston council officers, backed by strong political support
- A great event to organise if you want to promote cycling: quick, cheap, easy, and practically guaranteed local media coverage
- A full page in the local paper, just because one of the commuter challenge participants wore a polar bear suit!
- Another cheap way for media-tarts to get some notice!
- Costs a bit more to organise than a commuter challenge or car-share event… but the returns were greater too – this event was top of the Welsh TV news, and reported internationally. Value of air-time and column inches way exceeded relatively modest cost of hiring the mobile car-baler.
- Camden uses the campaign every year to launch a new permanent scheme such as this “urban realm improvement” in the Holborn area with wider pavements and use of high quality York stone materials to transform the streetscape and signify that it is an area primarily for pedestrians.
- This is the one-way system in Greenwich town centre – all motor traffic diverted onto alternative routes for the day
- Human-powered taxi services for EMW
- Chalk is cheap!
- More highway art – really popular, quick and easy to get organised
- Swansea City Council officers celebrating the launch of a new local bus service in EMW 2007 – thus ticking the permanent features box in the charter
- The man cutting the tape is Derek Twigg (then a government transport minister) The rising bollards – just flick a switch – enable Bristol to have several car free days every year. Every town needs a switch like this!
- This is the event which inspired the permanent measures clause in the charter – last year during EMW over 6,000 permanent measures were launched all over Europe
- Local press interest is usually high, and coverage is usually positive. Try to inform the press of your plans well in advance, and say how they fit in with any local strategy to cut car use and why. That way the editors have some time to do a thoughtful job, rather than a knee-jerk anti council rant…
- Press coverage can be bad – even if your town does nothing! This cutting is from a local rag in Kingston-on-Thames which has since participated in the campaigns every year, most recently with its bold events in Maple Road, Surbiton (see earlier slide) The second article on the page was about an impromptu car free day event in Richmond Park. The park authorities had refused to close the park to motor traffic for car free day, despite a recently published report by Dame Jennifer Jenkins recommending just that. So 500 local cyclists came together for a slow pedal round the park’s 7-mile perimeter road to highlight the nonsense that this urban jewel of a park should serve as a rat-run to enough motor traffic every day to warrant dualling the carriageway!
- I have always taken view that any publicity is good – when people like Littlejohn notice what we are doing, we have arrived!
- Looking forward to reversed priorities – this lovely cartoon sums up I think the wholesale and radical changes that we need to make to turn our towns and cities into civilised places where steam gives way to sail and where people are more important than cars. Someone once suggested to me that when this idyllic state of affairs becomes the norm, people will be campaigning for a special day perhaps once a year when they are allowed to drive their cars into town – the In Town With My Car! Day