Stephen Joseph Campaign for Better Transport Campaign for Better Transport Charitable trust promoting sustainable transport Support from wide range of interests Coordinates NGOs concerned with transport ID: 733161
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Better mobility for older people
Stephen Joseph
Campaign for Better TransportSlide2
Campaign for Better Transport
Charitable trust promoting sustainable transport
Support from wide range of interests
Co-ordinates NGOs concerned with transport
Commissions and publishes research
Conducts public campaigns
Promotes pilot projects and good practiceSlide3
More older people driving…
…but what happens when they can’t?
Access to key services limited
Cuts in bus services
Places designed round cars and car use
Public realm hostile to non-car mobility
… resulting in isolation and exclusionSlide4
Access to services
Services moving away from where people live – banking, retail, health, leisure
In many cases located in places that are accessible easily only by car
Service design assumes car use and accessSlide5
Cuts in bus services
45%
reduction in funding for bus services across England and Wales 2010-11 to 2017-18
3347 bus services reduced or withdrawn since 2010-11Slide6
Places designed around cars: Transport for New HomesProject reviewing transport impacts of new homes
field-based project reviewing a variety of new housing developments in different places in the UK
Comparisons with Netherlands and SwedenSlide7
Key findings
New homes often cut off from surrounding areas with no pavements
Car-based living with resulting congestion
Minimalist public realm
Limited local facilities
Public transport often poor or absentSlide8
Hostile public realm
Pavements are not maintained well and are low priority for repair and gritting
Short crossing times for pedestrians at crossings
Cycling not treated s a transport mode for older peopleSlide9
Result: isolation, loneliness and ill health
Lack of access to other people
Increased social care costs
Slips, trips and falls
Less physical activity
“ I do not own a car. Thanks to recent bus cuts I can now only get from where I live in
Gillingham
to
Frome
once a week. Services generally in Dorset often finish at five o’clock, run so irregularly they are useless and instead of encouraging people onto public transport ensure poorer and older people have to have a car to just get to a doctor or post office or to do basic shopping”Slide10
Ways forward
Plan new developments better
More and better bus services
More funding for road and pavement maintenance
Cycling policy as if older people mattered
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New developments: better practice does existKidbrooke
: limited parking, places to walk to
Poundbury
: 32% of residents walk to work, local facilities
Kilnwood
Vale: extension of CrawleySlide12
Key lessons
Think about transport at the beginning – access/ networks for all modes
Talk to bus operators/ authorities from the start
Plan for something other than 100% car use
Conventional transport modelling won’t be very helpfulSlide13
Key lessons 2
Walking and cycling as main modes: safe routes/ networks linked to surrounding area
Mixed use, good local facilities
High quality public realm not huge car parks
Involve local people Slide14
Better buses
New Bus Services Act gives new powers for councils for partnerships and franchising
“Total Transport”: co-ordinate all local transport contracts
Recognise and fund wider benefits of good bus services
Training for driversSlide15
Better public realm
More emphasis on local pavement maintenance
Salting and gritting for pavements not just roads
High quality continuous walking routes
Better crossing times and placesSlide16
Cycling for older people
Cycling seen as for young fit men who run over older people on pavements
In the Netherlands around 25% of journeys made by women over 60 are by bikeSlide17
Conclusions
New generation of older people will be more car-dependent
But they won’t all be able to carry on driving
Strategies for an ageing population need to offer alternatives to a car-based lifestyle
Better access to services
Better planning and design of places and housing
Better bus services with new forms of funding
Increased priority for pavement maintenance
Better public realm with high quality walking routes
Make it easy and natural for older people to cycle
And by the way, reducing car dependence will address other problems and help other groups tooSlide18
For more information
Campaign for Better Transport
www.bettertransport.org.uk
stephen.joseph@bettertransport.org.uk
Foundation for Integrated Transport
:
www.integratedtransport.co.uk
and
http://www.transportfornewhomes.co.uk