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Do you want to start a thread about transport policy? A lot of people interested in that might not read a thread on housing. Sending Poole- Weymouth/Dorchester traffic along the northern route sounds very sensible apart from the congestion on the road into Weymouth from Dorchester until the relief road is built. At the moment they need to go down through Crossways/Warmwell to avoid this. The distance is very much the same as going via Wareham and I though this was the route most people used now that most of the road west of Wareham has a speed limit. I would think its quicker although its not a journey I ever need to make so I can be certain.
Have you seen a traffic survey on journeys through Sandford? It would be interesting reading. I suspect a lot of it is from the estates that line the road having unwisely been permitted without the needed transport infrastructure being provided.
When the train line is eventually connected to Swanage a park and ride at Holton Heath would remove a proportion of tourist traffic from tha A351 as would a marketing campaign to persuade visitors from Poole and Bournemouth to come by train. Somehing like a third of our visitors start their journey in the conurbation so this could have a big impact if properly handled.
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You could start at http://www.dorsetforyou.com/index.jsp?articleid=2579
Thank you, its an interesting document.
It says one of the aims is "to minimise the need to travel through spatial planning". I look forward to PDC opening offices in Swanage and Upton to that staff and service users in these locations do not have to travel to Wareham. They have a lot to put in order in their own house before they can be taken seriously on this.
I am please to note we can expect better buses. Last time I went to Poole on one it took half an hour for my aging back to recover from the contortion of being squeezed into a seat meant for midgets.
The minimum, frequency for a proper public transport service is three times an hour. Thats what you need to provide if you want to get people out of their cars. Not an hourly service. This is going to cost money. Are the electors ready to pay for it or do we have to wait until all the rural roads grind to a halt.
I have just read a bit more. This is complete topsy turvy land. The document says there should be more "suitable" employment within the district to reduce commuting but as soon as they are asked about doing anything to help people work in Swanage the response of PDC is to say that members want new employment to be at Winfrith. By what magic, one wonders, is a car trip to Winfrith from Swanage not commuting but one to Poole is?
All funding for bus service subsidy is now being subsumed by the free oap travel scheme. Development of employment opportunities within the immediate area will mean development of greenfield sites, major infrastucture improvements and a complete culture change at PDC, county nd national level. We seem to be stuck with what we've got.
Developing employment opportunities locally does not have to need large scale infrastructural improvements. It depends very much on the type of business. If each new job here eliminates a two way journey to the connurbation, or even Winfrith, and generates less than one return trip here daily by customers/clients there is less pressure on the roads.
The madness of the present district policy is that a 6 or 8 mile trip over the ferry to work in Bournemouth is a bad thing because it goes out of district but a 15 mile drive to Winfrith is OK because it stays within the district. Both members and officers give every appearance of being able to believe at least two mutually exclusive things at the same time.
We need to develop a vision for a local economy based on the types of business that can function here, which limits us to creative, media and knowledge based businesses. The alternative is that Swanage becomes nothing but a retirement colony.
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