Traffic
The traffic issue poses the greatest challenge for developers Centros Miller but they are not considering reasonable and viable ideas such as a park and ride scheme for the proposed development which would avoid increased air pollution in the city centre. Their priority is to get cars into their shopping centre whatever traffic chaos it might bring to the rest of the city.
If the development goes ahead in its current form, the increased levels of standing and moving traffic will have a multitude of negative consequences for health, safety and daily life in Lancaster.
Centros Masterplan Documents 2007
- Transport Assessment - 96 pages - 13MB
- Part 1 - TRANSYT Traffic Modelling & Evaluation Report - 159 pages - 5MB
- Part 2 - PARAMICS Traffic Modelling & Evaluation Report - 46 pages - 3.5MB
Centros Masterplan Documents 2008
- Transport Assessment Report - 157 pages - 30.5 MB
- Transport Assessment Appendices A-I - 143 pages - 2.5 MB
- Transport Assessment Appendix J - TRANSYT Modelling Report - 181 pages - 2.6 MB
Links
- Following the completion of Centros Miller's Fremlin Walk development in March 2005, this 4 April 06 article on the bestof.co.uk website remarks that the centre of Maidstone is beginning to suffer from gridlock at busy times of the day.
- TSLM is a local group which opposes the Heysham M6 link road and seeks to develop alternative and sustainable solutions to traffic problems in Lancaster and Morecambe which are acceptable to the community as a whole. They lost a public inquiry in 2007 but as of October 08, construction has still not started.
- 4 Oct 2004 - Reconciling Environmental and Social Transport Policies from the European Federation for Transport and Environment