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

• 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

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 aims to oppose the Heysham M6 link road and to develop alternative and sustainable solutions to traffic problems in Lancaster and Morecambe which are acceptable to the community as a whole.
• 4 Oct 2004 - Reconciling Environmental and Social Transport Policies from the European Federation for Transport and Environment