M62 - Your Local History
A lot of finds were uncovered during the archaeological evaluation carried out for the M62 Junction 6 Improvement scheme so we thought it would be nice to provide an interactive website so you can see what we found.
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Lane Hog!
John Stapleton looks into why people Lane Hog and what effects it has on the driver hogging the lane and other road users.
Educating tomorrow's drivers
See how we are driving through key messages about safety on our network for the drivers of tomorrow.
Meet the Ancestors
Find out about the history of roads and the work the Agency does to preserve archaeological remains.
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2005-2006 Travel Plan Site: Solent Business Park / Whiteley Village: M27 Junction 9, Hampshire
Background
This area is a mixed development, including over 60 employers, a retail outlet village, a superstore, and several hundred dwellings. There are approximately 3,500 employees on Solent Business Park which forms a large part of the site.
Problem/Opportunities
The site currently has only two road accesses. The main access is via M27 junction 9, the second is a heavily traffic-calmed minor residential road. Junction 9 is heavily congested at peak times with severe queuing onto/off the M27.
The Whiteley Business Forum approached us for help in relieving congestion through highway improvements. The Forum enthusiastically welcomed our proposals to develop an Area Travel Plan and helped introduce travel plans to individual companies.
Hampshire County Council are developing schemes for improved cycleways and a bus-only access into the site. This will allow, for the first time, a high quality bus service into the site, and greatly improve current shuttle services to and from Swanwick rail station (run by business on site).
We developed a partnership with Hampshire County Council, and the Whiteley Business Forum to progress this work.
A community web-site has been developed for Whiteley to support the implementation of the travel plan. This initiative went live in November 2005 and recently won an innovation award from the Association of Commuter Transport. The Whiteley-wide car sharing service is now available via this website.
The Whiteley Business Forum have now taken on the lead role on site and have identified champions to help take the process forward.
A significant number of the relevant employers volunteered staff postcode data to enable trip mapping and Hampshire County Council funded benchmark surveys on site. These were supplemented by HA funded surveys at M27 Junction 9.
Next steps
Hampshire County Council and the Forum have agreed to jointly fund an area travel plan coordinator for the first 2 years. The coordinator is expected to be in post by April 2006.
Travel data is being constantly supplemented/updated with staff travel survey responses via the Whiteley Area Travel Plan website. Several hundred completed surveys have already been submitted, allowing the basic mapping previously produced to be tailored to individual companies and staff travel modes.
Timescales
Hampshire's new bus link scheme is expected to be completed by summer 2006 and new timetables are now being developed in discussion with bus companies to exploit the link's potential. The new Area Travel Plan Co-ordinator will undertake extensive promotional work on the run up to the link's opening and beyond.
Monitoring
We are planning to conduct a further travel survey in 2006/07 along with traffic monitoring to measure the impacts of the travel plan in terms of trip savings.
