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The Strategy
A1 Blyth to South of Gateshead
The Strategy
Introduction
A Route Management Strategy (RMS) is being developed by the Highways Agency to provide a ten-year framework for managing the A1(M) between Blyth in Nottinghamshire and Gateshead as part of the wider transport network. This RMS will interlock with Local Transport strategies (set out in Local Transport Plans) within the context established by Regional Planning guidance (Ref para 3.134 "A New Deal For Transport: Better for Everyone"). The final version of the RMS can be viewed here.
The RMS will:
- Assist the Highways Agency in planning and optimising investment in the Trunk/Motorway network.
- Provide consistency, transparency, openness and integration
- Maximise customer focus
- Improve forward planning over a 10 year horizon
Pell Frischmann are acting as consultants for the Highways Agency in delivering this RMS.
Route Functions and Objectives
Draft Route Functions
Strategic:
- Part of the Trans-European and National Trunk Road Networks.
- Part of a major road transport link between England and Scotland.
- The most important road link between the North East and all other Regions (of England).
- Sections of the route form part of the designated heavy and high load grid.
- Provides a major transport link for the movement of freight.
Regional:
- Acts as a major link between regional centres of population and employment.
- For the North East - One of two North-South road links within the region between the Tees Valley and Tyne &Wear.
- For Yorkshire and Humber - The primary North-South road link in the region north of Leeds. Provides an alternative route to the M1 from London to Yorkshire.
- Used as an important route for long distance public and freight transport.
- Provides access for tourism, examples; Yorkshire Dales National Park, North York Moors National Park.
- Provides an alternative route for use in emergencies and during works on other parts of the network.
- Used as a means to access regional airports.
- Used as a means of access to rail interchanges.
Local:
- Provides local, commuter, recreational and agricultural access.
- Provides links between communities.
- A major route to centres of employment, retail, and commercial.
- Provides a distributor function around population centres.
- Provides access to park and ride sites.
Draft Route Objectives
Environment:
- To identify sensitive locations where noise levels are high and propose mitigating measures where appropriate.
- To maintain and improve the route, in reducing harmful emissions from vehicles.
- Use environmentally friendly lighting when replacing existing or providing new systems.
- To ensure effective measures are in place to protect watercourses from pollutant spillage on the highway.
- To minimise the impact of highway improvements on the archaeological and natural environments.
- To work with the responsible authorities, to seek to maintain a clean and tidy route.
- To develop and implement a bio-diversity action plan for the management of the soft estate.
- To reduce visual intrusion and enhance aesthetic quality of route corridor.
Safety:
- To improve safety during all maintenance activities along the route.
- To reduce the number of direct accesses serving private properties and seek to improve turning facilities at the remaining accesses where justified.
- To improve safety of all junctions along the route.
- To improve the safety and security of all motorised and non-motorised uses.
- To encourage road users to travel at an appropriate speed.
- To improve driver information by a high constancy of signing along the route.
- To address the problem of slow moving vehicles along the route.
- To improve road markings along the route.
- Seek to improve facilities for users to rest/breaks in their journey.
Economy:
- To maximise availability for use of the route, and serviceability of the road, structures and other highway equipment.
- To seek to improve journey time reliability.
- To seek to reduce disruption and delays to road users.
- To give priority to the strategic and regional function of the route having regard to the impact on the local highway network.
- To plan all works to achieve optimum whole life cost and minimal disruption to users.
- To improve facilities for Heavy Commercial Vehicles.
Accessibility:
- To reduce community severance wherever feasible.
- To improve, where justified, facilities on the route for non-motorised users.
- To seek to replace at-grade crossings for non-motorised users with suitable grade separated crossing points.
- To seek to improve access to public transport for local communities close to the route.
Integration:
- To facilitate the integration of all modes of travel.
- To facilitate implementation of regional transport strategies and local transport plans.
- To develop closer working relationships with transport providers and other network operators.
- To increase knowledge of user patterns and needs.
