| Policy Objectives |
Key Route Outcomes |
| Congestion |
Maintenance |
Operation of Route |
Regeneration/ Land Use Planning |
Safety |
Traveller Care |
Environment: Landscape, Biodiversity and Cultural Heritage |
Environment: Pollution and Flooding |
Non-Motorised User Facilities / Community Severance |
Integration of Public Transport and Freight |
Maintain and Develop Relationships |
HGV Facilities and Integration |
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| To identify short and longer term measures to address congestion and seek to improve journey time reliability |
To improve maintenance procedures and target improvements that will seek to improve the operation of the route during maintenance works |
To improve the strategic operation of the Route |
To facilitate and support sustainable regeneration and employment opportunities |
To reduce the number of accidents along the route and improve overall safety |
To improve the facilities that contribute to traveller care along the route |
To enhance the landscape and biodiversity and minimise the impact of the route on Cultural Heritage |
To minimise noise, air and water pollution and the risk of flooding associated with the route |
To provide appropriate facilities for all non-motorised users crossing and travelling along the route and reduce the severance effect of the route on communities |
To improve facilities that will contribute to integration of different forms of public and freight transport |
To maintain and develop relationships with relevant stakeholders and other bodies with an interest in the route |
To improve facilities for Heavy Goods Vehicles and contribute to the integration of different forms of freight transport |
| EY1 |
To reduce congestion at identified locations |
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| EY2 |
To improve journey time reliability e.g. by provision of grade-separation at identified junctions |
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| EY3 |
Supporting sustainable Development and Regeneration where possible in accordance with Highways Agency development control policy |
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| EY4 |
Achieving Best Value in Construction and Maintenance |
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To minimise disruption due to roadworks and incidents |
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| EY6 |
Establishment of the route as a major strategic diversion route to the A1 Western Bypass. |
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| S1 |
To improve safety for all road users |
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| S2 |
To encourage appropriate safe speeds |
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| S3 |
To seek to provide appropriate crossing facilities for non-motorised users, e.g. cyclists, pedestrians and equestrians and to discourage crossing at inappropriate places |
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| S4 |
To provide adequate facilities to cater for safer methods of maintenance |
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| EN1 |
To identify sites where noise levels are unacceptably high and seek to provide appropriate noise mitigation measures |
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| EN2 |
To seek to improve air quality at agreed locations e.g. by reducing congestion |
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| EN3 |
To seek to conserve and where possible enhance existing flora and fauna (including minimising severance effects for wildlife) and to prepare and implement landscape and biodiversity plans for the complete route |
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| EN4 |
To seek to minimise, and where possible reduce, the impact of the route on surface watercourses and groundwater |
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| EN5 |
To seek to minimise the impact of the route on sites of cultural heritage significance and on the character and quality of the built environment |
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| EN6 |
To seek to minimise the landscape and visual impact of the route (including light pollution), particularly in designated and rural locations |
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| EN7 |
To develop (and implement) techniques to ensure that the trunk road is managed according to sustainability principles |
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| EN8 |
To seek to reduce the impact of the route on local communities e.g. by improving the environment and reduce severance for people and communities directly on the route |
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| EN9 |
To actively encourage the provision of appropriate roadside facilities for all road users along the route |
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| A1 |
To address the issues of community severance associated with the trunk road |
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| A2 |
To address the provision of adequate facilities for people accessing public transport services on or via the route (e.g. bus lay-bys) with safe and convenient access |
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| A3 |
To address appropriate and safe crossing/travel facilities at identified locations for non-motorised users including pedestrians, cyclists, equestrians, those with pushchairs and mobility difficulties |
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| A4 |
Work in partnership with local authorities and other bodies, in order to play a full role in supporting non-motorised elements of travel |
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| I1 |
To provide greater clarity for vehicle transport e.g. clear signing to rail, metro and bus/coach stations, availability of travel information, VMS |
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| I2 |
To foster positive relationships with Government departments and other authorities, to facilitate policy integration and co-ordinate activities and responsibilities. |
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| I3 |
To encourage modal shift to more sustainable means of transport. |
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| I4 |
To consider the route as a public transport corridor |
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| I5 |
Take account of local demand management strategies |
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