This meeting was scheduled to consider the adoption of Camden Council's new Transport Strategy Delivery Plan for the period 2025/26 to 2027/28, and the related funding requests from Transport for London to support it. The meeting was also scheduled to approve the minutes of the meeting held on 9 October 2024. Please remember that this summary is based only on the documents that were available to those attending the meeting, and does not describe what was actually discussed.

Camden Transport Strategy Delivery Plan 2025-28 and Local Implementation Plan

The meeting was scheduled to consider a report on the Camden Transport Strategy (CTS) Delivery Plan for 2025/26 to 2027/28¹ and the related funding submissions to Transport for London (TfL). The report explains that since the CTS was adopted in 2019, Camden has:

• Built 18km of new segregated cycle lanes
• Provided 249 new cycle hangars
• Introduced 31 new Healthy School Streets
• Installed 416 new electric vehicle charging points
• Repurposed 1,900 motor vehicle parking spaces for other uses, and
• Provided 1,400 cycle training sessions for adults and children each year

The report explains that:

Although significant challenges remain, we have made extensive progress in delivering safer, healthier streets and travel in Camden since the CTS was adopted in 2019. Camden is currently ranked 4 amongst all London Boroughs by the independent “Healthy Streets Scorecard” assessment.

The report recommends allocating £22m of Council funding to support delivery of the plan, in addition to a range of funding bids to TfL.

Appendix A to the report explains that the plan has been developed by considering a range of factors, including:

• The relative progress made against the targets in the Camden Transport Strategy
• An analysis of road traffic collision data to identify locations with the highest incidence of death or serious injury on the roads
• Feedback gathered from the public and stakeholders via the Council's Commonplace website, and in particular responses to a survey about the plan and an interactive map that allowed people to add comments and suggestions about locations
• Data from TfL including analysis of cycling potential, bus performance, pedestrian severance and so on, and
• The relative need to improve public realm in areas of the borough through urban greening, climate resilience measures and so on.

Appendix B to the report describes the proposed Delivery Plan for 2025/26 to 2027/28. The plan is broken down into a number of programmes, including:

Healthy Routes - strategic cycling corridors & Cycleways

This programme would aim to expand Camden's cycle network in line with the aspirations of the CTS, by providing high quality, continuous, segregated cycle routes on main roads and quieter streets. The report describes a number of proposed in-flight schemes where work is already underway, and new schemes that are scheduled to be brought forward for consultation in 2025/26 and beyond.

The in-flight schemes include completing work on Haverstock Hill, Clerkenwell Road, Goods Way and Crowndale Road.

New schemes include a Cross Camden Cycleway linking Pratt Street to Delancey Street, Hawley Road to Prince Albert Road and Albany Street.

Healthy Neighbourhoods - area-wide traffic management, healthy streets improvements

This programme would aim to expand the network of low traffic neighbourhoods across the borough.

The programme includes a number of in-flight schemes that are already underway, like in the Dartmouth Park and Camden Street areas, and new schemes that are scheduled to be brought forward for consultation in 2025/26 and beyond.

New schemes include in the East Belsize Park, Kingsgate Road and West Hampstead areas.

Healthy School Streets

This programme would aim to make it safer and easier for children, parents and staff to travel to and from school by introducing time restrictions on motor vehicles outside schools. The plan describes how this programme will be delivered in phases over the 3 year period, with the ambition of delivering schemes at the vast majority of schools where these measures are possible (ie those that are not located on main roads) by 2026.

The report explains that the council has also been introducing other measures to improve road safety outside schools that are located on busier roads, and plans to start a similar programme outside hospitals.

Healthy Routes - Bus Priority & Programmes

This programme would aim to protect and enhance bus journey times on key corridors throughout the borough.

A number of bus priority schemes, including new bus lanes, would be delivered at locations including Upper Woburn Place, West End Lane and Brecknock Road.

The plan also includes details about the council's bid to TfL's Better Buses Partnership programme. If successful, this bid would provide Camden with up to £10m over 3 years to work with TfL to make improvements to the bus network and bus user experience across the Borough.

Healthy High Streets

This programme proposes a range of transformational schemes on high streets across the Borough.

This includes the pedestrianisation of a section of Camden High Street as a trial, and the potential to extend this pedestrianisation if it is successful.

It also includes the Better, Safer Kilburn scheme, which is being developed in conjunction with Brent Council and Westminster Council.

Other High Streets that could be the focus of improvements as part of this programme include West End Lane, Regent's Park Road and Charlotte Street.

Healthy Junctions

This programme would aim to improve road safety for all road users at junctions, especially those that have a high number of collisions.

A number of schemes are included in this programme, including a new junction at the intersection of York Way with Agar Grove.

Holborn Liveable Neighbourhood

This programme would continue to deliver the circa £40m transformation of streets in and around Holborn. This would include bringing forward the main scheme for consultation, which includes major changes to Theobald’s Road, Great Russell Street and the Holborn Gyratory.

It would also include delivering a number of smaller STARter schemes. These include new public spaces on Red Lion Street and Keeley Street.

Strategic & local walking schemes

This programme would introduce improvements for pedestrians at various locations across the borough.

A key element of this programme would be the Euston to King’s Cross Wellbeing Walk, which would provide a high quality pedestrian connection between these two locations, alongside road safety, cycling and public realm improvements.

Other strategic and local walking schemes include on Granary Street and Camley Street.

TLRN/TfL-led schemes with Camden input

This programme lists the schemes that are scheduled to be delivered on TfL's road network in the borough, and for which Camden is a partner in the development.

These include road safety and Healthy Streets schemes on Grays Inn Road, Camden High Street and Euston Road.

Cleaner, Fairer Parking & Kerbside Management

This programme aims to rebalance the kerbside in favour of healthier, more sustainable modes of travel and to reduce car use in Camden.

This includes:

• Reviewing and potentially extending the hours of control of existing Controlled Parking Zones (CPZs). The report explains that this will be done using an existing study that identifies priority locations for CPZ reviews
• Completing the feasibility study into a Workplace Parking Levy (WPL) in Camden²
• Continuing to deliver the changes to parking fees and charges that were approved as part of the council's Cleaner Fairer Parking proposals, and
• Continuing to roll out Electric Vehicle Charging Points (EVCPs), cycle hangars, dockless bike hire and scooter bays and so on. ## Behaviour change programmes/complementary measures

This programme includes a number of initiatives to support and encourage mode shift to active, healthier forms of travel.

This includes cycle training for adults and children, a programme of cycle permeability which aims to make it easier to cycle on one-way roads by introducing contra-flow cycling lanes, road safety campaigns, initiatives to deliver actions from the council's Freight & Servicing Action Plan, and a new Healthy Travel Choices programme that will start in 2025/26.

Appendix C to the report contains a summary of 3 focus areas - aspects of transport policy in Camden that the council intends to give particular attention to.

Vision Zero: Spotlight on Motorcycle Safety

This section of the report explains that motorcycles are over-represented in road traffic collisions. It explains that while motorcycles make up around 6% of traffic, they account for 18% of all people killed or seriously injured on the road. The report sets out the following targets for motorcycle safety:

• Reduce the number of motorcyclists killed or seriously injured to less than 8 by 2028
• Reduce the number of motorcyclists killed or seriously injured to less than 4 by 2031, and
• Have no motorcyclists killed or seriously injured by 2041 The report proposes a number of measures that it could take to improve motorcycle safety, including:
• Developing interim targets for reducing the number of motorcyclists killed or seriously injured on the road
• Offering safety training and behaviour change programmes to motorcyclists
• Considering and helping advance a London-wide approach to exploring risks faced by delivery riders, and
• Planning and undertaking infrastructure measures to address known collision hotspots, for example by introducing better cycle facilities on roads that are known to be dangerous for motorcyclists.

Championing Car Clubs

This section of the report explains that car clubs play a vital role in reducing car dependency in London. The report explains that the council is working with Camden's two car club operators - Zipcar and Enterprise Car Club - to improve the uptake of car clubs, and lists a number of ways that it could do so.

The report sets out a number of targets for increasing car club membership and use, including:

• Increase active car club membership in Camden to match levels in other similar inner London boroughs
• Ensure that all Camden households are within a 5-minute walk of a car club bay
• Have 300 new members sign up to a Permit2CarClub scheme over the 3 year period, and
• Install 50 new EVCPs at car club bays.

Better Buses in Camden

This section of the report looks at the performance of Camden's buses.

It highlights the importance of buses to Camden, explaining that:

Buses play an important role in the CTS vision of transforming transport and mobility in Camden.

It goes on to describe how buses are the second most used form of transport, after walking, for residents of the borough.

The report identifies a number of challenges with the borough's bus network:

• Bus speeds in Camden are low (7.2 mph) compared to the average bus speed in inner London (8.1 mph)
• Bus patronage has not recovered sufficiently quickly following the Covid-19 pandemic
• The number of kilometres of bus routes in Camden is low compared to the average in inner London, and
• The number of Camden's bus routes that use electric buses is low (6%) compared to the average for London as a whole (19%).

To improve the bus network, the report suggests a number of initiatives that could be considered. These can be categorised as:

• Bus access improvements
• Bus priority measures
• Bus stop improvements
• Junction improvements
• Bus route development, and
• Better promotion of buses to residents and businesses.

Appendix D is an Equalities Impact Assessment (EQIA) of the proposed Delivery Plan.

The EQIA describes how the Delivery Plan could potentially have a negative impact on people with certain protected characteristics, like disability, religion and sex, and proposes a number of ways that these impacts could be mitigated. For example, it acknowledges that the introduction of bus stop bypasses and floating island bus stops could negatively affect disabled people, particularly those using wheelchairs, and suggests a number of ways that this impact could be addressed. It also proposes a review of the restrictions on taxis that apply in Healthy School Streets, which it is feared could negatively affect some older people.

This document pack does not include any information about whether any decisions were made.