Transport Vision Statement
Aim
Our aim is balanced, sustainable, integrated transport in the Lancashire Branch area.
Objectives
We support mixed land-use planning, on grounds that it reduces the need to travel, and in this context we support teleworking that also facilitates this.
Such land-use planning needs to be integrated with transport planning.
We cover the Old Lancashire boundary on sound environmental grounds. Problems such as cross-border travel needs to be addressed holistically, and our boundary facilitates this.
Transport needs to be accessible, affordable, reliable, and integrated between modes, and is also pedestrian, cycling and emission friendly.
We recognise the great diversity that exists within the Branch area, and whilst being concerned with strategic routes, we will be sensitive to local circumstances in proposing solutions, and in this respect will work with District Groups, especially of the need to avoid creating new eyesores.
We believe that transport solutions need to be created in consultation with local communities, with proper evaluation of alternatives, dispassionate search for cost-effective solutions, and adequate monitoring and correcting of progress.
We will work both pro-actively and reactively in support of these objectives.
11th December 2008
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