Decision Session - Executive Member for Transport
Set out below is a summary of the decisions taken at the meeting of the Decision Session Executive Member for Transport held on Tuesday, 22 March 2022. The wording used does not necessarily reflect the actual wording that will appear in the minutes.
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4. Consideration of objections received for 2020 Annual Review of Traffic Regulation Order Requests
Resolved:
i. That the following decisions relating to the traffic regulations order requests (Agenda Item 4) be implemented:
a. Danebury Drive implement a lesser restriction than advertised as outlined in Annex A and include a 15 meter double yellow lines on north and south side of Rosedale Avenue at junction with Danebury Drive;
b. Lidgett Grove/Beckfield Lane Junction implement a lesser restriction than advertised as outlined in Annex A;
c. Plantation Drive implement as advertised;
d. Copmanthorpe Lane/Appleton Road implement as advertised;
e. Copmanthorpe Lane no further action;
f. Acaster Lane and Main Street Junction implement a lesser restriction than advertised as outlined in Annex B;
g. The Courtyard no further action;
h. Canon’s Court implement as advertised;
i. Clifton Dale implement as advertised;
j. The Square implement as advertised;
k. Chalfonts implement as advertised;
l. Orchard Way/North Lane Junction implement as advertised;
m.Broadway implement a lesser restriction than advertised as outlined in Annex E and to write to those that will no longer have double yellow lines outside homes be written to about whether they would wish to have white bar markings;
n. Fulford Road that a decision be delegated to the Director for Environment, Transport, and Planning to allow for Officers to confirm that Grange Garth parking bays would also be community parking bays before implementing;
o. St. Mary’s and Frederic Street, R12: GM Parking Bays to complete a further review of the whole R12 zone with a view to all bays within the zone becoming Community Bays;
p. South Lane no further action;
q. Greenshaw Drive implement as advertised;
r. Westfield Lane/Green Dike and Plantation Way Junction implement a lesser restriction than advertised with 8 meter restrictions on Plantation Way north and south side;
s. Village Garth and The Village Junction implement as advertised;
t. Glen Road/Harcourt Street implement as advertised;
u. Monkton Road/Elmfield Avenue implement as advertised;
v. Seventh Avenue implement as advertised;
w.Elmfield Terrace/Stray Garth implement as advertised;
x. Springfield Avenue/Beech Avenue implement as advertised;
y. Severus Avenue/York Road junction take no further action;
z. Acomb Road implement a lesser restriction than advertised as outlined in Annex J;
aa. Thief Lane/Tandem Place implement as advertised;
bb. Moore Avenue/Osbaldwick Lane take no further action until residents petition has been considered;
cc.Yearsley Crescent do not implement and advertise the restrictions on the other side of the street as residents and Ward Councillors have requested;
dd. Nunthorpe Road take no further action until further consultation with Ward Councillors;
ee. Scarcroft Road implement a lesser restriction than advertised as outlined in Annex M and a review of hours of operation of the residents parking zone R48;
ff. Landalewood Road implement as advertised;
gg. Oriel Grove/Rawcliffe Drive implement as advertised;
hh. Millfield Lane implement as advertised;
ii. Glebe Close take no further action;
jj. Askham Croft implement as advertised;
kk.Askham Lane/Grange Lane implement as advertised;
ll. Gale Lane no further action;
mm. Dalton Hill/Main Street implement as advertised.
Reason: To ensure that appropriate changes are made to traffic
restrictions to address concerns raised.
5. Update on action agreed by Executive for City Centre Accessibility
Resolved:
i. That the progress on City centre accessibility and the action plan be noted.
Reason: To update the Executive Member on the progress of agreed actions.
ii. that the dropped kerbs in the city centre programme be prioritised and to be funded from the Pedestrian and Cycling Schemes element of the Transport Capital Budget.
Reason: As part of the access improvement work is the review of dropped kerbs in the City Centre footstreets. The intended funding for this work was subject to a bid, £250,000 to the Department for Transport for Active travel. The announcement on this funding is yet to be made. To mitigate this and to ensure this important work could proceed, one of the decisions at the 18th November 2021 Executive meeting in the “Consideration of Changes to the City Centre Traffic Regulation Order” paper was for the Executive Member for Transport to be delegated authority to fund this work through the Transport Capital Programme in the absence of an announcement from Government.
6. Coppergate Temporary Traffic Regulation Order
Resolved:
i. Noted the improved arrangements have been implemented for a segregated cycle lane.
Reason: Following vandalism the segregation infrastructure for the cycle route have been improved.
ii. Requested officers commence work on the process of formal consultation to make the current arrangements permanent;
iii. Delegated to the Director of Environment, Transport and Planning the authority to confirm the Traffic Regulation Order if no objections are received. If objections are received then a further report will be brought to the Executive Member.
Reason: The current arrangements will need to be removed in June unless a decision is made to make it permanent.
iv. Requested that upon completion of the bus study a further report is brought forward about the future operation of all traffic on Coppergate.
Reason: To ensure the longer term future of Coppergate considers all the potential options.
7. Directorate of Place 2022/23 Transport Capital Programme – Budget Report
Resolved:
i. Approved the proposed programme of Schemes for 2022/23.
Reason: To implement the Council’s transport strategy identified in York’s third Local Transport Plan and the Council Priorities, and deliver Schemes identified in the Council’s Transport Programme, including the Active Travel Programme.