Agenda and minutes

At this point Members are asked to declare any personal or prejudicial interests they may have in the business on this agenda.

Members were invited to declare, at this point in the meeting, any personal or prejudicial interests they might have in the business on the agenda.

Councillor Merrett declared a personal non-prejudicial interest in agenda item 4 (Draft Final Report) as an honorary member of the Cyclists’ Touring Club and as a member of Cycling England.

To approve and sign the minutes of the last meeting of the Committee held on 17 April 2008.

RESOLVED:  That the minutes of the last meeting of the Committee held on 17 April 2008 be approved and signed by the Chair as a correct record subject to the following amendments:

In Minute 38:

Car Accidents – fifth bullet point – the deletion of the final sentence and its replacement with “That the Portsmouth arrangements would not directly transfer into the York situation”;

Contributions to Reducing Traffic Congestion by Major Options

 - tenth bullet point – add in the words “city centre public car parks” following the words “parking demand constraint”;

- twelfth bullet point – addition of the words “public transport” at the end;

- fourteenth bullet point – after the words “Recognition that “ the inclusion of the words “a substantial proportion”.

[Officers confirmed that they would circulate to members the additional information produced in relation to powered two wheeler vehicles and pedestrians as requested in the above minutes.]

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It was reported that there had been no registrations to speak under the Council’s Public Participation Scheme.

To consider the draft final report of the Traffic Congestion Scrutiny Review.

Consideration was given to the draft final report of the Traffic Congestion Ad-hoc Scrutiny Committee whose aim had been to identify ways, including Local Transport Plans 1 and 2 and other evidence of reducing present levels of congestion in York, and ways of minimising the impact of the forecast traffic increase.

Members considered all the information and annexes provided in the report and confirmed that testing of all the long-term strategy scenarios and combinations listed in Annex F would be required.  

RESOLVED:    (i)  That the Committee note all the information provided in the report and annexes;

(ii)         That the following amendments and additional information be included in the report, prior to its consideration by Scrutiny Management Committee: ^1.

·        Paragraph 1 – in the first sentence the deletion of the words “an effort” and their replacement with “order”;

·        The inclusion of a paragraph early in the report detailing what the Committee considered at its various meetings  (details to be added to the final report);

·        Paragraph 4 – the amendment of the second sentence to state that the work was initially produced using the older versions of the Council’s Saturn model, which was later replaced by a new Saturn/multi-modal model in 2006.

·        Paragraph 7 – the addition to the end of this paragraph of the words “The average results hide particular hotspots on certain days and at certain times”.

·        Paragraph 9 – The addition of the word “scrutiny” prior to the word “review” in the first line;

·        Paragraph 14 –

o       Second bullet point the deletion of the word “number” and the addition of the word “proportion;

o       Third bullet point the deletion of the word “maximise” and its replacement with “optimise”;

o       Fourth bullet point at the end the addition of reference to noting that some of the bio fuels involved in food production were causing deforestation.

·        Paragraph 16 – including miles as well as kilometres in this example;

·        Paragraph 20 – in the tenth bullet point the addition of a note that the bus companies had advised that they were looking to improve their compliance with the DDA;

·        Paragraph 27 – amending the example to state that there is evidence which showed a clear correlation between a fall in obesity with an increase in exercise;

·        If possible the alteration of the graph in paragraph 27 to remove the lines against the countries and to display the information as bars;

·        Paragraph 31 - Road Safety – the inclusion of the key road safety graph and the inclusion of a sentence which states that there is some correlation between accidents and volume of traffic, particularly in relation to cyclists, but that it was difficult to establish a direct link;

·        Paragraph 29 – the deletion of the word “Congestion” in the heading and its replacement with “Traffic”.

·        Paragraph 29 – following the words “1999 flows” the addition of reference to the achievement of an ‘excellent’ grading from the Department of Transport for the movement of traffic on York’s roads;

·        Paragraph 30 – deletion  ...  view the full minutes text for item 4.