Agenda item

This report sets out a new Local Transport Strategy to support the City of York Council’s new Council Plan.

Resolved:

                      i.         Approved the Local Transport Strategy Implementation Plan which forms Annex A to this report.

Reason: To implement the transport schemes and initiatives which

will support the Transport Strategy adopted by Executive in July 2024.

Officers introduced the report on the Implementation Plan for the Local Transport Strategy, covering the 2024-26 period. They outlined their confidence that the Plan would align closely with the emerging transport objectives of the Mayor of the Combined Authority and future central government policies. They confirmed that work continues the Council’s Movement and Place Plan, which would provide a longer-term plan for implementing transport policy in York. Officers noted that the Implementation Plan contains stretch goals and schemes which the Council did not currently have funding for but would allow for plans and schemes to be developed should funding opportunities become available.

The Executive Member for Transport welcomed the Implementation Plan which she said had been influenced by the Council’s Big Transport Conversation. While the Council developed the Movement and Place Plan, she stated that the 2024-26 Implementation Plan would allow the Council to deliver on things such as a new parking strategy and speed reduction programme. She welcomed the Council receiving the powers to enforce Moving Traffic Offences from the Department for Transport. The Executive Member discussed the potential City Centre Sustainable Transport Corridor and confirmed that the Council would engage with residents about the proposal.

Resolved:

                         i.         Approved the Local Transport Strategy Implementation Plan which forms Annex A to this report.

Reason: To implement the transport schemes and initiatives which

will support the Transport Strategy adopted by Executive in July 2024.