Recommendations will now be made to Full Council for approval
Following discussion on future options for travel and transport in Hereford at a meeting on Thursday 3 December, Cabinet members have decided that their preferred approach includes the introduction of measures that provide an alternative to car use including improved facilities for walkers and cyclists and enhanced bus services, along with an additional river crossing to the east of the City.
Cabinet has also decided to recommend to full council that the Hereford western bypass and Southern link road projects are stopped.
The recommendations follow the outcome of a detailed review of the transport strategy for Hereford. The Hereford Transport Strategy Review, which was launched in January 2020, set out to better understand existing and future transport conditions in the City, and to assess alternative options particularly in light of the declared climate emergency and changes to national transport policy.
Cabinet decided its preferred approach for Hereford would include:
- Active travel measures: Walking and cycling, safer routes to school, low traffic neighbourhoods, behavioural change campaign, transport sharing schemes and mobility hubs
- Bus improvements: electrification of the urban bus fleet, school bus services, demand responsive bus services and bus priority measures
- Car park management proposals
- Eastern link river crossing from Rotherwas to Ledbury Road
Further reports are due to be considered by cabinet and full council in January 2021.
The Cabinet meeting papers are available on the council website: http://councillors.herefordshire.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=251&MId=7983&Ver=4