‘ …provision must be made for limited vehicular access’.
We recommend that the conditions around vehicular access should be specified at this stage, and we suggest that delivery vehicles be 2-axle only, and residential car parking be located away from all contact with children’s play areas and front of dwelling houses.
The Street from the CAS to Bateman’s Quay has the potential to disrupt the peaceful space around the Abbey and the Park. We do not approve of a continuous street and believe that the area to the East of the Abbey should be limited to cyclists and pedestrians and should not be traversed by vehicles.
Vehicle access to the entire area must be strictly limited and if parking is required for any businesses on site, then it must be provided elsewhere.
‘Key to the delivery of a successful cycle network is the provision of a complete supporting infrastructure. This includes providing secure cycle parking facilities at popular destinations’. We recommend that this proposal be expanded as follows:
….such facilities will include covered cycle parks (such as that very recently constructed at County Hall), and will provide maximum efficiency in use of space and security measures (such as enclosed lockable pods).
4.1.5 Public Transportation Strategy
‘Public transport policy is primarily bus and taxi service…’. However, at present in the city, potential bus passengers need to be psychic to understand where bus routes begin and end, where stops are located and the times and fares. We recommend adding:
‘information on public transport will be clearly displayed using graphics.
‘Public car parking …is subject to a tariff system.’ The instructions on existing car parking meters in the city are confusing and almost incomprehensible. We recommend that the instructions on the meters should be re-drafted in larger print and include graphic symbols.
Suggestions for the location of off-site car parking would be useful and the provision of such would be of immediate value to the city (as existing car parks
e.g. John’s Green and St Canice’s Church are frequently full), and would encourage pedestrianisation of the centre..