We support the point about prioritising pedestrian movement. We recognise a difficult challenge in managing the needs of different users, for example allowing sufficient safe space for pedestrians and wheelchair users while allowing somewhere for delivery vehicles, electric scooters and bikes, and taxis to pull up. Some more thought needs to be given to making footways porous for pedestrians, but
protecting them from motorised vehicles. One example might be the provision of inset bays for drop-off of people and goods (with appropriate deterrents against use for general parking in line with Policy I/EV).
How is the local plan going to treat anti-terror architecture, for example the anti-cyclist barrier on Kings
Parade? If this is temporary, as the council claims, the replacement should be planned out and subject to consultation.
We want to see widespread implementation of Low Traffic Neighbourhoods. In particular, the Local Plan should be setting out a plan for low-traffic movement around the city centre, progressing the Making Space for People SPD, and 15 minute neighbourhoods.
The Oxford adopted local plan has a section (V4) on the strategic importance of district and local shopping centres for reducing travel time, and the character and uses of these. Some of the transport problems in Cambridge seem to be to do with people driving to shops which only have one outlet in the city centre and it seems to be worth trying to decentralise this.