Buntingford and parishes transport Survey

This survey trys to identify the main destinations/services that people travel to
and then listed the number of other destinations that one or two residents
visited ie under Q1 for work/school College 251 Buntingford residents
stayed in Buntingford but other residents travel to some 106 other
destinations ranging from Brighton to Newcastle - (presuming this is for
college/university).

Also enclose the individual comments made which might make some good
headings/discussion points.

The results of the Survey --------------------- Comments made by the public

Summary of key points

3000 surveys were distributed to households in Buntingford and surrounding parishes.

Responses

Households Residents

Parishes 661 1368

Buntingford 387 737

Total 1048 2105

Villages do use Buntingford for the following services :

Doctors

Dentist

Other key services – Bank, PO, information and other non-food services

Buntingford is frequently used for:

Work/School, College and University

(but residents also travel to some 122 other destinations - presumably work and college/university)

Main food shopping

Leisure/Sporting centre

The bulk of the journeys are by car (in the range 73 –100%) with train,
bus and walking accounting for at most 12% of journeys.

Public transport issues

I enclose some 480+ comments that have been made about transport of which;

185 comments were related to bus services

125 related to public transport

Other comments related to rail, cars, traffic/congestion and roads.

Some of the issues can be resolved by:

Ø better publicity for existing services ie 700 link to Stevenage and Bishop’s Stortford,

Ø developing local community transport schemes.

Ø Others will require a more thorough review, esp. evening services, work and college links.

Way forward

Concentrate on basic issues:

1. Information on existing transport provision:

Ø wider promotion of Area Guide 7, if necessary produce a simplified
area/network map with main destinations and frequencies
.

Ø Village timetables

2. Investigate the potential for some specific changes to existing services:

Ø Extend evening operating times,

Ø links to Royston/Hertford/Bishops Stortford rail stations.

3. Look at developing links to/in villages:

Ø Car sharing

Ø Local taxi schemes for local shopping trips –
including BASH and HAD schemes if appropriate.

I am happy to discuss the full results if the Transport Committee and/or LAP

and individual Parish Councils wish, as I have concentrated on the transport

elements and issues raised by residents.

The survey had shown that the original assumptions about the transport network serving Buntingford
and parishes were reasonable, in that the Transport sub committee identified concerns over access:

Ø to services in the villages

Ø from the villages to Buntingford

Ø services and facilities in larger towns

The survey gives the LAP and partner agencies specific issues to address and how the results
can be fed into local service provision.