MyJourney West Yorkshire, a new 15-year Local Transport Plan (LTP), setting out West Yorkshire’s transport needs and ambitions until 2026, has been published.
The Plan is now available to download as a series of .pdf files: a printed summary document is also available.
You can also download the results of the consultation exercises held during the preparation of the Plan (pdf, 1.61Mb), and which helped to shape it.
Drawn up after widespread consultation with the people of West Yorkshire, the Plan is entitled ‘MyJourney’ and has three main objectives:
- Economy To improve connectivity to support economic activity and growth in West Yorkshire and the Leeds City Region;
- Low Carbon To make substantial progress towards a low carbon, sustainable transport system for West Yorkshire, while recognising transport's contribution to national carbon reduction plans;
- Quality of Life To enhance the quality of life of people living in, working in and visiting West Yorkshire.
The Plan sets out to tackle congestion and a lack of transport investment which are key contributory factors to lower than average economic performance in West Yorkshire. It also aims to prepare for the predicted, post-recession growth in employment, population and housing and their impact on the reliability of the transport network.
Four themes run through the Plan to help ensure it achieves its aims.
- Transport Assets focusing on the existing components of the transport network such as roads, bus stations & stops and traffic lights to ensure we are getting the most value out of them
- Travel Choices enabling customers to make the most sustainable choices about when and how they travel
- Connectivity ensuring people can make integrated and safe journeys using transport networks on which they can rely.
- Enhancements improving the overall network to make it more fit for journeys in the future.
Additionally the Plan also concentrates on ensuring equality and safety, improving the county’s natural and built environment, appropriate decision-making processes.
In addition to the LTP and the Appendices there are several supporting documents that will be made available during the first year of the Plan:
- Network Management Plan;
- Transport Asset Management Plan;
- Information Strategy (including the requirements of the Bus Information Duty);
- RailPlan7;
- District Implementation Plans;
- Integrated Sustainability Appraisal and ISA post-adoption statement;
- The Rights of Way Improvement Plans.
The Integrated Sustainability Appraisal (ISA) (pdf 1.39Mb) and two appendicies (Appendix 1 (pdf 3.6Mb); Appendix 2 (pdf 1.9Mb)) are also available.
