Agenda item

Crossrail Reinstatement Projects: Gateway 6 - Progress Report

Report of the Director of the Built Environment.

Minutes:

Members received a report of the Director of the Built Environment which provided an update on the Crossrail reinstatement projects in respect of Farringdon East, Liverpool Street and Moorgate. 

 

Members noted that the urban realm schemes, set out in the report, had been discussed at today’s Planning and Transportation Committee and the key areas of work underway; ie engagement with the Eastern City Cluster community,  the technical work in respect of crowded footways, the management of pedestrian safety and safe deliveries.   The Assistant Director advised that the new Transport Strategy would focus on radical and significant change and was working to a very fast timetable of Spring 2019.  Members noted that bollards were part of the Crossrail Act and would be installed at all new stations and transport infrastructure in the City but in a sympathetic design.

 

The Assistant Director advised that Crossrail would provide 20% extra capacity on the streets and this would assist those commuters who currently feel they need to travel very early or late for a less congested journey.  Members noted that the Planning and Transportation Committee had approved a pedestrian model for the City, for 2018 – 2026, and this information would enable officers to measure and monitor numbers on the street around the Crossrail developments, and to introduce measures such as phasing of traffic signals. Members noted that officers in the Built Environment had been working with Transport for London on the Transport Strategy, and the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Planning and Transportation Committee were making representations to the GLA.

 

The Deputy Chairman (Court) asked the Assistant Director whether the use of 'smart pavement' technology had been considered in the pedestrian model of the City and also whether that might provide certain revenue generation opportunities. The Assistant Director noted that officer work streams had considered a number of ways of monitoring footfall, and that a recent trial indicated that the City had too much footfall in some areas. A member asked for clarification on revenue opportunities and smart pavements. The Deputy Chairman (Court) responded, noting that aggregated data on footfall from embedded sensors in smart pavements might have some commercial application.

 

RESOLVED, that – the report be noted and that the Committee receive an update later in the year on pedestrian data.

 

 

 

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