These are exciting times for Oxfordshire The county is thriving economically, particularly in science and innovation The county council has been a transport innovator in the past The challenges ahead mean we must and will continue to innovate in future Today I will set out the Scale of the challenges and opportunities ahead What we are doing right now
• Oxfordshire today • Growth pressures • County council’s role • Plans for 2014 – 2020 • Ideas beyond 2020 • Debate and your views
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Oxfordshire is thriving
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One of the lowest unemployment rates in the country Highly skilled and educated workforce Knowledge based industries and services built around hi-technology businesses and spinning out from the universities and health sector Oxfordshire is amongst the top five Technology Innovation Ecosystems in the world, home to 1,500 high tech firms employing around 43,000 people. 100 years of car manufacturing. Plant Oxford employs 4000 people. 2.4 million cars have been made at Plant Oxford since 2001, exported to 108 countries.
Oxfordshire is growing
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More houses, more jobs, more shops
Seattle
Silicon Valley
Sao Paolo
Shanghai Tokyo
Oxford
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Oxford is a global player – competing with international cities of Shanghai, Tokyo, Seattle, Sao Paulo
Edinburgh Glasgow
Manchester Liverpool
Cardiff
Cambridge
London
Oxford
Oxford
Banbury
Witney
Wantage
Oxford
Abingdon
Didcot
Henley
Bicester
85,000 By 2031
new jobs in Oxfordshire
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Ambitious growth plans for Oxfordshire – will add pressure onto the transport network – doing nothing is not an option…
106,000 By 2031
new homes in Oxfordshire
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Ambitious growth plans for Oxfordshire – will add pressure onto the transport network – doing nothing is not an option…
Bicester
Oxford
Science Vale Oxford
• 10,000 homes • 20,000 jobs
• 9,000 homes • 14,000 jobs • Retail expansion – including Westgate
• 16,000 homes • 20,000 jobs
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Growth focused in three localities Bicester Oxford Science Vale = Knowledge economy spine
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The county council has a key role to play as transport authority in planning and enabling growth. This role is increasingly important as the county’s transport networks come under ever greater pressure…
70,000 The A34 in Oxfordshire carries
vehicles per day
102,000 The M40 in Oxfordshire carries
vehicles per day
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A34 carries 70,000 vehicles per day M40 carries 102,000 vehicles per day Congestion costs people and businesses time and money and holds back growth
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Congestion costs people and businesses time and money and holds back growth BMW!
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Important to remember where we have come from – this is Carfax in the late 60s/early 70s
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And this is High Street today… ….and reduced the number of buses in the city centre. SmartZone = first ticketing scheme of its kind in the UK. One of the cleanest bus fleets in the country – first Euro V LEZ for buses in the UK – started 1 Jan 2014. Bus operators have invested millions. BUT there are still too many buses in parts of the city centre Growth in the city and county means the number of buses in the city centre is expected to reach and even exceed pre-Transform Oxford levels in the next ten years….
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And this is Queen Street pre-transform Oxford in 2008
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Transform Oxford vastly improved Queen Street….
2034?
1974 2014
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So what’s the plan? We’ve come a long way. Oxford had the first P&R system in the world. Traffic on routes into city centre has reduced by an average of 24% since 1993 – despite growth in the city and county But fundamentally the strategy now is no different from in 1974 We now have over 5000 P&R spaces. The buses are hybrid electric. But the principle is the same BUT WHERE DO WE WANT TO BE IN 2034…
2014 - 2020
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Firstly, chance to let you know the scale of growth and number of schemes that will take place in our key localities over the next 3-5 years…
Local transport New P&R - 2014
A41 improvements - 2015
M40 Junction 9 - 2014
Bicester Town Station - 2015
Trains to Milton Keynes & Bedford - 2016
Oxford – Marylebone service - 2015
Oxford Parkway - 2015
Southern Approaches –
2014/15
London Road cycle/bus
scheme - 2014
Electrification - 2016
Trains via Bicester to: Marylebone – 2015 Milton Keynes & Bedford – 2016
Northern Approaches –
2014-16
A40 improvements
2017-19
Witney
City centre
Milton – 2014/15
Chilton – 2014/15
Didcot Station
Science Vale Oxford Culham
SC
Wantage Harwell link road Section 1 2017/19
Milton Park EZ
Winnaway cycle route 2014/15
Harwell Oxford EZ
Featherbed Lane 2015/16
Local transport The Plain & Longwall St junction – 2014/15
Queen Street - 2017 Frideswide Square & approaches – 2014/15
Station improvements – 2017-19
Westgate - 2017
Oxpens
Electrification
Trains via Bicester to: London Marylebone – 2015 Milton Keynes and Bedford – 2016
New road layout for Westgate - 2017
Rail
Oxford station master plan
Didcot station master plan
Banbury
Bicester
Didcot
Bedford
Oxford Parkway station
Birmingham & The North
Bristol & The West
The Midlands The North
Bicester Town station
From Oxford to: Existing Time New Time
Bicester 26 minutes 15 minutes
Milton Keynes 85 minutes 45 minutes
Bedford 150 minutes 60 minutes
High Wycombe 60 minutes 30 minutes
Heathrow Airport 90 minutes 45 minutes
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Electrification – 2016 to Oxford and the west; EWR Phase 1 – 2017 EWR Phase 2 – 2017 EWR Electrified by 2019 WRATH – 2020/1 Master plans for Oxford and Didcot stations as Oxfordshire’s two main gateways to the rail network
Beyond 2020
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So that’s what we already know that we will do but how about post 2020 – I have some ideas that I want to share with you but these aren’t final answers just ideas and I want your input into what the transport future of Oxford needs to be…
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Could we continue the success of Transform and pedestriainise George St???
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New ways of informing people as they travel Better, easier ways to pay for travel (Smart Transactions) – Lobster + contactless payments New ways of travelling – driver-less vehicles Wireless charging of electric buses
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How about mass transit for the city centre - moving more people with less impact Less noise, less pollution, less space, better passenger experience
