CityConnect – Programme Overview
Fiona Limb, CCAG Programme Manager, WYCA
• West Yorkshire’s Cycle City Ambition Fund Programme
“more people cycling and walking more often”
• c£55m of DfT and Local Match Funding
• Economic and Health benefits
• Aims to create a modern, and safe cycling and walking environment –
high quality product
• Infrastructure projects supported by Comms & Engagement and
Monitoring workstreams.
• Delivered in two phases by 2018
• Partnership between WYCA, Districts and other 3rd Parties (CRT,
Network Rail and others).
CityConnect Programme: Phase 1
Canal Towpath Upgrade
14km completed July 2015
CS2 Leeds – Seacroft
6km Superhighway
Completion Sept 2016
CS1 Bradford – Leeds
16km superhighway
Completed June 2016
Phase 2: Highways Schemes
Bradford Canal Rd
Link from greenway to City
Centre
Huddersfield Town Centre
• Improved access across inner
ring road
• Permeability within town centre
• Links to greenways
Leeds City Centre
Superhighway extensions
City Centre cycle loop
CS3 City Centre – Elland Rd
Phase 2: Off Highways Schemes
Canal Towpath Upgrades
• 2.7km Leeds – Liverpool
• 4.6k Huddersfield Narrow
• 2km Calder - Hebble
• 13km Rochdale
York Scarborough Bridge
Additional cycling deck
Wakefield – Castleford
Riverside Greenway
Bridge upgrades
Governance and Delivery
• Programme Board:
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WYCA – SRO and Programme Management
Quality Assurance
Cross boundary – 6 Districts and WYCA represented
Cross Sector – Public Health and Transport representation
Stakeholder/User representation - Advisory Group chair
• Projects level:
• Cross-boundary working (e.g. Calderdale – Canals; Leeds – Superhighway)
• Cross-sector delivery (public health and transport leading projects)
• Monitoring and Evaluation…..Communications and Engagement – separate
projects (+ budget and resource)
Communications and Engagement
Consultation & Communication
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Reduce the risk to the programme - early involvement of all
communities and stakeholders
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Improve the design through input from users & local communities
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Interactive website and Social Media
98 Face to face sessions and events
Newsletters
Door to door distribution where required
Use opportunities offered by other events
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Engaged with 22,000
13,000 responses
78% of people were in support of the scheme
53% people would use cycle the route
No major objections
Engaging and empowering
Media Campaigns
CityConnect Cycles
Bike Friendly Schools
Encourage use of the new facilities engagement with and
encouragement of potential users
“The Bike Friendly Business scheme is an invaluable tool
for identifying best practice and what we can do to
make our cycling offer even better and ultimately get
more people at the University on bikes!”
Cycle Hubs
“My mental health and
stress levels have
improved greatly. My
daughter and my son are
coming out with me and
my husband has bought a
bike to cycle with me. It
has benefited the whole
family” - (CityConnect
Cycles beneficiary)
Monitoring and Evaluation
Cycle Superhighway Daily Cycling 2016
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Monitoring and
Evaluation
Bradford Rd Stanningley
Armley Rd
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Avg daily usage
• Programme Wide robust monitoring and
evaluation plan
 Demonstrate benefits realisation
 Inform future active travel interventions
• Baseline monitoring including:
 Screenline counts / Towpath counts /
Speed Surveys / Accident data / Cycle
Parking counts / Household surveys
Comparable post scheme monitoring:
ACCs / User Surveys / Screenlines /
Household Surveys
Burmantofts Killingbeck
Nov
Dec
Early Results…
User Numbers
- LL Canal Towpath - 43% increase in weekday flows
- Western Cycle Superhighway - consistent and rising
improvements (100,000 total trips recorded to date)
User feedback
Practitioner Feedback
Lessons to note……
• Consider use of “Advisory Group” – user input?
• Cross Boundary Project Mgmt
• Cross Sector working – involvement of Public health
• Top slice for Comms and Engagement & Monitoring and Evaluation
• Design Standards and practice emerging – review and audit
• Integrate with other schemes and programmes – add value