Decision details

Red Route - Route 17

Decision status: For Determination

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: No

Decisions:

The Director of Environment and Neighbourhood Services submitted a report providing the Sub-Committee with an update on the introduction of a Red Route waiting restriction along the Reading Buses Route 17 corridor.  A copy of the consultation sample material was attached to the report as Appendix 1, a sample of bus journey times, east side Red Route was attached at Appendix 2 and Red Route Penalty Charge Notices (PCN) issued to the end of January 2019 was attached to the report at Appendix 3.

The report explained that the Red Route waiting restriction had been in place on the east, from the Borough boundary to the IDR, of the Reading Buses Route 17 for just over a year.  The west side Red Route restriction from the junction of Park Lane with Mayfair in Tilehurst to the IDR had been in place since late summer 2018.  Initial enforcement had been limited to busiest periods and had focused on drivers pulling up onto the footway.  Since October 2018 enforcement had been increased to daytime operations using a camera vehicle.

Relatively few comments had been made on the use of the no stopping restriction and those that had been received were very specific to individual experiences.  A sample of bus journey times that had been taken in January 2019 had been compared to the same journey in the same period in January 2018 and had shown promising benefits to public transport.

The report sought to make permanent the east side Red Route restriction and an assessment of the west side would be made and a report submitted to the Sub-Committee in June 2019.

Resolved –

(1)        That the report be noted;

(2)        That the Head of Legal and Democratic Services be authorised to make the appropriate experimental Traffic Regulation Order into a permanent Traffic Regulation Order under the Road Traffic Act 1984, advertised in accordance with the Local Authorities Traffic Orders (Procedure) (England and Wales) Regulations 1996;

(3)        That the issue of parking on the verge and footway within the Red Route as highlighted in paragraph 4.5 of the report be addressed at the next meeting;

(4)        That no public enquiry be held in to the proposal.

Publication date: 11/04/2019

Date of decision: 07/03/2019

Decided at meeting: 07/03/2019 - Traffic Management Sub-Committee

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