Planning and transport Leeds style
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• A report on the special partnership between Leeds City Council, the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Housing and Local Government into the application of integrated parking. traffic management and public transport policies within the framework of land-use planning was published last Friday.
Entitled Planning and Transport—the Leeds Approach, the report is published in booklet form, with photographs, maps and drawings, and is available from HMSO. price 17s 6d.
The essential features of the Leeds approach are:—
The assessment of the nature, scale and realistic programming of the primary road network and its capacity.
The fullest use of public transport.
The use of parking policies to maintain a balance between the volume of traffic using the network and its capacity.
The use of traffic management to produce an effective circulation system, particularly by increasing the capacity of those streets which have to be retained as part of the primary network.
The exclusion of extraneous traffic from environmental areas, particularly the central area; and in the residential areas the exploitation of the opportunities offered by traffic management and public transport in the design of new residential areas and in the improvement of established older areas.
The special partnership between Leeds City Council and the two Ministries was set up four years ago.