Comment

Local Plan Review: Preferred Approach 2016-2035

Representation ID: 910

Received: 03/02/2019

Respondent: Mr Robert Carlysle

Representation Summary:

Given the projections for an increasingly ageing population is a strategy built around the promotion of increased cycling and walking viable in the long term? Similarly, integrated transport systems are to be applauded except that the provision of real-time travel information, upon which the efficiency of such integration depends, relies upon easy internet access through the use of smartphones, thus disadvantaging anyone who either does not have one or who does not feel confident in using same.

Full text:

Given the projections for an increasingly ageing population is a strategy built around the promotion of increased cycling and walking viable in the long term? Similarly, integrated transport systems are to be applauded except that the provision of real-time travel information, upon which the efficiency of such integration depends, relies upon easy internet access through the use of smartphones, thus disadvantaging anyone who either does not have one or who does not feel confident in using same.