RSS East Of England Plan - Broads Authority

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Section 7 Regional Transport
POLICY T15: Transport Investment Priorities
Investment programmes should be regularly reviewed to ensure they deliver the infrastructure and services
necessary to support the RSS. Investment in transport should be prioritised according to its contribution to the
RTS objectives and outcomes in Policy T1, the priorities and objectives in Policies T2 to T14, and the transport
priorities in the policies for sub-areas and key centres for development and change. Reviews of Local Transport
Plans and future prioritisation exercises for transport investment should reflect these priorities. Appendix A lists the
regionally significant transport investment currently programmed for the region.
The following areas identified in Figure 4 are likely to come under increasing transport pressure as a result of
underlying traffic growth and the development strategy of the RSS:
• the London to Ipswich corridor, including the Chelmsford and Colchester urban areas;
• Haven Gateway, including the Ipswich urban area;
• the London to Huntingdonshire corridor, including the Stevenage area;
• the Cambridge area;
• Essex Thames Gateway, including the London to Southend corridor;
• the Luton Dunstable Houghton Regis area;
• the London to Stansted corridor, including Harlow & access to Stansted Airport;
• Central Hertfordshire; and
• the Norwich area.
Further work in these areas should focus on developing the evidence to establish the interventions needed to
address any problems. Partnership working, such as through multi-agency transportation boards, which have
been established in a number of areas, is encouraged. The information available from the earlier multi-modal
studies and other recent work should be fed into the evidence base.
7.41 Further information is given in Appendix A, including funding sources for currently programmed schemes. The
identification of areas likely to come under transport pressure has been informed by studies for the Highways Agency on
the implications of the RSS development strategy for the strategic road network and for the Department of Transport on
the implications for the rail network.