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The Mayor’s Ambient Noise Strategy Mayor of London 115 other issues. Transport for London works with stakeholders through the London Sustainable Distribution Partnership to address rail freight issues. policy 35 The Mayor will urge the Strategic Rail Authority and the rail industry to ensure that schemes and facilities that transfer freight to rail are developed and implemented in a co-ordinated way which limits local noise and vibration impacts to a practical minimum, taking into account that much rail freight currently moves during the night. Noise and vibration-minimising freight routeing and infrastructure initiatives should be promoted. New schemes and assessment 4B.37 The Mayor supports early improvement of London’s rail links to the continental European high speed rail network. Dealing properly with the particular effects of high speed rail is one reason for the high construction cost of Phase Two of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, from Southfleet in north-west Kent, into St Pancras, via a new Stratford International Station. Much of this will be in tunnel or will include measures to deal with noise and vibration. 4B.38 The Mayor’s Transport Strategy promotes a number of new schemes to increase public transport capacity, including extending the East London line northwards and southwards, increasing Docklands Light Railway capacity, a new east-west Crossrail linking Stratford, the Isle of Dogs, the City and Paddington, new Thames Gateway River Crossings, and in the longer term, an additional Crossrail linking South west London and Hackney. The Transport Strategy (Policy 4L.6) also encourages the development of high levels of public transport access to London’s Airports, at Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Luton and London City. This will help to minimise road traffic congestion and traffic noise. The noise and vibration implications of projects will need to be assessed as the schemes are prepared and consulted upon. As well as promoting conventional rail schemes, the Transport Strategy aims to bring forward new forms of light transit, such as trams and light rail. Box 38: Assessment The White Paper on Integrated Transport 6 set a policy framework for assessment. Schemes are to be assessed against five criteria: environment, safety, economy, accessibility and integration. The document ‘Planning Criteria: A Guide to the Appraisal of Support for Passenger Rail Services’, 7 reflects this policy approach. Guidance has also been produced for the study of options incorporating more than one mode of transport. 8 For major projects, the Strategic Rail Authority has indicated that it expects the scheme’s proposer to conduct a full environmental impact assessment,
116 Mayor of London The Mayor’s Ambient Noise Strategy which would include noise issues. For other projects, the level of detail would depend on the size of the scheme and level of impact. Small scheme should still have regard to possibilities to incorporate costeffective measures to minimise noise and vibration. 4B.39 Methods of scheme assessment will need to evolve, reflecting changes at the European level, and UK national policy towards ambient noise, and responding to improvements in the available technologies. Understandable information needs to be conveyed to the public. Ambient noise mapping will be useful, but other information may also be required. Noise needs to be part of multi-criteria assessment which is, where necessary, multi-modal. policy 36 The Mayor will urge proposers of major rail schemes and light transit projects to minimise any adverse impacts of noise and vibration, using the best available cost-effective technologies. The noise and vibration impacts of schemes should be assessed along with other criteria, and understandable information conveyed in public consultation as proposals are brought forward.
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