Infrastructure Delivery Plan (Feb 2013) - Runnymede Borough Council

• A317 - runs through Weybridge town centre, through Addlestone, to join the
M25 at junction 11
• A318-runs from Chertsey to Byfleet
• A319-runs from Lightwater to Chertsey
• A320-runs from Guildford through Ottershaw and Chertsey within the
Borough and up to Staines
• A30-runs from Hounslow through Egham within the Borough and eventually
on to Land’s End
• A308-runs from Brompton to Maidenhead, running through Staines and past
the Runnymede Meadows at the northernmost part of the Borough
6.20 Traffic flows on A roads in Surrey are far higher than the national average, averaging
21,400 vehicles per day (Annual Average Daily Traffic (AADT)), 64% higher than the
national average of 13,079 vehicles per day (Surrey County Council, movement
monitoring report, 2008). This means that there is significant amount of traffic passing
through the Borough on a daily basis. The Surrey Infrastructure Capacity Study (June
2009) notes that the ‘traffic volume over capacity (V/C) ratio’ is particularly problematic
on the A318 Chertsey Road, and on the A320 Guildford Road. Surrey County Council
has also identified the Runnymede Roundabout as being, ‘highly problematic in terms
of severe queuing and delay to motorists’.
6.21 The car is the preferred mode of personal transport in the Borough and over two thirds
of people travel to work by car in Runnymede, making it the most heavily relied upon
mode. This is 7% higher than for England as a whole. In terms of sustainable travel,
England as a whole has nearly doubled the amount of people travelling to work by
sustainable modes of transport (such as public transport) than Runnymede (14.5% and
8.2% respectively) 18 .
Figure 12-Changes in Car per household 1981 - 2001
6.22 The 2001 Census revealed that there were 46,061 cars in Runnymede (see Figure 12
above). This data was based on the Census 2001 data set that was updated in 2007
and showed that 46,070 cars were in Runnymede, which equates to 1.46 cars
per/household as set out in Table 7.
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State of Runnymede Report 2004 – Section 9 Travel
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