Jurassic Coast Transport Infrastructure Gap Analysis Study

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5.3.10 The waiting environment at the bus stop is fair. There is a shelter with aperch seat. The area is clean but the bus timetable case has glue or stickytape marks on it which makes the small text on the timetab les harder to read.Interchange Facilities5.3.11 Axminster rail-bus interchange has a good range of facilities. The railwaystation has a staffed ticket office open throughout the day, toilets, a selfserviceticket machine, a full range of information leaf lets and standardtimetables, an electronic departures board on the platform and another in theticket office. The station has good signage and there are also luggage trolleys.There is a café on the station p latform with indoor and outdoor seating on theplatform. It is open from early morning to early afternoon. There is a publictelephone outside the station.Likely Usage‘The main bus service through [Uplyme] is the No.31 service from Weymouthto Axminster…Unfortunately, this service is nearly always late, so do not relyon it if you have a tight transfer at Axminster’‘There is a station cafe where a hearty breakfast and a mug of tea can bebought while you wait for the train [after the one] you missed because thebus was late.’[Browne 2008]5.3.12 The Axminster Rail-Bus interchange is likely to be well used on weekdays andSaturdays, but is less usef ul on Sundays. The buses serve a range of coasta ldestinations with a good service frequency and journey time. From Monday toSaturday, the connections in both directions (Exeter and London) work wellwhen travelling to the Jurassic Coast. Connection times from the JurassicCoast are poor in the London direction, where a wait of around 50 minutes isusually required. Whilst wait times for Exeter trains tend to be short, delaysaccrued on the 31 bus service over its 2h 20min journey from Weymouth oftenresult in advertised connections being missed (and consequent very long waittimes). However, On Sundays the b us-rail connections are, in general, poor,and the 885 bus does not operate.5.3.13 Service 31 is financially supported by the two County Councils. Steps shouldtherefore be taken at the time of contract renewal to ensure improvedDoc No 3 Rev: B Date: November 2008 91G:\Final Report Web version\CTR-ADA Study Report Rev9.4. doc
connections are in place (especially from bus to rail, with consideration oflonger wait times sufficient to account for delays on service 31). It isacknowledged that, with another bus-rail connection at Dorchester South,competing connection needs make these difficult to reconcile.5.3.14 Service 885 is a commercial service and therefore DeCC cannot directlyinfluence the timetab le, although the bus operator may still be open tosuggestions as better connections may increase their passenger numbers.5.3.15 Rail add-on fares are availab le for onward bus travel to Lyme Regis. Thesecost £2.80 for a single or £3.20 for a day or period return. No add-on fares areavailab le to Seaton.Other comments: p lanned changes to rail services5.3.16 An hourly service frequency will be introduced on the London Waterloo toExeter line from December 2009 and the longer-term aspiration tocomplement this with an additional hourly Exeter to Axminster service [DeCC2007a, Network Rail 2007]. The introduction of these new rail services (withthe assumption that this allows ‘clockface’departure times - i.e. sameminute past each hour) should offer the opportunity to create much betterconnections with appropriate wait times (i.e. sufficient to account for delayson the 31 bus). The hourly frequency will require a passing loop to b econstructed in the Axminster and Chard Junction area; this may necessitatethe reopening of a second platform. Should this be necessary, it has beenassumed that Disability Discrimination Act regulations will ensure that suitab lestep-free access is created to link this new p latform to the facilities availab leat the main station building.Other comments: Bus Access5.3.17 The station approach road from King Edward Road is relatively narrow and canprove problematic for buses approaching the station if vehicles are queued upthe hill to the junction.Doc No 3 Rev: B Date: November 2008 92G:\Final Report Web version\CTR-ADA Study Report Rev9.4. doc
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Jurassic Coast Transport Infrastruc
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Contents1 Introduction 11.1 Backgro
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authorities (LPAs) - East Devon, Pu
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Table 2.2: Selected planning polici
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2.5.4 Most of the study area has de
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Table 2.3: Potential car bus interc
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a1) Existing public car parks2.6.2
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- Land at Bowd Cross, between Newto
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2.6.17 Two sites have been identifi
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Page 72 and 73: complicated timetable or a lack of
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Page 78 and 79: 4.7.9 Whilst local residents using
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Page 82 and 83: that DRT are comp licated by their
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Page 92 and 93: Joint working- DoCC should work clo
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6.9.7 A certain amount of pro-activ
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and timetable information, whereas
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Figure 6.10: Stop-specific timetabl
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effective partnership between the b
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close working between the three mai
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6.12.7 Whilst various circumstances
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6.16 Summary & Recommendations6.16.
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7 Partnership working7.1 In troduct
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of different organisations involved
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8.1.5 Although it is unrealistic to
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8.1.14 Although RTPI systems are ex
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WDDCWDLPWest Dorset District Counci
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Appendices
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Appendix A: Detailed information on
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FleetChicker ellWeymouth(Wyke Regis
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Appendix BBus Stop Access Audit
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IssuesTraffic speed or volume? No f
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Appendix C: Types of Demand Respons
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unfamiliar with it. Given that maki
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Passenger feedbackAs detailed passe
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• Are the connecting bus services
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