The Local Transport Plan 2011 to 2021 (PDF) strategy sets out a plan to tackle Bedford Borough's transport problems.
The vision is to create a transport system in which walking, cycling and public transport are the natural choices of travel for the majority of journeys because they are affordable, healthy, convenient and safe alternatives to the private car.
As LTP3 will run until 2021, we will need to review and adapt it on a regular basis, to ensure that it continues to address relevant issues and change. A key aspect of the Plans's development has been working with partners and stakeholders and we will continue to involve them in its further development and in the implementation plan. We will also continue to consult and engage the public.
We have undertaken a number of consultation exercises and stakeholder participation events and we will now consolidate all feedback into a report which will be published here shortly.
Local transport strategy plan LTP2 (PDF)
In July 2012, Bedford Borough Council was awarded grant funding from the Government’s Local Sustainable Transport Fund. The project is titled “Access to Stations” and is aimed at improving cycling and pedestrian links to Bedford’s two railway stations. We are working with seven other local authorities around the Country and Sustrans, the national cycling charity, covering 21 stations in all.
The overall project fund is almost £5 million over three years with £665,000 allocated to Bedford. The intention is to focus on physical improvements to help rail commuters choose walking and cycling as their preferred travel mode to and from the railway station. The way the funding is administered means that we will be able to support physical improvements with publicity and targeted information.
The Transport Policy team undertakes a number of traffic monitoring programmes, which enable us to both plan future improvements to travel in Bedford and to monitor the effectiveness of the improvements we have made in the past. The following document reports the results of some of those monitoring programmes, and shows how traffic levels vary in Bedford by location and time.
Traffic Data Report 2012 (PDF)
We worked with stakeholders and the public to develop the Local Transport Plan (LTP3) which runs until 2021. LTP3 was approved by the full council on the 23rd of February 2011 and came in to effect on the 1st of April 2011, as the Council's transport policy. On 1st April 2011, Bedford’s first Local Transport Plan (LTP3) replaced LTP2 (2006-2011) which covered the whole county.