Public Transport

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Recent Activity
Background
Vision Objective
Proposals
Rationale

Recent Activity:

Work to develop a Bus Quality Partnership is on-going with a further meeting with the partners to be held early in the new year.

Salisbury Vision is fully supportive of Wiltshire Council's bid for Local Sustainable Transport Funding for Improving Wiltshire's Rail Offer.

Background:

There will soon be five park and ride sites operational on the key entrance routes to the city at Old Sarum, London Road, Wilton and Downton Road. A fifth site is under construction at Petersfinger on the Southampton Road.

The city’s main public transport provider is Wilts and Dorset which runs services throughout the district. The city’s main bus station is located between Rollestone Street and Endless Street.

Vision Objective:

Give public transport users priority by improving public transport facilities and expanding services

Proposals:

Provide key public transport stops next to significant city centre destinations or improve existing stops to cater for the increase in demand. This includes high quality shelters, signage and cycle parking
Complete and implement the Petersfinger Park and Ride
Wherever possible introduce bus priority measures on all Park and Ride routes into the city centre
Consider extending the Park and Ride service to Churchfields
Improve the rail station as a public transport interchange
Provide a west to east public transport link from Churchfields stopping at key destinations within the city centre to Southampton Road. This includes a bus/pedestrian and cycle-only connection from Exeter Street through to Southampton Road

Rationale:

To make it easier to get into the city centre
To help reduce congestion and improve air quality