Space For Cycling – Fulham Reach

Our ask in the Fulham Reach ward of Hammersmith and Fulham proposes:

protected_spaceSafe prioritised junctions over Fulham Palace Road

Fulham Palace Road is regularly congested and presents only intermittent space for cycling. To enable better use of the existing parallel quiet route improved junctions should provide clear space to enable cyclists to reach this route, thus enabling journeys to change and relieve congestion for all. This would also reduce severance for pedestrians if accompanied with changes in the prioritisation of lights.

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You can support this ask on the main Space For Cycling site, or look at our full campaign promoting Space For Cycling in Hammersmith and Fulham. Or you can read on for our supporting evidence.

Supporting statistics for this proposal

For each of the wards we have combined a series of local statistics on traffic, the use of the local area and air quality to give an idea of the current situations in numerical terms. Each of these are presented in standard tables, followed by some commentary. We’ve attempted to summarise statistics in years between elections, which means the latest statistics are only for three years rather than four (highlighted by a *).

KSI by mode 2010-12* 2006-09 2002-05
Cycle 3 5 0
Pedestrian 5 12 10
Vehicle 10 18 17

KSI is the sum of deaths and serious injuries from collisions. In this ward figures are intriguing. In 02-05 when there was likely less cycling there were 0 cycling KSIs. These have grown to 5 in the following period, but 3 in recent years. Pedestrian KSIs show a more encouraging trend and worryingly this ward shows one of the higher rates for vehicular KSIs. Our wider desire for 20mph zones present a good simple opportunity to tackle this rate for all road users.

Traffic by Mode 2010-12 2006-09 2002-05
Cycle 153 149 100
P2W 91 100 100
Car 91 99 100
Vans 87 101 100
Bus 117 108 100
MGV 81 78 100
HGV 83 100 100
Motors 92 99 100

There are 2 DfT count points in this ward. Taking 2002-05 as a base of 100, it is clear that cycling increased during the 06-09 period and has held steady. Car use is declining somewhat, as are other motor vehicles.

There are 4 schools in this ward with a total of 1430 pupils.

Air Quality (ug/m3 annual mean) 2008 2011 2015 Target 2011 achieved
PM10 19.99 19.06 -31% -5%
NOx 72.18 61.12 -35% -15%
NO2 41.38 37.53 N/A -9%

Air quality in this ward has come inside the EU limit for NO2 (40 ug/m3) in recent years but only just. Reductions in PM10 by 2011 make reaching the 2015 target doubtful.

Census 2011 2001 Change
Cars/Vans 2522 3016 -494
Cars/Vans per 1000 people 266 367 -101
Households 4941 4500 441
with no access to car/van 2856 2135 721
% 58% 47% 10%

In the most recent census we can see that there has been a decline of 494 in cars and vans owned in this ward. 58% of households have no access to a car or van.

Journey to Work 2011 2001 Change
Residents counted 9470 8214 +1256 (+15%)
Not employed 3016 (31.8%) 2838 (34.6%) +178 (+6%)
Homeworker 555 (5.9%) 416 (5.1%) +139 (+33%)
Commuting residents 5899 (62.3%) 4960 (60.4%) +939 (+19%)
Bicycle 497 (8.4%) 248 (5%) +249 (+100%)
On foot 978 (16.6%) 868 (17.5%) +110 (+13%)
Motorbike/moped 111 (1.9%) 91 (1.8%) +20 (+22%)
Car/van driver 661 (11.2%) 901 (18.2%) -240 (-27%)
Car/van passenger 36 (0.6%) 53 (1.1%) -17 (-32%)
Tube 2518 (42.7%) 1970 (39.7%) +548 (+28%)
Train 203 (3.4%) 187 (3.8%) +16 (+9%)
Bus 846 (14.3%) 588 (11.9%) +258 (+44%)
Taxi 19 (0.3%) 27 (0.5%) -8 (-30%)
Other 30 (0.5%) 27 (0.5%) +3 (+11%)

The census shows striking changes in car use again with 27% fewer residents commuting by car. The greatest percentage increase has been in cycling but still only 497 residents commute by bicycle.

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