Space For Cycling – Ravenscourt Park

Our ask in the Ravenscourt Park ward of Hammersmith and Fulham proposes:

removalAschurch Park Villas is used as a rat-run despite existing calming

Despite previous attempts to calm the road, Ashchurch Park Villas is a rat-run used by through motor traffic. This not only causes problems for local residents but also creates crossing traffic which endangers vulnerable road users. A scheme needs to be devised to further calm this link but retains through cycling.

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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 4 6 2
Pedestrian 2 8 12
Vehicle 3 9 15

KSI is the sum of deaths and serious injuries from collisions. In this ward there have been some improvements in safety for those in vehicles, but cycles appear to remain overly represented.

Traffic by Mode 2010-12 2006-09 2002-05
Cycle 106 161 100
P2W 85 146 100
Car 78 99 100
Vans 96 139 100
Bus 96 110 100
MGV 102 175 100
HGV 82 101 100
Motors 81 105 100

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 but then seemingly dropped. Car use is declining rather dramatically in recent years.

There are 6 schools in this ward with a total of 2495 pupils.

Air Quality (ug/m3 annual mean) 2008 2011 2015 Target 2011 achieved
PM10 20.45 19.46 -31% -5%
NOx 76.12 63.28 -35% -17%
NO2 42.1 37.92 N/A -10%

 

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 3119 3538 -419
Cars/Vans per 1000 people 375 431 -56
Households 4819 4739 80
with no access to car/van 2315 2045 270
% 48% 43% 5%

In the most recent census we can see that there has been a decline of 419 in cars and vans owned in this ward. 48% of households have no access to a car or van.

Journey to Work 2011 2001 Change
Residents counted 8310 8212 +98 (+1%)
Not employed 2589 (31.2%) 2932 (35.7%) -343 (-12%)
Homeworker 787 (9.5%) 633 (7.7%) +154 (+24%)
Commuting residents 4934 (59.4%) 4647 (56.6%) +287 (+6%)
Bicycle 449 (9.1%) 257 (5.5%) +192 (+75%)
On foot 620 (12.6%) 555 (11.9%) +65 (+12%)
Motorbike/moped 110 (2.2%) 110 (2.4%) 0 (0%)
Car/van driver 723 (14.7%) 1063 (22.9%) -340 (-32%)
Car/van passenger 46 (0.9%) 53 (1.1%) -7 (-13%)
Tube 2206 (44.7%) 2026 (43.6%) +180 (+9%)
Train 182 (3.7%) 139 (3%) +43 (+31%)
Bus 548 (11.1%) 389 (8.4%) +159 (+41%)
Taxi 18 (0.4%) 17 (0.4%) +1 (+6%)
Other 32 (0.6%) 38 (0.8%) -6 (-16%)

The census shows striking changes in car use again with 32% fewer residents commuting by car. The greatest percentage increase has been in cycling but still only 449 residents commute by bicycle.

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