Walking and cycling to and from railway stations
FREE
Getting to a railway station can be difficult. The railway line itself can act as a barrier, severing a community in half with limited connections including dingy tunnels, or poorly maintained and badly lit footbridges that can be no-go zones for women and elderly people. The streets that link to the station are often heavily trafficked, polluted and unattractive. Station forecourts are generally designed around the needs of taxis and car parking rather than passengers.
This event looks at best practice in providing high quality access to railway stations, aiming to provide passengers travelling on foot, by bicycle or bus, safe, comfortable, attractive and direct routes, that will help to make railway use a first choice over the use of a car.
Chair
Jeremy Leach London Living Streets
Speakers
WELCOME
Christopher Martin UDG Treasurer | Urban Movement
KEYNOTE
Christian Wolmar Journalist, Author, Railway Historian, Advocate
Email Christian for a discounted and signed copy of his book, Cathedrals of Steam
FOOTWAYS: MAPPING BETTER ROUTES TO STATIONS
Dr David Harrison London Living Streets
WALKING AND CYCLING: STATE OF THE ART REVIEW
University of Dundee Postgraduate Students
Harry Langdale | Connor McKinley | Yash Parker | Lucy Styles | Martin Walker | Gemma Watson
Covering the psychology of fear, natural surveillance, public lighting, electric bikes, overcoming hills, unbroken walking and cycling networks, streetspace reallocation
SUTTON COLDFIELD: MASTERPLAN FOR CONNECTION, A CASE STUDY
Richard Crutchley Tibbalds Planning and Urban Design
STATION DESIGN AND ACTIVE STREETS
Declan McCafferty Grimshaw, Partner
INITIATIVES AND PROGRESS AT KING'S CROSS
Toby Meadows Network Rail, Programme Manager
Presentations
00:00:00 | Jeremy Leach WELCOME |
00:01:17 | Christopher Martin INTRODUCTION |
00:04:23 | Christian Wolmar A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE |
00:12:25 | Dr David Harrison MAPPING BETTER ROUTES TO STATIONS |
00:24:11 | Lucy Styles 20 MINUTE NEIGHBOURHOODS |
00:29:56 | Yash Parker CONTINUOUS NETWORKS |
00:33:20 | Gemma Watson DESIGNING FOR THE CYCLING EXPERIENCE |
00:38:44 | Harry Langdale ENABLING ACCESSIBILITY |
00:42:06 | Martin Walker COMFORTABLE STREETS |
00:45:14 | Connor McKinley SAFETY AND LIGHTING |
00:49:51 | Richard Crutchley SUTTON COLDFIELD, MASTERPLAN FOR CONNECTION: A CASE STUDY |
01:05:24 | Declan McCafferty STATION DESIGN AND ACTIVE STREETS |
01:21:00 | Toby Meadows INITIATIVES AND PROGRESS AT KING’S CROSS |
Dr David Harrison
Dundee University Postgraduate Students
Declan McCafferty
This event was run by London Living Streets and the Urban Design Group.