Kidlington Area Transport Strategy

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Objectives

Walking and pedestrian environment

• Improve facilities for all pedestrians (including disabled people) across Kidlington through developing good clear routes from residential areas to the village centre and other services and facilities around the village, along with making sure urban links join up with rights of way.

Cycling

• Develop a series of joined up cycle paths to link residential areas with the village centre and to key local facilities on the southern edge of the village.
• Develop safe and secure cycle parking within the village centre and at key local services.
• Promote cycle routes, across the wider community, as well as continuing to work with schools.
• Improve the village centre, including designs which provide excellent facilities for cyclists such as cycleways, toucan crossings and cycle parking, where necessary.
• Improve connections to the rights of way network particularly where urban cycleways meet rural rights of way.

Public transport

• Maintain a high frequency, quality bus service at a sufficient frequency to catch the number of users wishing to travel by bus between Kidlington and Oxford, and when implemented, to the new railway station at Water Eaton.
• Ensure the core Premium Route bus services to/from Oxford maintains reliable and quick journey times, through the implementation and use of appropriate bus priority measures and ticketing improvements.
• Make sure that new developments are located and designed to encourage the use of the bus, with particular attention to minimising walking distances to bus stops on the strategic inter-urban routes.
• Facilitate the provision of good quality bus information at bus stops and local centres.
• Encourage the use of the bus through implementation of new stops and associated infrastructure (including crossings, cycle racks, etc) when the need arises, and maintaining Premium Route stop standards along the premium routes.
• Increase rail use by ensuring effective integration of rail and bus services by extending smarter ticketing to include the new Water Eaton station, whilst investigating new bus links to the station from areas here there is an identified need.

Behavioural change

• Where appropriate work with organisations and businesses to reduce the occurrence of congestion and its impact. Support suitable information provision and platforms (such as car sharing) to reduce the need to travel and inefficient car use.

Traffic management

• Discourage through traffic in Kidlington where an alternative, major road network is provided, therefore, to increase the village’s safety and decrease pollution.

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Strategy

A new area strategy has been developed for Kidlington as part of the third Local Transport Plan (LTP3) which runs from 2011 to 2030.

Cherwell District Council’s Draft Core Strategy identifies limited growth for Kidlington; however, due to development outside the village and Kidlington’s proximity to major amenities, minor roads in Kidlington need protection from excess traffic, especially where traffic is using these roads to avoid congestion locations on the major road network.

In the third Local Transport Plan (LTP3), Kidlington is classed as one of Oxfordshire’s smaller towns (even though it is a village) as it has population of approximately 15,000. An area transport strategy has been developed for this village:

• Kidlington Area Strategy (pdf format, 366 KB)