Comment

Representation ID: 45881

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: Transport for West Midlands

Overall TfWM welcomes the land use options presented in this chapter and that predominantly the Strategic Centres and Core Regeneration Areas are the primary focus for sustained regeneration and infrastructure investment to support the delivery of growth. These locations are already served by an extensive public transport system and provide the most suitable locations for economic and housing growth from a transport perspective.

However, with the extent of growth planned, there will be limited capacity for travel on the existing networks and modes and while the transport chapter presents an array of schemes to assist with this growth, the traffic modelling datasets and evidence (setting out the travel demand across all modes) is still missing. This means it is unclear whether the potential mitigation measures which might be required to minimize and manage the travel demand increase will be enough to off-set the growth and support wider social, economic and inclusion objectives.