Traffic in Towns
I'm Traffic in Towns - also known as The Buchanan Report – I was published Nov 25th, 1963. I shaped how much of the UK looks and how you move around. OGL V3.0
https://trafficintowns.uk - now digital from Nov 25th, 2024 in 250+ languages.
- “seems to be the only way of saving the old city from a descent into such chaos that eventually an irresistible demand will arise for it to be swept away” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...
- “The severance of these areas by heavy traffic flows would be extremely detrimental to the environment. Most of these sub-areas have strong ties with each other” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...
- “Yet, on any count, a speed of 30 m.p.h. is too great at any time in any part of the old city. Public opinion might not be prepared for a move in this direction at the present time” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...
- “it is estimated that the number of vehicles seeking to enter the old city daily, exclusive of through traffic, would increase to about 76,000 by 2010” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...
- “if the environment is sacrosanct, and if no major reconstruction can be undertaken, then accessibility must be limited. There can be no question about this” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...
- “to remove large numbers of buildings in the centre to make way for car parks would destroy the traditional compactness, and encourage more vehicles into the area” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...
- “Yet to provide additional car parking facilities in the centre would be the surest way of increasing the amount of traffic using the already congested streets” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...
- “This potentially high standard of environment is, however, lowered by the effect which vehicular traffic is having upon it…” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...
- “There is still a great deal of pedestrian movement, but the pattern has changed with the changes in land use” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...
- “The traffic on these roads is mainly destined for Norwich, but in summer there is a higher proportion of through traffic than at other times of the year caused by vehicles bound for the holiday resorts” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...
- “Altogether, in the small area of the old city, there are 400 buildings or groups of buildings which have been listed under the Town and Country Planning Act as being of historic or architectural interest” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...
- “We wish to make it quite clear that this study is in no sense put forward as a plan for Norwich” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...
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- “It seems to us that the restraint is bound to fall primarily on the use of the private car for travelling to work, and this has vitally important implications for public transport.” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...
- “There is in fact scope for several quite different arrangements whereby pedestrian and vehicle movements can be separated” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...
- “Erection of garages is now in progress, and is likely to go on until there is provision for at least one car per family… ownership is showing itself in a marked increase of traffic within the area” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...
- “We have called this technique ‘environmental management’. It should be distinguished from ‘traffic management’, which is solely concerned with the movement of vehicles” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...
- “We estimate that 115 acres, or 48% of the central area would need to be redeveloped to achieve this plan. This includes land for roads and parking garages” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...
- “We think this is a case where the advantage lies in placing the road in a cutting with pedestrian links across it, with retaining walls suitably designed to reduce the noise’ trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...
- “We then examined the central area in more detail, with the object of determining the broad nature and scale of the changes required…’ trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...
- “The primary network comprises about 70 miles of road, about three quarters of which would be new roads mostly of motorway standards“ trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...
- “Out of 67,000 daily shopping journeys into the central area from outside, we assumed that 64%, or 43,000 would eventually be made by car” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...
- “The study showed that great variations exist in the carrying capacities of the existing roads.” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...
- “We then examined the central area in more detail, with the object of determining the broad nature and scale of the changes required” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...
- “The primary network comprises about 70 miles of road, about three quarters of which would be new roads mostly of motorway standards” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...
- “we examined the whole city in order to determine the possible arrangement of the city into groups of environmental areas” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...
- “But it is abundantly clear that the scale of the primary network is markedly influenced by the extent to which private cars are used for the journey to work.” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...
- “This theoretical network takes no account, of course, of local environments, existing development, or physical features, nor does it take account of any through traffic” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...
- “The outline of our calculations will have made it clear that work journeys by car accounted for the greater part of the traffic volumes that would arise” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...
- “The estimated daily total number of journeys arising under these conditions would be slightly over 1,000,000” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...
- “These journeys were by far the most difficult to analyse because of their great variety, and the dearth of information about the generation of this class of traffic” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...
- “On the basis of these assumptions we estimated the number of daily shopping journeys to the central area at 67,000 of which 64% would be by car and the remainder by public transport” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...
- “Car ownership in Leeds is at present slightly below the national average, but we assumed it would reach the future national figure of 400 cars per 1,000 population in the year 2010.” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...
- “To ascertain the direction and volume of the three main kinds of movement we employed the same ‘gravity model’ technique that we used for Newbury.” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...
- Reposted by Traffic in Towns“Between 1969 and 2001 3,532 people died during the troubles. During the same period 7291 died on the roads.” sluggerotoole.com/2025/02/04/r...
- “The main feature of the land use pattern of Leeds… is the close proximity of the principal industrial areas to the central business area.” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...
- “to assess the number and character of the vehicular movements, to indicate the scale and pattern of alternative distributory road networks, to indicate the impact of increased traffic…”
- “Following on from our study of Newbury we turned our attention to a much larger town, selecting Leeds with a population of about half a million” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...
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- “The great danger for the future would seem to lie in the temptation to seek a middle course by trying to cope with a steadily increasing volume of traffic by means of minor alterations, resulting in the end in the worst of both worlds” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...
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- “we think the establishment of purely ‘out-of-town’ centres in the American style is a potential development that requires careful watching…both for the harm… and for the acute risk” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...
- “if comprehensive redevelopment can be organised and financed on a sufficient scale, then the highest standards of environment can be combined with a very high level of accessibility.” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...
- “The environmental conditions are thereby improved, and the concentration of much of the car parking into a multi-storey garage improves accessibility for the business area” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...
- “If this ownership level increases as expected… the number of parking spaces required is likely to be between 4,000 and 5,000… 2,000 spaces would be needed for long-term parkers” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...
- “These conditions led us at once to the conclusion that for the main streets the choice was limited either to having no traffic in them at all, or a very limited amount under strict control” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...
- “the disagreeable conflict between pedestrians and vehicles, and most streets are used as car parks… vehicles parked in all odd corners. The market square functions… as an open street market & trunk road.” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...
- “We are confident we have not exaggerated this, and that this is the scale of construction required in a town of 37,000 population, with a surrounding population of about the same size” trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...
