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on target / will be delivered

a little behind target but likely to be delivered

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target will not be delivered given current activity programme

Regional Transport Strategy for Northern Ireland 2002 – 2012 (RTS)

Metro - Target for 2012

Current position (at March 2008)

Average fleet age of no more than 8 years.    

Average bus age is 5.9 years.

No bus older than 18 years.                          

Oldest bus is 14.9 years

100% of buses “accessible” according to Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA) definition: ramps / low floor / dedicated wheelchair space

83.5% of fleet fully accessible.

Quality Bus Corridors (QBC’s) operating on 12 main radial routes in Belfast, including a 25% increase in service frequency.  A second phase to achieve a further 25% increase in service frequency.

30.9 km of bus lane inbound (including 8.5km on motorway) and 7.8km outbound; on 10 of the 12 Metro corridors. 

20% additional seating capacity has been provided

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Patronage increase of 33% over 2001 for morning peak.

31% delivered to end 2007/08

Four secure Park & Ride Sites with approximately 500 spaces each and high frequency express public transport connections.

Blacks Road P&R (ca. 250 spaces) commenced operation May 2006; Sprucefield P&R (ca. 300 spaces) commenced August 2006; both operating successfully.

The indicative date of opening for Cairnshill remains Q3/2008.   Current indicative date of opening for Ballymartin / Templepatrick is 2010. 

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Ulsterbus - Target for 2012

Current position (at March 2008)

Average vehicle age of no more than 8 years,

Average bus age is 7.6 years

No bus older than 18 years

Oldest bus is 20.0 years,

No Goldline coach older than 12 years.

Oldest Goldline coach is 8.58 years.

100% of buses including Goldline coaches accessible.

60.2% of Ulsterbus fleet fully accessible; 26.2% of Goldline fleet being accessible.

New route networks in all towns, operating at frequent intervals, 15 hours per day Monday to Saturday and 12 hours on Sundays.

Revised urban services in 23 towns and cities.  Extended operating periods and enhanced regular clock face frequencies adopted in most cases

Hourly Goldline services on key transport corridors which do not have rail services.

Delivered

NI Railways - Target for 2012

Current position (at March 2008)

Retain services north of Whitehead and north and north-west of Ballymena, subject to successful results from the introduction of new trains, with improved infrastructure on the rest of the network.

Services retained to 2009 under “Option 2” of the Railway Review Group (2004/05); track life extension work / removal of wet beds north of Ballymena underway to increase line speeds. 

Appraisal for and design of track relay Coleraine to Derry funded under draft budget 2008/11

All current trains, with the exception of Enterprise services, replaced by new trains, specifically Class 450 replaced by new trains with provision for increased capacity.

All class 80 replaced with 23 new C3K trains.  Funding contained in Budget for NI 2008-11 to replace 13 class 450/80 trains with 20 trains

Patronage increase of 60% over 2001.

50% delivered by year end 2007/08

A halt in / near Templepatrick with park and ride.

Development underway at Ballymartin

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Belfast Metropolitan Transport Plan 2015 (BMTP)

Target for 2015

Current position (at March 2008)

Passenger number increases at the morning peak of 28% for bus (Metro)

31% delivered to end 2007/08

Passenger number increases at the morning peak 67% for rail compared to 2001. 

50% delivered by year end 2007/08

Bus service improvements to focus on the rollout of QBC’s on radial corridors, identifying 14 such corridors with associated high levels of bus priority and improvements of between 25% and 50% frequency on these routes.

30.9 km of bus lane inbound (including 8.5km on motorway) and 7.8km outbound; on 10 of the 12 Metro corridors

20% additional seating capacity has been provided

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The Plan also proposes a number of Strategic Park & Ride facilities at locations further away from the urban centre on the rail network at Carrickfergus, Trooperslane, Greenisland, Lisburn, West Lisburn, Bangor and Holywood and on the bus networks at Sandyknowes on the Antrim corridor, Sprucefield on the Lisburn corridor and Carryduff on the Downpatrick corridor.

Temporary overflow facility (230 spaces) being planned for Carrickfergus – indicative date of opening 2008 Q2.  Current indicative date of opening for Ballymartin / Templepatrick is 2010.  Similarly, expanded facilities at Lisburn, Bangor and Carrickfergus are estimated to open 2011

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The introduction of further bus priority measures on sections of the strategic Motorway network e.g. M1 Corridor between Stockman’s Lane and Lisburn and the M2 at Sandyknowes on the inbound direction between Fortwilliam and Duncrue Street.

Bus lane operational on hard shoulder of M1.  M2 (Sandyknowes) became operational Nov 2007

Local Park & Ride developments at Fortwilliam on the M2 Corridor and Kennedy Way on the Lisburn Corridor, Cairnshill on the Downpatrick Corridor, Millmount on the Newtownards Corridor and at Tillysburn on the Bangor Corridor, providing up to 3,000 spaces with associated bus based public transport services.

Sprucefield Park & Ride commenced August 2006; successful.  The indicative date of opening for Cairnshill remains Q3/2008.

Note - Cairnshill was considered to be the pilot scheme for Fortwilliam, Kennedy Way but as the draft budget only contains service funding for Cairnshill, starting in 2010 the start dates for these other schemes is receding back towards the end of the plan period

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Orbital bus routes are proposed on inner ring road and outer ring road.

Several semi orbital routes in place servicing new retail developments

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The improvements of local bus services in the main urban centers outside the built up areas of Belfast, Bangor, Carrickfergus and Lisburn

Review of Bangor Town and Lisburn City services underway with implementation targeted for summer 2008.  Carrickfergus to follow later in 2008

15% increase in bus speeds to 16.7kph

2007/08 peak hour speed estimated at 12.6kph, a decline by 20.4% over the past 6 years (8.9% in the past year)

An additional target of 20 kph agreed with Roads Service

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