To the Welsh Ministers,
Active Travel (Wales) Act 2013 Reporting Duties
In accordance with the duties under section3(7) of the Active Travel (Wales) Act 2013, please find belowMonmouthshire County Council’s reporton the level of use of active travel routes.
The data available will vary between authorities; therefore the template gives examples for the type of data that can be used.
Number of existing Active Travel Routes / In Monmouthshire, there are 7 settlements covered by the mapping duties of the Active Travel Act. The number of existing routes are as follows:Abergavenny – 1 shared use, 5 walk-only, 2 cycle-only
Caldicot – 5 shared use
Chepstow – 5 shared use, 1 walk-only
Gilwern – 1 shared use, 1 walk-only
Magor – none
Monmouth – 2 shared use, 1 walk-only, 1 cycle-only
Usk - 1 shared use, 1 walk-only
The number of proposed (INM) routes is as follows:
Abergavenny – 27
Caldicot – 21
Chepstow – 14
Gilwern – 7
Magor – 11
Monmouth – 18
Usk – 11
These are either managed as part of the council’s Highway network or the Countryside right-of-way network. Work is ongoing to ensure identification of expenditure directly relating to the ERM routes.
Baseline data at 2016 / 1) Footfall data: The Table shows the footfall at the key town centres over the last few years:
Year / AGV / CAL / CHE / MAG / MON / USK
2017 / Data currently being analysed
2016 / 850 / 280 / 200 / 260 / 80 / 850
2015 / 470 / 240 / 270 / 270 / 90 / 470
2014 / 820 / 340 / 260 / 380 / 50 / 820
(Average hourly footfall across multiple points in each town on a Saturday, peak and non-peak day)
2) Path counters: MCC has a number of path counters that provide walking & cycling data. The following two are on Active Travel routes:
MCC-INM-A3 (Gavenny Bridge):
Month / Count 2015 / Count 2016 / Count 2017
Jan / No data / 2792 / 3889
Feb / No data / 3107 / Data not yet retrieved
Mar / No data / 5109 / Data not yet retrieved
Apr / No data / 6116 / Data not yet retrieved
May / No data / 7830 / Data not yet retrieved
June / No data / 6594 / Data not yet retrieved
July / No data / 7138 / Data not yet retrieved
Aug / No data / 6937 / Data not yet retrieved
Sep / No data / 5326 / Data not yet retrieved
Oct / No data / 5367 / Data not yet retrieved
Nov / No data / 3999 / Data not yet retrieved
Dec / 2639 / 3902 / Data not yet retrieved
MCC-INM-M5 (Dixton):
Month / Count 2014 / Count 2015 / Count 2016 / Count 2017
Jan / No data / 1687 / 1646 / Data not yet retrieved
Feb / No data / 2168 / 1776 / Data not yet retrieved
Mar / No data / 2328 / 2654 / Data not yet retrieved
Apr / No data / 3577 / 2589 / Data not yet retrieved
May / No data / 4783 / 3400 / Data not yet retrieved
June / No data / 3822 / * / Data not yet retrieved
July / No data / 3482 / * / Data not yet retrieved
Aug / No data / 3486 / * / Data not yet retrieved
Sep / 2002 / 3823 / * / Data not yet retrieved
Oct / 1960 / 3330 / 2097 / Data not yet retrieved
Nov / 1599 / 1791 / 1405 / Data not yet retrieved
Dec / 1817 / 1320 / 532 / Data not yet retrieved
* The pyro element into way marker post is damaged by bird on the 29th May 2016. Due to this after 29th May 2016, most of days daily count data recorded is zero or very low in the month June, July, August and September other days daily count data looks good but low compare to 2015.
3) Highway counters: MCC also has a number of automatic traffic counter and cycle counter sites:
- A466 MONMOUTH, North of The Knowle
- A466 MONMOUTH, Dixton Rd nr R/A
- A472 USK, 1Km East of Village
- A472 USK, On river bridge adajcent to town centre
- A472 USK, 50m West of Agricultural College
- A4077 GILWERN, nr County Boundary
- A4077 GILWERN, West of A465 Roundabout
- A4136 MONMOUTH, May Hill @ County Boundary
- A4143 ABERGAVENNY, Merthyr Rd nr River Bridge
- A4143 ABERGAVENNY, South of Waitrose Roundabout
- B4233 ABERGAVENNY, East of A465 on bridge over A465
- B4245 UNDY, East of village nr SSC Overbridge
- B4245 CALDICOT, Southwest of Parkwall Farm R/A
- B4246 LLANFOIST, West of village at 30/40 sign
- B4293 CHEPSTOW, East of A466 Race Course R/A
- B4521 ABERGAVENNY, East of A465 Juncnr Hospital
- R14 ABERGAVENNY, Triley Mill on River Bridge
- UNCL CHEPSTOW, Thornwell, opposite junior school
- NCN 46 Abergavenny to Brynmawr, Llanfoist 46
- NCN 49 Pontypool Basin to Goytre Wharf, Govilon 49
- NCN423 Monmouth to Symonds Yat, peregrine Path
What data was available in your local authority to record usage? / See above
New data at 2017 / Path counters at Usk Island (MCC-INM-U5) shows the following data for 2017:
Month / Count 2017
Jan / No data
Feb / 284
Mar / 1647
Apr / 2869
May / 3808
June / 4959
July / 3299
Aug / 2565
Sep / 1646
Oct / 1754
Nov / 1969
Dec / No data
What data will be available to support the next iteration of this report? / As stated above, options to restart retrieval of data is being investigated.
I confirm that this report will be published online and made available in hard copy on request, in accordance with the statutory Delivery Guidance.
Chief Executive