2010/11 Capital Programme Outturn

BOROUGH OF POOLE

TRANSPORTATION ADVISORY GROUP – 28 JULY 2011

REPORT OF HEAD OF TRANSPORTATION SERVICES ON

2010/11 CAPITAL PROGRAMME OUTTURN

1.1

1.2

Purpose of the Report and Policy Context

To note schemes delivered during 2010/11 and approve the re-phasing of

remaining budget to the 2011/12 Transportation Capital Programme.

The Capital Programme implements schemes that underpin the Council’s corporate

objectives and priorities, and delivers the targets set out in the Local Transport

Plan. Overall the programme seeks to achieve a balance of the associated aims

and objectives.

Recommendations

It is recommended that the Portfolio Holder be requested to approve :

2.1

3.1

3.2

3.3

The re-phasing of budgets remaining in the 2010/11 Capital Programme to the

2011/12 Capital Programme, as detailed in Appendix A.

2010/11 Capital Programme

Details of expenditure on the 2010/11 Transportation Capital Programme is shown

in Appendix A.

The final budget totalled £3,450,290.39 and, of that, £3,250,195.13 was spent

(94.2%).

A breakdown of how the budgets and spend were made up is as follows,

LTP funding

Developer

(Grants, prudential

borrowing & external

contributions)

Other

TOTAL

BUDGET

SPENT

£2,892,201.05

£2,725,769.34

94.2%

£71,330.74

£49,816.83

69.8%

£486,758.60

£474,608.96

97.5%

£3,450,290.39

£3,250,195.13

94.2%

3.4

The balance of the budget is £200,095.26. There are several reasons why this

underspend occurred,

3.4.1 Scheme costs were lower than originally estimated, e.g. the Pay & Display

machine contract and Ashley Road. In this latter case the works originally

included lighting improvements for the Mansfield Road car park but these

could not be undertaken as the car park is leased. Also, a Legal Agreement

to allow lighting to be installed in the access alongside the Co-op has taken

longer to sort out than expected.

3.4.2 Works were delayed or progressed slower than anticipated, e.g. the period of

winter snow delayed some site work. In some cases (Civic Centre bus

interchange, Sandbanks cycling scheme) anti-skid surfacing was delayed to

2011/12 as this is very weather dependent.

3.4.3 Uncertainty about office accommodation, i.e. the £25,000 unspent on the

Bus Priority at Signals contract was because the necessary computer

facilities need to be installed in that accommodation. This situation is still

under review.

As a consequence approval is now sought to re-phase £200,095.26 to the 2011/12

Capital Programme.

3.5

Appendix A shows small budget overspends for Structural Highway Maintenance,

i.e. £2,471.88 for Principal Roads and £90,960.43 for Unclassified Roads. The total

overspend of £93,432.31represents 8.6% of the budget. Approval to the overall re-

phasing would then effectively mean that the corresponding budgets in 2011/12 will

be reduced by these amounts.

JULIAN McLAUGHLIN

Head of Transportation Services

Appendix A - 2010/11 Capital Programme

Appendix B - 2010/11 Highway Structural Maintenance Programme

Appendix C – Detail regarding some of the more significant schemes in the

programme

Name and Telephone Number of Officer Contact: Graham Spicer (01202) 262072

TAG280711T3A

APPENDIX A

TRANSPORTATION SERVICES CAPITAL PROGRAMME

UNSPENT

(rephase to

2011/12)

£0.00

£49,853.13

£0.00

£8,941.37

£0.00

£16,273.85

£0.00

£0.90

£9,622.08

£0.00

£4,687.29

£3,015.36

£92,393.97

2010/11 OUTTURN PERFORMANCE

TACKLING CONGESTION

Ashley Cross improvements

Commercial Rd/ Station Rd improvements

Ashley Rd design (North Rd to Alder Rd)

Ashley Road/ Alder Road/ Poole Rd design

Civic Centre Bus Interchange

Alder Road PTC feasibility

Oakley Hill j/w Oakley Lane

ITS - VMS, CCTV

ITS Implementation : UTMC Database

SED Traffic model

Transport Asset Management Plan

Miscellaneous

Poole Road feasibility

LTP3 advanced design

LTP3 development

TOTAL

BUDGET

SPENT

£5,836.91

£4,363.00

£95,609.18

£456.02

£177,328.67

£1,276.77

£1,455.26

£47,803.41

£2,642.13

£120,353.90

£19,600.00

£158.64

£8,721.45

£52,370.68

£537,976.01

£5,836.91

£4,363.00

£45,756.05

£456.02

£168,387.30

£1,276.77

£1,455.26

£31,529.56

£2,642.13

£120,353.00

£9,977.92

£158.64

£4,034.16

£49,355.32

£445,582.04

TOTAL TACKLING CONGESTION

DELIVERING ACCESSIBILITY

Poole Bus Station Improvements

Bus Facilities - shelters, raised kerbs

Bus Priority at Signals

SW Passenger Transport Information

Safe Routes to School

School Sch 08/09 - Canford Heath F&M

School schemes 08/09 - Ad Astra refuge

Buckholme Towers - Zebra in Sandbanks Road

School 20mph/ School Zones

Corfe Hills Foundation Secondary School Zone

20mph Zone - Courthill First

20mph zone - Merley First

20mph zone - Lilliput First

20mph zone - Stanley Green First

Baden Powell & St Peters SRTS

Branksome Heath Middle/ Sylvan First Schools

Parkstone Grammar (Foundation Secondary)

Oakdale South Rd Middle

Cycling - Darbys Corner cycleway + toucan

Cycling/Walking - Dropped Crossings

Cycling - Sandbanks Rd to Panorama Rd

Cycling - Penn Hill Avenue

Wimborne Rd j/w Tatnum/ Garland Rd to Tcentre

£74.63

£86,615.05

£30,738.16

£22,030.02

£30,511.26

£11,396.07

£4,925.26

£16,754.44

£2,186.19

£697.90

£342.46

£56,379.56

£12,557.66

£7,858.30

£5,295.26

£4,612.76

-£1,388.44

£23,769.00

£37,742.30

£60,396.32

£50,221.65

£74.63

£82,483.10

£5,738.16

£22,030.02

£30,511.26

£11,396.07

£1,990.58

£8,944.10

£232.22

£697.90

£342.45

£56,379.56

£9,978.26

£3,649.14

£3,721.75

£3,759.66

-£1,388.44

£18,860.02

£32,763.65

£57,852.49

£50,221.65

£0.00

£4,131.95

£25,000.00

£0.00

£2,934.68

£7,810.34

£1,953.97

£0.00

£0.01

£0.00

£2,579.40

£4,209.16

£1,573.51

£853.10

£0.00

£4,908.98

£4,978.65

£2,543.83

£0.00

APPENDIX A

TRANSPORTATION SERVICES CAPITAL PROGRAMME

2010/11 OUTTURN PERFORMANCE

Miscellaneous

Pedestrian Crossing Facilities

Ringwood Road Crossing Facility

Nuffield Industrial Estate - Accessibility study

Rights of Way Improvement

Residential Disabled Parking Bays

MSCP replacement Pay Machines

Pay and Display machines-on-street parking and surface car parks

TOTAL

BUDGET

SPENT

UNSPENT

(rephase to

2011/12)

-£2,523.73

£22,222.97

£1,193.73

£1,410.72

£65.57

£0.00

£24,924.83

£30,393.01

£38,164.34

£4,957.52

£21,026.36

£1,652.42

£23,888.44

£247,599.38

£831,397.26

£32,916.74

£15,941.37

£3,763.79

£19,615.64

£1,586.85

£23,888.44

£222,674.55

TOTAL DELIVERING ACCESSIBILITY

SAFER ROADS

The George road safety improvements

Dorset Way/ Canford Way RS improvements

Constitution Hill Rd/ Danecourt Rd RS imps.

ROAD SAFETY STRATEGY

Speed Limit Review

Speed Camera Installation

Specific Road Safety Grant

£720,625.61 £110,771.65

£9,533.28

£39,563.20

£29,590.70

£1,015.94

£50,790.26

£231.11

£25,499.17

£156,223.66

£9,533.28

£39,563.20

£24,542.64

£1,015.94

£35,864.94

£231.11

£25,499.17

£136,250.28

£0.00

£5,048.06

£0.00

£14,925.32

£0.00

£19,973.38

TOTAL SAFER ROADS

MAINTENANCE

Highways (see Appendix B for detail)

Principal Roads

Non - Principal Roads

Unclassified Roads

Street Light Column Replacements 10/11

Bridges

CANFORD BRIDGE EXCEPTIONAL SCHEME

Canford Bridge Phase 2 preliminary work

Gravel Hill Embankment

Towngate Bridge Bearings and Joints

Canford Suspension Bridge

Poole Bridge Approach Spans

£145.00£2,616.88

£155,837.71£155,837.71

£925,118.09 £1,016,078.52

£227,414.01£214,972.44

£45,250.74

£219,513.88

£750.00

£279,078.78

£14,476.95

£0.00

£33,878.72

£211,692.46

£750.00

£264,280.08

£12,036.00

£0.00

-£2,471.88

£0.00

-£90,960.43

£12,441.57

£11,372.02

£7,821.42

£0.00

£14,798.70

£2,440.95

£0.00

TOTAL MAINTENANCE £1,867,585.16 £1,912,142.81 -£44,557.65

Major Developer Contribution Schemes

Hunger Hill Gyratory

Marston/ Bay Hog Gyratory

Poole Bridge Approach spans feasibility

Old Orchard Plaza

Shapwick Road Footbridge

Yarrow Road/ Fancy Road link

£15,771.06

£33,104.96

£2,000.00

£868.01

£4,529.36

£834.91

£57,108.30

£15,771.06

£16,599.38

£156.39

£868.01

£2,199.55

£0.00

£35,594.39

£0.00

£16,505.58

£1,843.61

£0.00

£2,329.81

£834.91

£21,513.91

TOTAL DEVELOPER

TOTAL CAPITAL PROGRAMME

£3,450,290.39 £3,250,195.13 £200,095.26

APPENDIX B

HIGHWAYS STRUCTURAL MAINTENANCE EXPENDITURE 2010/11

LOCATION

Principal Roads

A350 Holes Bay North R/A

A35 Commercial Rd (Glenair Ave to Parr Street)

Old year scheme

Retention on Old year scheme

£145.00

£2,471.88

£2,616.88

TREATMENT

SPENT

Total Principal Roads

Non-Principal Classified Roads

C304 Penn Hill Ave (Kings Ave to St Osmunds Rd)

C312 Constitution Hill Rd

C/way resurfacing

Old year scheme

£150,695.89

£5,141.82

£155,837.71

Total Non-Principal Classified Roads

Unclassified Roads

Cromer Rd (Wroxham Rd to Yarmouth Rd)

Livingstone Rd (Uppleby Rd to Victoria Rd)

Abbotsbury Road

Egmont Rd (scheme to span two financial years)

Alton Rd (No.10 to Conifer Avenue)

French Road

Canford Magna (No.11 to Oakley Lane )

Small Footway Schemes

Planned Patching

Special Drainage

Marlott Road

Wharf Close

Dalkeith Rd (Ettrick Rd to The Avenue)

Guernsey Road

Arrowsmith Road

Ashley Road

Canford Cliffs Road

Rowland Avenue

Lower Golf Links Rd (Golf Links Rd to Moor Rd)

Dale Road

Hawkins Road

Roman Rd (Upton Way to Gladelands Way)

LIDLS re Allens Lane

Old year scheme

Kerb & f/way reconstruction, c/way resurfacing

C/way major strengthening 60/40

C/way resurfacing

Kerb & f/way reconstruction, c/way resurfacing

C/way resurfacing

Major strengthening 150/40

C/way resurfacing

£111,053.39

£90,687.17

£60,510.50

£113,489.43

£66,779.38

£28,902.55

£31,060.10

£23,681.24

£115,783.92

£108,509.32

£36,963.08

£26,448.41

£24,834.25

£80,905.75

£55,743.01

£9,741.94

£23,988.73

£2,117.22

£2,438.66

£3,040.60

£369.87

£30.00

-£1,000.00

Total Unclassified Roads

Grand Total

£1,016,078.52

£1,174,533.11

APPENDIX C

2010/11 TRANSPORTATION CAPITAL PROGRAMME

Comments are included below covering the more significant schemes in the programme.

TACKLING CONGESTION

Ashley Road

General Traffic Management measures to reduce congestion, avoid delays to

buses whilst reducing air pollution and improving road safety are being considered.

The first phase of this, to encourage better utilisation of the existing car parks using

improved signage and some lighting improvements, has been completed.

Civic Centre Interchange

Bus services between Poole and Bournemouth currently carry nearly six million

passengers a year. The high frequency of the M1 and M2 services in particular

means there are approximately 30 buses an hour on these services. The majority

of buses travelling in the Poole direction pass down North Road and then onto and

around the Civic Centre gyratory before exiting back up Fernside Road towards the

Shah of Persia. This route can take several minutes, particularly at peak times,

which is now saved by making the existing bus link by the clock tower two-way.

This potential time saving here has long been recognised by the bus companies as

capable of making significant improvement to the timetable and reliability, hence

increasing the attractiveness of using a bus in preference to the car on this busiest

of routes.

Over 260,000 bus passengers each month are now benefitting from the new priority

measures, which has reduced journey times on the main Bournemouth - Poole

route by up to four minutes. The existing bus link by the clock tower at the Civic

Centre has been widened to allow a two way flow of buses. This allows direct

access to Fernside Road for westbound buses instead of having to negotiate the

busy Civic Centre roundabout. In addition to delivering quicker journeys, the new

route saves 18,000 bus miles and 3,000 gallons of fuel every year. All road users

have also benefitted from a significant reduction in vehicle movements on the

gyratory. Other improvements to the area include new pedestrian footpaths and an

easily accessible bus stop for students from the adjacent Poole College.

Civic Centre Bus Interchange

Footway improvements

ITS Strategy

This element of the Capital Programme is designed to meet the needs of the

Intelligent Transport Strategy as proposed initially by Mouchel and most recently by

Atkins. This year‟s works were split into three distinct elements. (i) Upgrade 6 no.

traffic signal junctions to web based controllers, with another 3 junctions being

funded through other budgets. (ii) Convert existing strategic variable message

signs (VMS) from radio control to GPRS communications (iii) Convert existing car

park VMS from radio to GPRS, i.e. similar to mobile phone technology. The traffic

signal junction upgrades were put on hold due to uncertainties about staff/office

locations but is now back on track to be completed shortly. The strategic VMS

conversion is now complete and enables messages to be displayed within seconds

of them being entered into the instation PC, whereas before it took up to ten

minutes for the messages to change. Unfortunately it has not been possible to

upgrade the car park VMS as the on-site equipment is not currently suitable for

adaptation to GPRS. A suggestion on the way forward with these signs will be

brought to a future TAG meeting.

SED Traffic Model

2010/11 BoP contribution to the Partnership funded SE Dorset Transport Study

enabled the finalisation of the Transport Study, which has formed the basis of the

long term transport strategy recently adopted in the 3rd Local Transport Plan for

Bournemouth, Poole and Dorset. The strategy has been developed in line with DfT

guidance and backed up by the technical evidence base using the multi modal

transport model, which in turn will strengthen bids for transport funding from central

Government, including the recent Local Sustainable Transport Fund (LSTF) bids.

LTP3 Development

The local authorities across Dorset have, or are in the process of, setting out

proposals for new housing levels, economic growth and other local priorities within

their Core Strategies. The Local Transport Plan (LTP3) was developed within that

framework and sets out a strategy that complements those proposals through:

Minimising the need to travel;

Improving the strategic network;

Managing and maintaining the existing network more efficiently;

Providing Public Transport alternatives to the private car;

Giving choices of active travel and „greener‟ travel choices;

Making travel safer;

Managing demand for private car use.

ACCESSIBILITY

Bus Stop Facilities: Shelters/ kerbs

New bus shelters have been provided at Runnymede Avenue, Lagland Street and

Waterloo Road (Plantation Road), the latter following a petition from residents from

the nearby elderly person‟s dwellings. Raised kerbs to permit flat, level access to

the bus for wheelchair users and parents with buggies have been provided at a

number of locations including North Road, Wallisdown Road and Rectory Road.

As part of this programme some

additional funding (£10,000) was

provided by Bournemouth University to

extend the raised bus stop outside the

University.

School schemes – Canford Heath F&M and Longspee

The need for an improved route to these schools was identified during discussions

regarding the renewal of the School Travel Plans for Canford Heath First and

Middle Schools and for the draft Travel Plan for Longspee School. In addition, an

increasing number of cyclists had been using the footpath between Harwell Road

and Learoyd Road to gain access to the Nuffield Estate. The existing path has now

been widened to provide a segregated cycle facility, which improves access and

safety for both pedestrians and cyclists using the path. We were successful in

gaining a grant of 50% of the cost of this scheme from Sustrans, as part of their

Links to Schools project.

Foot/ cycleway to Learoyd Road

Footpath imps. in front of school

Ad Astra Refuge

A refuge in Adastral Road, near the junction with Sherborn Crescent, has been

widened. This is a popular crossing point at school times and the widened facility

makes this much easier.

Corfe Hills Foundation Secondary School Zone

A School Zone was created in Higher Blandford Road for this school. The scheme

comprised static and variable message signs. The latter, vehicle activated, signs