Revenue funding is used in Greater Manchester to help address the
shared priorities. In the year 2004/5, the
GMPTA/E spent over £170 million on public transport
revenue costs and the 10 local authorities spent a further £117.5 million on a number of areas including
maintenance and contributing to
Urban Traffic Control.
GMPTA/E and the 10 Local Authorities will continue to use
revenue funding to improve
accessibility, by supporting socially necessary bus services, helping to fund demand responsive transport, contributing to the expanding
nightbus services, working to integrate social needs transport and funding the
concessionary fares scheme.
There have been, and will continue to be, improvements in school travel, via supported services and through proactive work
with
schools to improve behaviour - for example the introduction of yellow school buses and our award winning dingding.org.uk website.
The
bus strategy gives further details on use of
revenue funding to provide safety and security measures in the form of bus station rapid response, and bus 'safer travel officers'.
Performance Improvement Plans (working with specific operators to improve reliability) will use
revenue funding and these are detailed. The strategy also gives information on other improvements that use
revenue funding, such as increasing the number of stops with timetables, improving the journey planner, and improving public transport
for hospitals.
Travel Coordinator posts around Greater Manchester are funded in a range of ways: Department for Transport Funding; directly
funded through their respective councils; and by use of other sources.
Revenue funding is used to help meet the shared priority of
road safety, such as the training young cyclists.
Salford Council have a Kerb Craft Coordinator, training volunteers to help teach road crossing skills to children.
Revenue funding from the DfT supports the
Neighbourhood
Road Safety Initiative
central team, together with a small amount from the ODPM’s Neighbourhood
Regeneration Unit. In some districts Neighbourhood Renewal Funding, made available to the Local Strategic Partnerships, has supplemented
mainstream resources to bring about targeted improvements linked to LTP objectives.
Local Authorities in the Greater Manchester area remain committed to improving the condition of its highway network in support
of the LTP targets and objectives. The capital allocation has been and will continue to be supplemented by
revenue funding to make real progress in halting deterioration and removing the backlog of highway
maintenance work.
Under the
Traffic Management Act 2000 there is a responsibility on all authorities to work towards relieving
congestion. Greater Manchester’s Urban Traffic Control work closely with the ten authorities to identify areas of congestion and investigate
ways of alleviating this. This work is
revenue funded and will work towards LTP Targets and Objectives, together with addressing the shared priority of congestion reduction.
Both our capital programme and the traffic
revenue programmes will complement one another in working towards addressing known congestion points on the strategic network.
