A new vision for Harlow’s travel and transport network has launched and you can read it right here. It will help residents and local businesses by:
- Cutting congestion
- Shortening journey times
- Improving public transport
- Enhancing walking and cycling routes
- Cleaning up the air we breathe
- Making it easy for everyone to get around in Harlow
Four upgraded and extended travel corridors are also planned.
They will connect residents and a growing Harlow with the town centre.
These will promote zero emission travel from walking and cycling.
And zero emission public transport and private vehicles.
Each travel corridor will enhance and extend the existing Harlow road system and the network of walking and cycling routes.
Modes of travel will be prioritised in this order:
- Walking
- Cycling
- Public transport
- Businesses moving goods and services
- Private vehicles
We want to make journeys such as getting to and from school or a trip to the Doctor or the Hospital or caring for residents at home easy and safe.
This will make sure businesses can move goods and provide efficient services.
People meeting family and friends or out shopping want travel choices that are emission free, safe, affordable, easy and quick.
Our big aim is to have 50% of all trips in Harlow by active and sustainable travel modes.
These are cycling, walking and public bus services. And we’re looking to bump that target to 60% in the proposed new Garden Town communities.
It is an ambitious target and it will not be achieved overnight.
But we are now on the journey.
The Council partners, who are the Garden Town, have come together and shaped a vision for a zero emission transport network for Harlow.
Nowhere in the country has such a unique partnership.
By combining resources, they will help communities to thrive, prosper and combat climate change.
From the New Town to Garden Town, Harlow is leading the way.
