World Squares for All

World Squares for All The picture-postcard image The client identified 4 key requirements People in the area Traffic in the area The studies confirm the need to improve the balance between people and traffic What will happen to people and traffic Trafalgar Square Whitehall Parliament Square St Martin's Place and Northumberland Avenue Horse Guards Parade and Route to River Raleigh Gardens and Whitehall's hidden spaces Old Palace Yard Broad Sanctuary and Residential Areas Consultation Strategy 1 Traffic Strategy 2 Traffic Where will the traffic go? What will the strategies do? Further factors to consider Strategy 1 People Strategy 2 People Design choices Environmental gain/traffic pain A vision for the future	Environmental gain/traffic pain
	Reaching a balanced decision	The hundreds of ideas developed during the study have been grouped together into two Strategies to enable the traffic impacts to be assessed. There are clear environmental advantages within the study area of both Strategies which can be weighed against the impacts of increased traffic congestion elsewhere. In giving us your views, you may decide you like elements from one Strategy combined with elements of the other. There may also be components you do not support in either option. Whatever you decide, please let us know by filling in the questionnaire. Westminster City Council thinks that Strategy 2 will bring real environmental improvements to the study area but it considers that the extra disadvantages to traffic compared to Strategy 1 outweigh the extra advantages for the study area unless wider measures for reducing traffic in central London are introduced. London Transport shares these concerns about Strategy 2 due to the predicted increase in journey times for buses in central London.
	Summary of achievements and objectives	The chart below summarises the achievements of the two strategies and compares them them to the objectives of the brief. We believe that we have gone some way towards achieving a balance between the conflicting requirements of this complex and important site. We need your views to know how to take the strategies further.