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
	Traffic in the area We have also looked in great detail at how traffic uses the area ...

	For 3 days we stopped 27,000 vehicles at all 9 entry points in the study area and asked drivers about their existing and future travel patterns
	With new/existing computer models, we have a full understanding of traffic/pedestrian movements	We have discovered that almost 20% of traffic that uses the study area does not start or end its journey in Central London

	We know the number of vehicles which use the roads in the study area and in the rest of Central London - the morning and evening peak hours
	From the survey, we now know the breakdown of the different users in the area	80,000 people travel in 50,000 cars - the same number travel in only 4,000 buses