- An area-wide approach to reducing traffic and improving travel (including walking, cycling, car use and public transport) that treats all stakeholder groups equally and fairly, and is genuinely open to all options.
- A set of concrete, measurable objectives that any traffic and travel scheme must meet.
- Co-operation and compromise by all those involved. It’s unlikely that everyone will get everything they want.
- Detailed analysis of the reasons for journeys and the obstacles that prevent drivers from choosing alternative modes of travel (for example, poor public transport) in order to find practical solutions.
- Baseline data on traffic and air pollution over the wider area before any scheme is implemented, even as an experiment.
- A comprehensive Equalities Impact Assessment before any scheme is implemented, with meaningful input from groups representing those with protected characteristics (such as the elderly, people with disabilities, pregnant women, and new mothers).
- A commitment to making travel to school safer and healthier for all children across Dulwich and the surrounding area.
- To help stakeholders identify what works best, a range of actions that enable people to use private motor vehicles less, and encourage them to choose public transport and active travel more, in addition to technically feasible road measures. Carrots are needed, not just sticks.
- Separate discussions with individual stakeholder groups to discuss and agree a solution that works for Dulwich – which may well be different from solutions applied elsewhere.
- Post-implementation monitoring of traffic and air pollution over the wider area in order to evaluate change, and regular checks with stakeholders to ensure the solution works for everybody.