Factsheets - No.6a: European Best Practice
Looking at Large UK Cities (Glasgow and Manchester)
- UK Cities have the lowest levels of investment in public transport, typically a tenth of Vienna and Munich.
- They compare poorly against overseas in public transport provision - Manchester has the lowest supply of time-tabled services per capita and also has the lowest take-up of services.
- They have the lowest provision of reserved routes for public transport, such as bus priority lanes - Munich (15 route kms per ha) has three times as much as Manchester (5), and Stockholm (13) nearly double Glasgow's (7).
- UK Cities have amongst the highest provision of central area parking (Manchester 348 spaces per 1000 jobs in the central business area and Glasgow, 230) with Manchester having relatively high parking charges, though Glasgow has the lowest.
- Glasgow has the highest spend on roads per capita (215 euros per capita compared with 149 in Manchester, 121 in Munich and 194 in Stockholm).
- The most expensive public transport fares are found in UK Cities.
- They have amongst the lowest costs for car travel - Glasgow has smallest cost differential between using a car and using public transport, which has a detrimental effect on modal choice.
- Glasgow has highest volumes of car travel per capita, despite having the second lowest car ownership.
- Manchester and Glasgow have lowest levels of travel on public transport; (Manchester 535 km per person, Glasgow 876, Stockholm 2294, Munich 2428).
- Glasgow has highest levels of walking trips, although it has the lowest levels of cycling as does Manchester - a fraction of countries with similar climates and geographies such as Copenhagen and Munich.
- Manchester has a low fatality risk, second only to Stockholm - 4.3 deaths in every 100,000 population compared with 3.6.
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