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Transport

Delivery of PUSH’s growth strategy depends crucially upon the achievement of objectives around transport and accessibility.

Traffic in South Hampshire continues to grow year on year. Traffic flows on most of the M27 motorway exceed its built capacity. Although this motorway is part of the Trans-European Network, it is used to a large degree by local journeys within the sub-region. Car ownership continues to grow, with 80% of households having one or more cars; and the car is used for 61% of all journeys to work. Although bus use has declined, rail use in South Hampshire has continued to grow over recent years. There has been little or no expansion in capacity to cater for this growth on the road and rail networks.

The growth now envisaged by the South Hampshire Strategy would impose additional pressure on the transport networks. Congestion and delays already affect individuals and businesses. On some sections of the road network, very serious delays would occur by 2026 without significant action.

Transport for South Hampshire

Transport for South Hampshire (TfSH) is PUSH’s partner in delivering economic and housing growth in the sub-region and leads on addressing existing and future transport requirements. It is the over-arching strategy, bidding and delivery agent for sub-regional transport projects, programmes, policies and strategic operational matters. The transport partnership has its own business plan which includes a number of key proposals on which TfSH will be working with PUSH in order to implement the South Hampshire vision. Its overall approach is to emphasise the need for a reduction in the need to travel, better public transport options and improved management to optimise use of the network (road and rail), as well as selective and targeted investment in additional road capacity particularly on the strategic corridors (incl. M27, M3 and A3(M)).

Transport for South Hampshire website