Worsley and Boothstown Community Committee

Transportation: The Big Question

In May 2007 Worsley and Boothstown Community Committee produced a transportation questionnaire to seek local views on bus and train services, attitudes to congestion and tested the acceptability of “congestion charging”. This paper presents the results.

The survey was unstructured. If it was a structured survey designed to produce one result – a bit like a survey for a media advert – then you would never see the full results to all the questions. Here you can visit the questions and make your own correlations and draw your own conclusions.

The survey (reproduced as Appendix One) was mailed to a random list of people who had previously signed a petition about bus facilities in the Worsley and Boothstown area. The survey questionnaire was also freely available on paper throughout Worsley, Boothstown and Ellenbrook  as well as being available as an email with simple and clear instructions on how to respond. About 800 paper copies were distributed and about 300 individual emails were sent out. No information was sought or derived to record the identity of anyone.

There was no “complete by” date and all questionnaires returned by the 1^st August 2007 were included in the final analysis. However we were looking for an early indication to guide a Special Community Committee meeting on Transportation held in July 2007. The preliminary results guided our speakers and experts on how they gave their presentations.

The survey also took advantage of the summer 2007 publicity surrounding the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive’s (GMPTE) bid for £3billion of Transport Innovation Funding from central government (commonly referred to as the “TIF bid”).

Within the survey several questions sought opinions on what is being called “congestion charging”, where vehicles have to pay for travelling on specific roads or routes at given times of the day.

The aim of this paper is to provide a digest of results and provide a simple analysis but also allow readers to visit the responses and draw their own conclusion.

The Results are presented in two sections:

• Public Transport and how we use it, its problems and issues
• A survey on local attitudes to road pricing or congestion charging.

Worsley and Boothstown Community Committee wish to place on record its grateful thanks to Filipina Moore and Melanie Jeffs at the Greater Manchester Centre for Voluntary Organisations for their help in distributing the survey and undertaking the conversion of the completed returns into their specialist computer programme that has enabled this paper to be written.

Thanks are also due to Worsley and Boothstown's Community Committee's Budget Group for its financial assistance with the mailing and reproduction costs.

This on-line version of the report to Worsley and Boothstown Community Community Committee on 23rd January 2008 differs very slightly in how it is presented. The graphical representations of the results are replaced by the numbers themselves, question 14 is presented in its survey format and the appendices are rearranged.

A copy of the paper report will be available shortly. The paper report is being cirulated to interested groups in the Worsley and Boothstown areas. If your local group would like a copy on paper then please contact us through our email address or through other contact methods. 

"REPORT ON PAPER" VERSION (not yet available)

Navigate through the online version of the report by the blue buttons:

INTRODUCTION   PUBLIC TRANSPORT   ROAD PRICING   CONCLUSIONS   APPENDIX

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