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Foreword – Professor Mark Barry, Cardiff University
Metro has been a collective effort
Part 1 Context, what is a Metro and why I got involved…
- Why did I get involved in the Metro?
1.1 First, a little history
1.2 The Light Rail proposals of the 1990s
1.3 Welsh Government, SRA Franchise & Cardiff Rapid Transit
1.4 Network Rail obfuscation
1.5 The lack of PTA/PTE was beginning to show
1.6 Others could see some of what was needed
1.7 The biggest devolution mistake?
1.8 Getting my “Metro Head” on
Chapter 1 References - What is a Metro?
2.1 Metro modes and features
2.2 A brief Metro history and example systems
2.3 Metro definitions
2.4 Is Newcastle the best example of a UK Metro?
Chapter 2 References - Why Metro…and developing a Metro Vision?
3.1 Why Metro?
i) Connecting more people to more places using public transport
ii) TOD and equitable & sustainable economic development
iii) Recognise and responding to the Climate Emergency
3.2 The Cardiff Capital Region Metro Vision
Chapter 3 References
Part 2 2010-2024 My Metro story
- Developing a Cardiff Capital Region Metro Vision (2010-2013)
4.1 Where I had come from
4.2 The seed of an idea and the Institute of Welsh Affairs (IWA)
4.3 The Cardiff Business Partnership
4.4 A Metro for Wales’s Capital City Region and launch event
4.5 What about Welsh Government and the Region?
4.6 What were UK Government doing?
4.7 Growing frustrations through into 2012
4.8 The Metro Consortium
4.9 The Metro Impact Study (2013)
4.10 Addressing challenges, scepticism and concerns
Chapter 4 References - Developing the Metro with Welsh Government 2014-2016
5.1 Landing in Welsh Government and Cathays Park
5.2 Building a team and taking advice
5.3 Working with the emerging Cardiff Capital Region
5.4 Initial Metro development and frustrations
5.5 What are we electrifying and who is paying?
5.6 Can the Civil Service really deliver a Metro?
5.7 Some technical insight re Light Rail and working assumptions
5.8 A developing Metro vision and growing frustrations
5.9 Show me it can’t be done
5.10 What does the First Minister think?
5.11 Building in safeguards
5.12 Progress and launching the Metro in November 2015
Chapter 5 References - Buying and building a Metro 2016-2024
6.1 Metro procurement 2016-2018
6.2 The MTR/BAM Nuttal joint venture team and bid
6.3 The Keolis Amey solution for Core Valley Lines
6.4 Building the Metro 2019-2026
6.5 Gaps & so still work to do…
Chapter 6 References - Cardiff University from 2016
7.1 Context for my ongoing independent work
7.2 Professor of Practice in Connectivity
– What Metro Might Do
– Metro and Me
– Cardiff University GEOPL Applied Research
7.3 An idea for a Swansea Bay Metro in 2017
7.4 The Rail Network in Wales – The Case for Investment 2018-19
7.5 Making a noise about rail investment in Wales
7.6 Cardiff Council, Cardiff Crossrail & Western Gateway
7.7 Helping TfW from 2020 to 2024
Chapter 7 References - Metro maps
8.1 Maps to sell a vision
8.2 Maps to guide passengers
Chapter 8 References - Metro and the media
9.1 Metro and the media
Chapter 9 References
Part 3 Context for the future of Metro
- The Climate Emergency and car dependency
10.1 My relationship with cars and the road
10.2 A brief history of cars
10.3 The policy challenges
10.4 Induced Demand
10.5 The development impact of cars and induced demand
10.6 Externalities – costs (especially health) & benefits
10.7 Road User Charging (or reduction in the “road use discount”)
10.8 Technology, financial services, EVs and SUVs
10.9 Insurance, 15-minute cities, 20mph & Motonormativity
10.10 So, what does all this mean for car use?
Chapter 10 References - Why we need Transit Oriented Development (TOD)
11.1 We are building all the wrong stuff in all the wrong places
11.2 Transit Oriented Development (TOD) & Placemaking?
11.3 Look at places like Malaga, Vancouver, Denver, Freiburg…
11.4 The fifteen-minute city
11.5 What does TOD mean for Metro
11.6 A Metro Development Corporation?
Chapter 11 References - Transport Planning and choices
12.1 My transport planning journey
12.2 Choices and compromises – especially ridership V coverage
12.3 Value of time (and Quantum Physics)
12.4 Public transport grids, networks and segregation
12.5 Service frequency
12.6 Transport modes
12.7 Network legibility & simplicity
12.8 Post Covid, flexible working & transport demand
12.9 Fares and subsidies
Chapter 12 References - The Rail Industry, Wales and HS2
13.1 Context
13.2 Types of rail funding
13.3 The constitutional dysfunction
13.4 HS2, Wales and Barnett
– But first a little of the HS2 back Story
– Current costs and commitments of UK Government for HS2, IRP, etc
– Transport user benefits of HS2
– Economic benefits, BCR and value for money of HS2
– Freed up capacity resulting from HS2
– What do the treasury think about HS2 benefits to Wales?
– The Barnett formula, Wales and Rail
– Some of the misinformed political statement re HS2
13.5 So, what does that mean for Wales?
13.6 The repetitive nature of UK rail reviews
13.7 To conclude
Chapter 13 References
Part 4 The future of Metros in Wales & making it happen
- Some context and data that will shape future projects
14.1 Welsh transport policy and transport objectives
14.2 Data & key facts to consider in Wales
– Population metrics
– Economic metrics
– Commuting statistics
– Station passenger numbers (PAX)
– Route catchment
– Operating costs and government support for services
14.3 Primary transport issues
14.4 Transport Planning at TfW
14.5 The role of Cardiff
14.6 Making better use of existing rail assets
Chapter 14 References - The priority transport schemes in Wales to 2040
15.1 Planning for the future
15.2 Benefits of public transport
15.3 Mark Barry’s transport planning
15.4 My proposals… to 2040
15.5 Cardiff, the Cardiff Capital Region and Crossrail
– Immediate priorities for Cardiff: Crossrail phase 2 to 2028/9
– Crossrail Phase 2 Interventions
– Crossrail Phase 2 Benefits
– Wider Metro rail measures to 2028/30
– Complementary bus and integration measures to 2028
– Full Cardiff Crossrail from 2028 into the 2030s
– Wider CCR and CVL measures into the 2030s
– Longer term CCR measures to 2040:
15.6 Swansea Bay and west Wales
– Priority schemes in Swansea Bay
– Longer term rail Metro in Swansea Bay
15.7 North Wales
15.8 South Wales Main Line (SWML) Corridor
15.9 Rail innovation in northwest Wales
15.10 South Wales to north Wales, Liverpool & Manchester
15.11 Bus services, networks and integration
15.12 Active Travel
15.13 A better post HS2 UK rail network
Chapter 15 References - How do we make that happen?
16.1 Devolution of rail powers & funding
16.2 Transport & land use planning, TOD
16.3 Road Pricing
16.4 The Cardiff Capital Region & Metro
16.5 A Constitutional upgrade for the UK AND Wales
16.6 To conclude
Chapter 16 References
Part 5 What does everyone else think?
17. The views of other key parties
- Roger Lewis – Chair of the Cardiff Capital Region Board 2013-15
- Geoff Ogden – Dir for Transport Planning and Development, TfW
- Peter Fox MS – Ex Leader of Monmouthshire Council
Appendices
Example emails and other briefing notes
Mark Barry email to Sue Essex January 2002
Mark Barry email to Sue Essex Office February 2002
Correspondence with Ian Coucher (CEO NR ) & Jenny Willott (MP)
Mark Barry emails to James Price and Paul Orders October 2009
Mark Barry submission to Wales Transport Consultation 2009
Mark Barry email to Tim James and Stuart Cole 2010
Mark Barry email to David Melding MS February 2010
Various Cardiff Business Partnership correspondence 2010-2013
Mark Barry email to WG Minister Edwina Hart April 2012
Luke Albanese briefing note to WG Metro team December 2013
Mark Barry email to WG Minister Edwina Hart May 2014
Mark Barry email to WG Minister Edwina Hart July 2014
Mark Barry email to WG Minister Edwina Hart September 2014
Mark Barry Briefing to CCR Board May 2015
Mark Bary Briefing for CCR LA Leaders/CEOs June 2022
Mark Barry email to selected MPs/MSs 20 February 2023
Mark Barry Email to Western Gateway Board February 2023
Letter from DfT to Mark Barry March 2023
Mark Barry Email to UK Gov Transport Ministers WG CabSec July 2024
Others TBC
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