Enter our virtual Bankside: innovative travel tools to test online
Better Bankside’s Travel Planning Group will soon launch two new online resources designed to assist businesses.
The first is an interactive map showing all the travel options available in the area and just outside it. It includes:
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main roads, tube and rail stations, main cycle and bus routes
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the ability to pan and zoom throughout area
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transport options selected from a drop down list* or by clicking on icons
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clickable tube and train stations, river piers, bus stops, showing routes and destinations, accessibility, and with links to the Transport for London timetables, journey planner and real time information pages
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cycle parking
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pedestrianised areas, footpaths and crossings
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off-street and on-street parking (for cars and motorcycles) with information on charges, contact details and provision for the disabled
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Taxi ranks and minicab companies
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Locations for post offices, chemists, tourist attractions, hotels, shops that sell travelcards, oystercards etc, cash points/banks, open/green spaces
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comments/feedback facility
You can view the tool in its draft form at http://www.betterbankside.co.uk/map.
The tool has been funded for Better Bankside by LB Southwark through the EU-funded Optimum 2 programme. Better Bankside will pay the annual maintenance cost.
The second resource is an interactive tool to help businesses and residents plan for the regeneration of the public realm in their area. It recreates a street or other open space in a virtual on-screen form. It then allows users to remake the environment by moving pavements, street furniture, trees, cycle paths and many other features.
The Better Bankside tool uses Borough High Street as its ‘canvas’, and is accompanied by a film of a death-defying cycle ride down the street from London Bridge, designed to show the somewhat unpleasant reality of the street.
With Transport for London likely to announce its plans for the remaking of Borough High Street in September, the tool could play a useful part in the accompanying consultation.
You can see the tool at http://www.sdgvisuals.com/sites/borough/.
Travel Planning Tool
http://www.betterbankside.co.uk/map/map.php
Virtual Street Tool
http://www.sdgvisuals.com/sites/borough/
