BSIP: Long-term improvements

Summary:

• Connecting Portsmouth with other areas (more routes) would increase bus usage ‘to a great extent’ for 54% of respondents, and similarly, ‘better integration with other buses (i.e. seamless transfers)’ would do so for 53% of respondents
• The next four options have similar levels of impact in increasing bus usage ‘to a great extent’, just not amongst a majority; co-ordinating changes to timetables (i.e. between bus providers) (50%), giving buses priority on the road wherever necessary (and where there is room) (48%), decreasing car usage in order to reduce congestion to allow for an increase in bus services (47%) and better integration with trains (i.e. bus-train interchanges) (46%)
• Better linking to walking and cycle routes has the least appeal – it will encourage just over a third of respondents to increase their use of bus services ‘to a great extent’

Base: Connecting Portsmouth with other areas (920) | Better integration with other buses (915) | Co-ordinating changes to timetables (912) | Giving buses priority on the road wherever necessary (928) | Reducing congestion to allow for an increase in bus services (907) | Better integration with trains (908) | Better linking to walking and cycle routes (984)

This chart shows that connecting Portsmouth with other areas (more routes) would increase bus usage ‘to a great extent’ for 54% of respondents, and similarly, ‘better integration with other buses (i.e. seamless transfers)’ would do so for 53% of respondents.
The chart also shows that the next four options have similar levels of impact in increasing bus usage ‘to a great extent’, just not amongst a majority; co-ordinating changes to timetables (i.e. between bus providers) (50%), giving buses priority on the road wherever necessary (and where there is room) (48%), decreasing car usage in order to reduce congestion to allow for an increase in bus services (47%) and better integration with trains (i.e. bus-train interchanges) (46%)
Better linking to walking and cycle routes has the least appeal – it will encourage just over a third of respondents to increase their use of bus services ‘to a great extent‘.