Doing the maths

12:29pm Thursday 26th June 2008

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A Mathematical look at the Long Marston "ECO-town" proposal Q1. If a town has 6,000 houses and 3,000 jobs, how many households will require to find work elsewhere? A1. 3,000 Q2. If 50% of all of the households have dual incomes, how many people will be travelling from the town to work? A2. 1,500 + 4,500 = 6,000 Q3. If 90% of those people travel to, through or towards Stratford, how many additional north-bound journeys are likely to be made? A3. 5,400 Q4. Where are they going to work and how are they going to get there? A4. The developers think they'll either work in Stratford because "lots of firms want to move there!" or the West Midlands. They'll get there using existing roads, the new Western by-pass and the new rail/tram/guided bus route up the Greenway with a park and ride and bus link to the station.

Q5. Estimate the proportion of people likely to use their car for the journey, given that the proposed Greenway rail link will be single track? A5. ?!

Q6. If the developers have set aside £100m to provide the total infrastructure, how much is going to be left for anything else, given that St. Ives in Cambridgeshire spent £100m on a guided bus system alone? A6. 3/5 of all!

D Peregrine, Upper Quinton.