4. Route Options – Retail Park to High Street

We’ve been busy developing route options, designed to meet a significant number of routine journeys in the main directions (West – East and also South North) to trip generators and along obvious desire lines, while avoiding heavily trafficked main roads.

Here’s the final proposal from the retail park to the town centre, using the verge of Kellie Rd to achieve a higher degree of segregation from traffic, while using existing paths, and traffic calmed areas.

Summary appraisal

	4a. Spott Rd	4b. Eastern paths route	4c. New path beside Kellie Rd	4d. Ashfield Park route with new and existing paths
From	Retail park entrances	Retail park entrances	Retail park entrances	Retail park entrances
Via	Spott Road (on road for cycles), and thence via existing path towards cemetry, Queens Rd, Abbey Road	East on existing good shared use path via rail underbridge to Dempster Place, Comrie Avenue, Manderson Drive, and existing good shared use path to Spott Rd crossing, and thence via existing path towards cemetry, Queens Rd, Abbey Road	via improved shared use pavement to Kellie Rd roundabout, then widened shared use path in southern verge of Kellie Rd to sports fields, and either north to Countess Crescent crossing, OR northeast to station underpass, Countess Rd, Abbey Rd	via improved shared use pavement to Kellie Rd roundabout, then widened shared use path in southern verge of Kellie Rd to new link path to Brunt Court, existing path to Ashfield Park, existing path to Station underpass, Countess Rd, Abbey Rd.  This route also provide links on existing paths to Spott Rd Industrial Estates.
To	High Street	High Street	Bleachingfield Ctr/ High St	High Street
Option score	3	8	18	17

We look at the following criteria to evaluate the options. We score each criterion on a scale -3 to +3. The highest theoretical score possible is 27. The lowest -27.