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00:00 routes are pretty common actually in many other areas around the country.
00:03 And the aim of them is threefold really.
00:06 They're aimed to lower congestion, so making journey times more reliable,
00:09 reduce delays on essential services such as bus routes,
00:13 and more importantly, preventing illegal and unsafe parking,
00:16 which prevents traffic from flowing actively through our town centres.
00:21 And we're consulting on five strategic locations at the moment,
00:25 all very busy roads in the centre of our towns.
00:30 And we hope and we're open to consultation at the moment,
00:33 which ends on Sunday this week, where we're getting people's views
00:37 on whether they would like these proposals
00:39 or whether they don't want these proposals.
00:42 W and A line restrictions at the moment allow for people to drop off and pick up.
00:45 They give a 20 minute period to do that.
00:49 Red Route would not allow that at all.
00:51 So it restricts, it's a further restriction on parking.
00:55 It also would designate periods of time for people such as business
00:59 owners who wish to bring in goods and services.
01:02 We would designate a time where they would do that.
01:04 So, for instance, if a lorry was coming to unload,
01:06 they would have to do that at a particular time of day.
01:09 So they're not preventing commuter traffic from from getting blocked up.
01:13 So it just gives us an extra tool really to ensure that, as I say,
01:17 it lowers congestion at key moments of the day, reduces delays to buses
01:22 and other vehicles that need to pass.
01:24 And it's just a way of active transport improvement
01:27 that works in many other places across the country.