FUTURE PEDESTRIAN FOOTFALL ANALYSIS
Whitechapel High Street junction in the AM peak period. To put this into context, the spot counts surveyed around 5,000 pedestrian movements in the vicinity of the junction at present. This level of increase would have a negative impact on the capacity of footways and crossings in the area, particularly outside the entry and exit points to Aldgate East Station. Numerous footways and formal crossings at this location have been improved as part of the Aldgate gyratory improvements, which has helped to increase pedestrian capacity in the area, as well as the provision of additional entrances to Aldgate East Station on the ‘island’ on which Aldgate Union is located.
Mansell Street and Minories 1.17 Mansell Street is likely to form the primary link from Whitechapel High Street and to the Tower of London/River Thames and will therefore experience the greatest increase in pedestrian movement. Mansell Street has wide pedestrian footways which are in good condition. Dependant on the exact distribution of pedestrians from the site, it is assumed (based on 20% of total trip to/ from the DLR) that a total of 1300 two-way AM peak period trips could be generated by all the development sites listed within this note. The Aldgate Union site is expected to form the primary pedestrian trip generator of all the new developments, with a total of 540 trips anticipated in the AM peak, the majority of which are likely to use Leman Street to access the site via Leman Street or Mansell Street. 1.18 The majority of trips are assumed to arrive at the DLR via The Minories, which would not present a problem in terms of pedestrian crossing capacity at the Minories/Shorter Street/Royal Mint Street junction as this provides a link between Aldgate East and Tower Gateway DLR without the need to cross at this junction. Problems could arise should pedestrians choose to distribute via Royal Mint Street or Mansell Street which would require crossing Mansell Street using the formal crossing at its junction with Shorter Street/ Royal Mint Street, however spot counts at these locations show that these crossings are well within capacity currently.
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