Aylesbury’s Transport Hub was officially completed in April 2009 with the opening of the Bourg Walk bridge and the installation of the public art panels along Great Western Street underpass (to the bus station).

So you may ask: What does Aylesbury’s Public Transport Hub do? It delivers greater sustainable travel choices and movement management through the wider urban area of Aylesbury town and improves the transportation connections between the region and Aylesbury Town Centre.

Driven forward through the cooperation of AVDC and Bucks CC and supported by the government’s Community Infrastructure Fund this transport hub delivers a  comprehensive restructuring of central area bus routes, new strategically located bus ‘Super Stops’, new bus lanes and ‘real time’ passenger information systems and an increase in the frequency and journey times for urban buses. The bus station has also been re-furbished and with Europe’s largest example of enamel artwork on the walls of the underpass along Great Western Street the quality of this transport interchange is now brighter and more welcoming.

The combination of the new steel bridge named ‘Bourg Walk’ , the open space pedestrian crossing across Friarage Road and the new rail station boulevard together achieve a ‘high profile impression’ of Aylesbury and integrates the pedestrian and bus access from the train station to the town centre. A quality example of how Aylesbury can integrate the new with the old as part of its regeneration programme for 2021.

Aylesbury’s resident population is set to grow by approximately 50% with a concurrent projection of a 33% increase in jobs as part of the South East Plan’s goal for the expansion of Aylesbury. Thus this transport infrastructure will deliver the following objectives in the planned growth of Aylesbury:

• Sustainability - to reduce car use, pollution levels and traffic congestion
• Healthy Living – to enable short journeys to be made by bicycle, on foot or via a short walk to a bus stop
• Economic Regeneration – to improve traffic management and vehicle movement

The main beneficiaries are local people and pedestrians. Traffic free zones have been created, as in Market Square, outside the new information centre as well as a series of pedestrian friendly road crossings along the ring road. Better Taxi access points, Disabled Parking and lifts to the train station platforms are also underway as is the Urban Traffic Management and Control System. These transport initiatives complement the Cycle Aylesbury programme being delivered by Bucks CC.