Councillor Tristan Osborne explains why red routes could be introduced in parts of Medway

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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.