ePetition - Permanent Well-Planned and High-Quality Cycle Lanes for the Old Shoreham Road
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Permanent Well-Planned and High-Quality Cycle Lanes for the Old Shoreham Road
We the undersigned petition Brighton & Hove Council to install well-planned and high-quality permanent cycle lanes on the Old Shoreham Road so that we and thousands of other residents have the option of getting around by bike.
We’re a group of parents and children who used the Old Shoreham Road to get to school, work and leisure activities.
We want our children to be able to cycle to school as it’s good for their physical and mental health, it gives them independence, saves time and money and keeps down emissions. We’d also like delivery riders and commuters to get around without risking their lives.
This can only happen if the roads are safe. New government policy says ‘cyclists must be physically separated from high volume motor traffic,’ which means protected lanes on roads like the Old Shoreham Road. We want a fast and direct route, as the policy describes.
Temporary cycle lanes allowed us and our children to travel safely
for a while, but now they’ve been removed, we have to drive,
take the bus or brave terrifying traffic by bike. Our children have
less freedom and we have fewer transport options.
Forty percent of households in the city don’t have a car, and that number is even lower for young people. We all need safe, cheap, efficient transport.
We’d like our local politicians to take everyone’s
well-being seriously, no matter how they get around. We need them
to make cycling possible by making it safe.
This ePetition ran from 11/10/2021 to 06/04/2022 and has now finished.
2188 people signed this ePetition.