Posts relating to traffic issues
Air quality Community safety Traffic
16th December 2024 / 17th December 2024 by exetergreenparty
Green Party councillors will present a motion this Tuesday calling on Devon County Council to work with schools and communities to increase the number of School Streets in Exeter. School Streets are designed to improve child safety by creating car-free areas outside schools for short periods at the start and end of the school day. […]
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Air quality Green Spaces Local economy Traffic
6th December 2024 / 11th December 2024 by exetergreenparty
Exeter Green Party has secured a commitment to engage with public on the future of the old bus station site in the city centre. A survey the Green Party launched [1] asking local residents for ideas on how the site should be used found no appetite for the Labour-led Council’s plan for a temporary car […]
Climate action Green Spaces Housing Development Local economy Net Zero Traffic
19th November 2024 / 25th November 2024 by exetergreenparty
Progressive Group councillors on Exeter City Council have accused the ruling Labour group of keeping councillors in the dark as the Local Plan [1] reaches a crucial stage. The final draft of the Plan was due to be scrutinised by a cross party committee last Thursday. But at the last minute the scrutiny committee only […]
Air quality Traffic
2nd February 2024 / 9th April 2024 by andrewbell
A Freedom of Information (FOI) request by Exeter Green Party has revealed that Exeter City Council acknowledge there are serious issues to address in relation to crossings around the Paris St roundabout, something they had previously denied. Green Councillors Andy Ketchin and Carol Bennett raised the issue of dangerous crossings around the Paris St roundabout […]
18th January 2024 / 9th April 2024 by andrewbell
The Green Party have called on councillors to resist the suspension of the Active Streets trial in Heavitree and Whipton. The scheme was due to run for 18 months. However, a report from the Director of Climate Change, Environment and Transport at Devon County Council to the HATOC committee recommends that, if on or after […]
Air quality Climate action Traffic
3rd November 2023 / 9th April 2024 by andrewbell
The following letter on the government’s U-turn on plans to close all railway station ticket offices in Exeter and Devon is from Councillor Catherine Rees. The screeching halt to the closure of railway ticket offices is a huge victory for people power. Across the country, including in Exeter, people have protested, signed petitions and responded […]
17th October 2023 / 9th April 2024 by andrewbell
Labour councillors have refused to back a Green Party motion brought to Full Council calling for an anti-idling campaign for Exeter [1]. Greens say idling vehicles increase exhaust fumes in the air and that the resulting pollution is linked to a range of health problems. They urged Exeter City Council to adopt a range of […]
Net Zero Traffic
26th August 2023 / 9th April 2024 by andrewbell
With exactly a week left to respond to the consultation on proposed railway station ticket office closures [1], Green Party councillors are urging passengers to press Great Western Railway (GWR) to keep ticket offices open at Exeter Central and Exeter St David’s stations. In a letter to Transport Focus [2], which is coordinating the consultation, […]
Air quality Climate action Cost of Living Crisis Traffic
7th August 2023 / 19th March 2024 by andrewbell
As the government orders a review into Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTN) schemes, Exeter Green Party councillors are urging Devon County Council to ‘hold its nerve’ and continue to deliver trials of LTNs ‘with confidence’. Heavitree councillor Catherine Rees said: “In their desperation for votes, the Conservative government is fueling culture wars by ordering a review […]
Air quality Climate action Cost of Living Crisis Net Zero Traffic
26th July 2023 / 19th March 2024 by andrewbell
Green Party co-leader of the opposition in Exeter, Diana Moore, has criticised Exeter City Council for failing to meet with local enterprise Co-Cars to discuss what support they might need to rework their business model and continue operation in the city. Co-Cars, including Co-Bikes, ceased trading last week citing financial difficulties brought on by the […]
Air quality All Climate action Traffic
29th March 2023 / 19th March 2024 by andrewbell
Exeter Green Party councillors have said they are hopeful ‘buses are moving in the right direction’ in the city following a meeting with Stagecoach boss, Peter Knight. The councillors say they particularly welcome the company’s interest in pursuing ideas for low cost travel for children and young people and restructuring fares to make them fairer […]
Air quality All Traffic
9th March 2022 / 19th March 2024 by exetergreenparty
Green councillors are warning that despite the Government’s announcement last week that the Bus Recovery Grant (BRG) will continue until October, bus services in the city remain in crisis due to ongoing local driver shortages and funding uncertainty. Exeter has experienced drastic cuts to services in the last few months, with routes that ran every […]
All Traffic
7th October 2021 / 19th March 2024 by exetergreenparty
As Devon County Council continues a series of consultations on making streets safer from the impacts of traffic, Exeter Greens have called for a city-wide strategic approach, similar to one that is proposed in Birmingham.
3rd October 2020 / 19th March 2024 by margaretpickering
26th August 2020 / 19th March 2024 by exetergreenparty
Following weeks of ‘dither and delay’ Greens say their pressure on the Labour-run City Council to release air pollution figures has paid off. Green councillor, Diana Moore, requested air pollution figures for the lockdown period at a Council scrutiny meeting in July. She was told at the time that raw data could not be released […]
Air quality All Net Zero Traffic
4th June 2020 / 19th March 2024 by exetergreenparty
Exeter’s Green Party councillor, Diana Moore, has responded to plans by Devon County Council for creating safer walking and cycling routes as lockdown measures are eased. She says these “fall considerably short of the expectations that many in Exeter have in order to make roads slower and safer.” Last month the government called on Local […]
