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TRANSPORT FUTURES EAST SUSSEX: UPDATE – JULY/AUGUST ’23

HOUSE OF COMMONS TRANSPORT COMMITTEE CRITIQUE OF ROAD INVESTMENT STRATEGY/RESPONSES AND REFLECTIONS ON THE REPORT/LORD DEBEN SAYS ‘NO NEW ROADS/TFSE CONFERENCE ON ‘REFRESHING THE STRATEGY FOR THE SOUTH EAST/A259 STUIDY AND PROPOSED MEASURES/BSIP DELIVERS NEW BUS SERVICES ACROSS THE COUNTY/BSIP … Continue reading

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DECEMBER ’22/JANUARY ’23 UPDATE

TRANSPORT FOR THE SOUTH EAST – INVESTMENT PLANS/SCATE – SOUTH COAST ALLIANCE FOR TRANSPORT AND ENVIRONMENT/BUSES – ISSUES AND PERFORMANCE/EASTBOURNE TOWN CENTRE PLANS AND SAFER ROUNDABOUT DESIGNS/LOW TRAFFIC NEIGHBOURHOODS, CARGO BIKES AND MAIL BY RAIL/BUS SERVICE IMPROVEMENT PLAN AND LTP4/1954 … Continue reading

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EAST SUSSEX UPDATE AFTER A LONG GAP! UNCERTAINTIES AND OPPORTUNITIES AS WE MOVE ON FROM COP26//BUS BACK BETTER – BUS SERVICE IMPROVEMENT PLAN BSIP/LOSS OF RURAL BUS ROUTE/BUSES AND THE TOURISM ECONOMY/STAGECOACH COODEN EVENT AND CYCLING MP/EASTBOURNE STATION:REAL TIME BUS INFO/LEWES NEWS/ESCC AND EXPANDING A22 ROUNDABOUTS – YET MORE TRAFFIC?/NEW £1BN A27 – WHAT ELSE COULD YOU DO WITH THE MONEY?/TRANSPORT FOR THE SOUTH EAST – SUBMISSION TO GOV. SPENDING REVIEW/SWITCHING PARCELS FROM ROAD TO RAIL/A259 STUDY AND EXCEAT BRIDGE/MAKEOVER FOR POLEGATE HIGH STREET+20MPH ZONE/SAFE-ISH ROUTE TO SCHOOL/CHILDREN EXCLUDED FROM TRANSPORT PLANNING/GIVE ROAD SPACE TO NATURE AND CAR CLUBS

Transport Futures East Sussex (TFES) is the name we agreed upon after our long standing relationship with Campaign for Better Transport ended. What hasn’t changed is our commitment to promoting sustainable, healthy transport, integrated with planning practices that deliver healthy, … Continue reading

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VOTE FOR SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT!/TRANSPORT FOR NEW HOMES/SURGE IN SUV SALES/ROUNDABOUTS/TRAFFIC EVAPORATION/FREEDOM TO DRIVE – FREEDOM FROM THE NEGATIVE IMPACTS OF TRAFFIC/RECENT RESEARCH – CO2 EMISSIONS AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY/EASTBOURNE BOROUGH PLAN ‘DIRECTION OF TRAVEL’/349 BUS/TRAVELOG LEWES

INTEGRATED TRANSPORT AND PLANNING NEEDED Too often, estates are being completed without consideration of walking, cycling, bus or rail connections, and where the car is King. The bus service improvements (if there are any at all) often appear not in … Continue reading

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A27 – New bus service and ‘joined up thinking’? Scate Update. Transport for New Homes. Eastbourne/Hastings Planning: aspirations and decisions. Hastings/Bexhill Bus Lanes and Bus Users’ Group. Parking on Bus Stops Stops? Rural Buses – elsewhere! Rail Matters. DEFRA Review on National Parks’ and AONBs’ accessibility.

A27 BUS STUDY A pilot study into the potential for a new bus service along the A27 was launched on 18th January in Lewes Town Hall by Campaign for Better Transport. The well attended event was in the form of … Continue reading

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SOUTH COAST ALLIANCE FOR TRANSPORT AND ENVIRONMENT (SCATE) UPDATE (Save Sussex Pad Appeal) – SUCCESSFUL EASTBOURNE CYCLE LINK – TRANSPORT FOR NEW HOMES – ROAD SPACE, WHAT BETTER TO DO WITH IT – WEALDEN DISTRICT PLAN CONSULTATION – GOVE REVIEW OF ACCESSIBILITY TO NATIONAL PARKS AND AONBs – STAGECOACH/ARRIVA EAST SUSSEX/KENT SUNDAY LINK CONTINUES

THE SCATE STRATEGY – VISIONS OF A BETTER WAY FORWARD Building new roads such as the ‘off-line’ A27 to solve congestion is not – and never has been – the answer. To counter the outdated, expensive and highly damaging (to … Continue reading

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HASTINGS AND BEXHILL BUS LANES – HAILSHAM/POLEGATE/EASTBOURNE PROPOSALS – BUSES IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS – BUS ROUTE 349 – TRIPS WITH NO CAR – A27 STUDIES AND ‘SCATE’ PLAN – NEW ROADS AND THE ECONOMY, DO THEY HELP OR HINDER? – BHLR AND PROGENY; WALKING AND CYCLING, HOLD YOUR HORSES – BRICYCLES’ ENERGY – EASTBOURNE WALKING CYCLING, MIXED MESSAGES – ROTHER TRANSPORT ACTION GROUP, RIP – CLEAN AIR FOR EASTBOURNE CAMPAIGN – RAIL SERVICES, NEW SOUTHERN TIMETABLE FROM MAY (not Theresa!) – SUSTAINABLE HOUSING? PROBABLY NOT – ROAD CASUALTY FIGURES SHOW NO IMPROVEMENT – CBT CHIEF TO STEP DOWN AFTER 30 YEARS! – TRANSPORT SECRETARY WANTS CHEAPER MOTORING:IGNORES BUS AND RAIL PRICE HIKES.

HASTINGS AND BEXHILL BUS LANES Designed and presented in the ESCC Local Transport Plan 2000, the bus lanes were intended to be an important element in the three planned ‘quality bus corridors’. These would run: 1.St Leonards, Silverhill, Hollington, and … Continue reading

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CROSS BORDER BUS SUCCESS – MIXED PROSPECTS FOR SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT – PRIMACY OF THE CAR – AIR QUALITY

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SUNDAY 349 BUS TO BODIAM CASTLE – IT’S BACK! After an absence of three years, the 349 Sunday service run by Stagecoach out of Hastings has returned – and not just for summer! The route connects Hastings with Sedlescombe, Cripps … Continue reading

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A27 – HAILSHAM/EASTBOURNE STC – BHLR AFTERMATH – WALKING – CYCLING – PUBLIC TRANSPORT – AIR – PARKING

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A27 CONSULTATION The consultation on Highways England proposals for improvement of the A27 between Lewes and Polegate closed on the 4th December, 2015. The document can be read here: Consultation brochure. Our response can be read here: a27-cons-11-16. Please also see the … Continue reading

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BEXHILL-HASTINGS: DELAYED BUS LANES; EAST SUSSEX TRANSPORT OVERVIEW

A259 BUS LANES – DELAYED CONSTRUCTION Provision of bus lanes on the A259 was one of the conditions on which Link Road funding was granted in 2012. They were first promised in 2004 to ‘complement’ the road, along with ‘new services … Continue reading

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