🚲Call to Action : Two minutes to save Dryden Road🚲

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Call to action:

Two minutes to Save Dryden Road

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Dryden Road Traffic Regulation Order has been published

It will make our streets less safe and more congested

Your objection needs to be completed by 3rd December

The Council must consider every individual objection.

The Campaign will be making a strong case supported by our crowdfunded legal advice.

Your personal experience will make it stronger.

Lodge an objection https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/jzTGnM1n31 to explain in your own words why reopening Dryden Road to motor traffic concerns you and how it could affect you, your family or others.

Ensure you tell the Council that you are objecting.

See here for details of the scheme https://bit.ly/4iAitk2

You don’t need to write much or be an expert. A short, well-founded personal objection can make a real difference.

The Council is not legally forced to agree with every objection, but the law requires them to consider material considerations such as safety hazards, traffic displacement, equality impacts.

The strongest objections are those that give clear, specific reasons why the council’s proposal is wrong.

For example, explaining how reopening Dryden Road would compromise your safety with only paint between you and vehicles or make it harder to cross safely to get to work, increase your journey time if young, old or disabled, or expose you to more pollution.

A reminder

The TRO (Traffic Regulation Order) will remove the current bollards and bring back two-way motor traffic.

The council plan to put in some road changes but these are inadequate.

These include 20mph, some traffic calming and painted cycle lanes that motor vehicles will enter as they pass other vehicles.

One zebra crossing is provided but in the wrong place to be most useful for pedestrians.

Dryden Road is part of the E9 strategic cycle route, linking Pynes Hill, Ludwell Valley Park, hospitals and city centre.

At present cycling on it is comfortable for almost everyone, after the changes the Council’s modelling expects so much traffic to appear that it will exclude many people on cycles.

The consultation closes on 3rd December so lodge your objection today at https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/jzTGnM1n31

It only takes a few minutes.

If you have multiple reasons, it is best to do each one as a separate submission so each objection is properly and fully considered.

This is what some of our supporters have told us

Maybe you feel the same?

‘Active Travel England’s guidance says cycling here will not be safe, or feel safe, with this much traffic. How can I let my child cycle to school or to see their friends? I will ask them to return to cycling on the pavement’

‘With this much traffic I will be constantly afraid of close passes when cycling. It will be even worse when I am slowing down and going uphill.’

‘The Barrack Road junction will be harder for me to reach and cross safely. If I cannot get to the advanced stop area to use the early green light for people on bikes, I worry that drivers will turn across and into me.’

‘Painted lanes will not keep me or my children safe. They tempt drivers to pass people who are cycling too closely.’

‘My needs as a mobility scooter user crossing Dryden Road at Well Oak Park have not been considered.’

‘The mini roundabout at Bovemoors Lane will become more dangerous again for people like me walking or cycling, with more motor traffic approaching from Dryden Road.’

‘This fails to deliver things Exeter has been promised, such as cleaner air and a joined-up, safe cycling network. I need safe cycling and walking routes from home to

my destination if I am going to leave my car at home.’

‘All the important aims could have been achieved by making the filters a bus gate, which would have kept my family and me safe when walking and cycling.’

‘As a woman, I will have fewer travel choices that feel safe because of this change to the road layout.’

‘As a parent of teenagers, I know this change to the road layout will restrict their travel choices and their freedom.’

‘I have a disability that means I cannot drive. Dryden Road means I can travel independently by mobility scooter from Wonford to a friend’s house near Barrack Road . Taking that away will affect my quality of life’

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What does Exeter Cycling Campaign stand for?
A comprehensive, convenient and connected network of cycle paths for people of all ages and abilities to choose cycling as the safe, natural choice for everyday journeys.

We advocate not only for people who cycle but for people who walk, wheel and scoot.

Please don’t leave it to others ……..
We’ve seen some successes, and some reverses, over the last few years but every metre of safe cycling requires hard work and campaigning so that Officers and Councillors feel confident enough to implement schemes.

We’d love to chat with you if you think you can spare some time to help.

Thank you.

info@exetercyclingcampaign.org.uk

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