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Exeter Transport Strategy

Two people cycling down Bedford Street in Exeter City Centre

The Campaign contributed positively to the Exeter Transport Strategy which lays out priorities and approach for the next decade on our roads

For more info, full our full response here

Two people cycling down Bedford Street in Exeter City Centre

Our Response

  1. Name the strategy a ‘Mobility Strategy’ to signal the change in emphasis away from a car-centric/car-parking bias and towards a people-focused approach.
  2. Ensure technological / data driven attempts to smooth traffic are not done at the expense of people walking and cycling.
  3. Clarify the target for foot/bike modal share and demonstrate how stretching this goal is compared to 2019 levels.
  4. State how the Strategy’s goals / success will be measured.
  5. Commit to a timetable for building an LCWIP and bring Exeter Cycling Campaign into this process.
  6. Explain and justify why and how road space will need to be reprioritised to active travel modes.
  7. Explicitly embrace the DfT Local Transport Note design guidance (to be issued Spring 2019)as the underpinning design guidance for DCC to use for public highway design and explain what ‘high quality cycle paths’ means.
    Give examples of ‘high-quality design standards’ for cycling infrastructure.
  8. Commit to specific measures to deliver a 45% reduction in transport-induced carbon pollution by 2030 to meet IPCC goals.
  9. List the corridors where enhancements to improve pedestrian / cycle safety will be made and give examples of how these enhancements will be made.
  10. Commit to delivering rat running prevention measures in at least three city residential areas in three years and all residential areas by 2030.
  11. Commit to making 20mph the default speed limit in all new development areas and rolled out across the city by 2030.
  12. P&R sites to have connected, safe cycle paths to them and secure cycle parking.
  13. Embrace as a minimum the DfT’s call for HAs to increase investment in cycling and walking to 15% of total transport infrastructure spend, and grow this.
  14. Adopt an explicit ‘Vision Zero’ approach to road harm reduction.
  15. Identify pilot schools in Exeter and provide funds for infrastructure investment to build safe school streets. Implement a pilot school within two years and offer to all schools by 2030.
  16. Add a timetabled action plan as part of this Strategy.