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Exeter Cycling Campaign
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Exeter Cycling Campaign - speaking up for everyday cycling to be safe, convenient & connected in and around Exeter.
www.devonlive.com/news/devon-n... We are really happy to see that engaging positively with Exeter City Council really does make a difference 🧵
800 plus homes planned at former Exeter police station
Blocks could be six storeys high
www.devonlive.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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Frans Halsstraat , Amsterdam in 1982 and today. Remove through motor traffic and car parking, replace with greenery, bike parking, café seating, and kids playing football in the street
December 7, 2025 at 9:24 PM
DON'T MISS OUT!
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December 6, 2025 at 9:34 AM
We love speaking to Councillors of all parties about making safe, cheap & easy travel a choice for everyone in #Exeter.

Campaign reps were delighted to join Cllrs Neil & Tony Stevens for a chat, broadcast online.
🧵

#activetravel #cycling #walking #disabledaccess
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December 5, 2025 at 11:15 AM
When cycling is made safe you are more likely to get MIL than MAMIL.
In the Netherlands, where the Dutch invest in safe cycling, the over-65s cycle around a quarter of their journeys, while the over-80s cycle around 10% of theirs.

Low Traffic Neighbourhoods and cycle lanes don't 'restrict freedom', they expand it.
December 3, 2025 at 4:22 PM
DILEMMA!
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We have a small but dedicated team of people who handle Social Media for the campaign.

There is a constant dilemma about how to handle the anti pile on.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Rage bait named word of the year 2025 by Oxford University Press
The phrase - meaning to get angry scrolling through social media - beats aura farming and biohack to the title.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Such an important part of delivering safe cycling. Anyone in Exeter want to go to this and share the main findings?
We now have over 400 people registered for our 4th "Delivering 20" Webinar focusing on behavioural and cultural factors on 10th Dec.

Speakers include:
Tanya Fosdick - Agilysis
Kate Carpenter - Jacobs
Prof Phil Goodwin - UCL and UWE
Sue Nichols - 20's Plenty

Register at:
Delivering 20 – Making 20mph work | Webinar
Webinar: 12.00 - 13.30
www.transportxtra.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:02 PM
A BIG THANK YOU to supporters who investigated & produced the press release.

IF YOU have a story you think the Campaign should cover & will help our aims, please be in touch.

Our press release re drivers flouting the Wonford Rd bus gate was picked up by Western Morning News & other outlets.
December 1, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Cycle paths and safer streets that enable more people to walk, cycle and wheel are helping to tackle illegally high air pollution in Exeter, a new report shows.
November 27, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Our response to the disappointing news that the long-awaited replacement for the Mallison Bridge on the Quay in Exeter has been cancelled.

The current arrangement (alley between Cricklepit Bridge and Commercial Rd) is unsafe and crowded. Up to the council now to provide a solution.
November 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
New figures show that in the first month of enforcement (October), 5,183 motorists were issued written warnings and 69 were issued penalty notices for repeat offences after ignoring filter signs at the new Wonford Road Bus Gate.
November 13, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Bits of Exeter's Green Circle are my everyday cycle links. I've fedback on parts hard to cycle or wheel with a disability.

Maybe you know other sections well & how it could be improved for those using 🧑‍🦽🚲?
Why not complete the survey & get some improvements?

news.exeter.gov.uk/give-your-fe...
November 11, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Our latest newsletter is out with encouraging news on our Quick Wins. Read it here:
mailchi.mp/29f9fea9564c...

and pppppplllllleeeeeaaase make sure you never miss out on an issue by signing up for our emails:
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November 3, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Who agrees that we're suffering from this in Exeter?
Have you heard of “The Populist Playbook?”

A few years ago, I posted what I still consider one of my most important messages.

It was about “The Populist Playbook” that I’ve watched play out often over my 33+ years of city planning.

Since then, it’s only gotten worse.

Do the steps sound familiar?
November 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Look what our lovely friends in Torbay are organising! Worth a trip over of you can make it.
Excited to announce our next mass ride! Join us for a family friendly, festive frolic around the Christmas Illuminations in Torquay! Meet at Cantina (Abbey Park) register at sstt.eventbrite.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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At today's Road Safety GB National Road Safety Conf #20splenty will be presenting on how "Setting 20mph as an urban/village norm has the power to deliver one of the quickest wins for the UK and in particular England and Northern Ireland".
November 5, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Always good to understand what other UK cities are doing to combat congestion and pollution and build a thriving city.
Can we learn from Oxford*?

*similarities: large travel to work area, university city, population size, near motorway.
differences: medieval centre, complete ring road.
November 4, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Our latest newsletter is out with encouraging news on our Quick Wins. Read it here:
mailchi.mp/29f9fea9564c...

and pppppplllllleeeeeaaase make sure you never miss out on an issue by signing up for our emails:
exetercyclingcampaign.us13.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...
November 3, 2025 at 12:21 PM
"Rues aux écoles" sounds so lovely, doesn't it? And by gum, they look amazing too.
Could you imagine these here in Exeter?
Let's hope so.
The Rue Charles Baudelaire in Paris has undergone a major makeover, giving a safe space to children around their school. It is one of over 300 "rues aux écoles" in Paris, showing the success of their green city project.

📸 @emmanuelspv.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Can we talk about survivorship bias?

What might those whose lives were cut short by #pollution or crashes from 🚙🚘🚛 say if they were here to be heard?
Ready to challenge your own thinking in a #motornormative society? = Recomended reading from @ianwalker.bsky.social
simple.ghost.io/but-who-spea...
But who speaks for the dead?
Break out the ouija boards and activate the ghost of Doris Stokes. We're reaching back beyond the grave to solve today's transport and environmental crises.
simple.ghost.io
November 1, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Study after study, data proves again and again that bike infrastructure saves lives.
Another reminder that a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.

ALL ROAD USERS.

And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.

For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.

Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA
Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.
usa.streetsblog.org
October 16, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Did you repond to the Exminster consult'n?
Thank you
Good news! All 6 proposals got strong support.

Teignbridge HATOC report recommends ALL 6 proposals are progressed:
✅new parallel crossing on E2 🚴route
✅new🦓 crossing in the village

Link to the HATOC reports pack: share.google/k8Xx6t51y5ql...
October 30, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Have you checked our handy high tech flowchart?

2 days to respond to DCC's Barnfield Rd Gateway consultation!

#Exeter #cycling #walking

To respond, complete the online form by Friday 31 Oct: www.devon.gov.uk/.../cons.../...
We've some handy tips to help you here:
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/2xkle...
October 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
It's true to say that to cycle is to be invested in #roadsafety.
That to be invested in road safety is to be concerned about drivers who kill & their sentencing.
We long for change.
I spent the summer engrossed in media reports on sentencing for causing death offences. Yesterday I was given the opportunity to present my findings at the Houses of Parliament.

I hope that my report is helpful to those interested in the law relating to road death:

appgcw.org/resources/in...
Behind the Headlines - Sentencing After Fatal Crashes - All Party Parliamentary Group for Cycling & Walking
appgcw.org
October 28, 2025 at 8:04 PM
It's ironic that brighter car head lights may be making cycling less safe. Rather than being able to see road features & cyclists, drivers are blinded.

👀 🌕🌕

This can render some roads completely unsafe for cycling. Unfair!
#roadsafety #cycling

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Car headlights to be reviewed after drivers complain of being 'blinded' at night
Concern over the glare from brighter headlamps is prompting the government to review vehicle design.
www.bbc.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:05 AM