Green-led council highly commended in national transport awards

Brighton & Hove City Council has been highly commended for two of its major transport schemes in this year’s National Transport Awards.

The commendations were made in the ‘Improvements to Bus Services’ category for the Lewes Road Sustainable Transport Corridor and the ‘Road Safety, Traffic Management & Enforcement’ category for the Seven Dials road safety scheme.

This follows the council winning the top European award for clean transport by being named City of the Year by Civitas last month.

The city’s sustainable travel projects have helped the city to be recognised nationally as the UK’s least car dependent city outside London by the Campaign for Better Transport. Almost 40 per cent of residents do not own a car.

The Seven Dials scheme made the chaotic junction safer and easier to navigate for all road users, upgraded the pedestrian environment and made the roundabout a safer place to cycle.

As well as the Lewes Road scheme, improvements to bus services such as smartcard ticketing and a growing network of bus lanes helped earn the council a place in the bus category.

Bus journeys in the city have doubled in the last 20 years to 46 million annually. Around 92 per cent of passengers say they are either very or fairly satisfied with the service.

Lead councillor for transport Ian Davey said: “It’s great to have this recognition nationally that we are delivering projects which transport experts far and wide believe are common sense. Our aim is to get the city moving by offering a broad choice of transport modes – so residents don’t have to rely so heavily on cars.”

For more information contact Brighton and Hove Green Party office on 01273 766 670.

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