Disability IN-CLUSIVE sustainable & active travel -- Exeter

Worth thinking about.

Barnfield Road Gateway - Have your say A public consultation is being held on proposed changes to the layout of Barnfield Road, Exeter. This includes improvements to the active travel provision and

You can also reply directly to the consultation
www.devon.gov.uk/haveyoursay/...

#activetravel #disabledaccess

Barnfield Road Gateway - Have your say A public consultation is being held on proposed changes to the layout of Barnfield Road, Exeter. This includes improvements to the active travel provision and

We're invited to a design review session for DCC’s Barnfield Rd Gateway, Exeter
If you live with a disability & usually travel by active/sustainble options 🚶🚲🧑‍🦽🛴👨‍🦯🩼🦼 can you help inform our response? Would you like attend the design review meeting? If so, please get in touch. We'd 😍 to hear from you

An elderly woman riding a recumbent tricycle uses a cycle crossing in front of a bus. Credit for the image is given to Wheels for Wellbeing

Interested in inclusive street design for Exeter?

Join @ategov.bsky.social 's safety-related critical issues intro.
ie a street layout/condition associated with ⬆️collision risk for people 🧑‍🦽🛴👨‍🦯🚴🚶‍♀️.

Why not sign up & share your experience with us?

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But where do you put a 4-wheeled bike?

4wielfiets are four-wheeled bikes offer extra stability, opening up cycling to a broader range of users. As well as the extra stability they offer, they also fold up, making storage easy!

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Bins left on pavement are an issue too. It doesn't have to be one or the other.
#disabledaccess

So needed here in Exeter.

Google sreet view image of a very narrow pavement and map showing its location on Barnfield Rd, Exeter.

Have your say on Barnfield Rd, Exeter.
If you find the existing pavements too narrow for your mobility scooter or are frustrated by vans parked across pavements & access points, why not speak up for better spaces for people who walk, wheel or cycle?
##disabledaccess

www.devon.gov.uk/haveyoursay/...

Can we have safe cycling & walking paths for this in Exeter?

How wonderful. Hard to imagine!

Any person living with a disability who walks or cycles...

A photo of a zebra style crossing passing over a buff coloured cycle way. The zebra markings are in white. the text says "Design team to explore what the cost is of milling out HFS and replacing with blacktop. If this is not possible, cover white zebra with black paint to create greater contrast"

After the Rifford Rd, Exeter review workshop, DCC gave their feedback. Some ideas await Design Guidance, but here's one e.g.
Could you help feeback on issues like this where you live, work or travel? Please sign up for our emails & get involved next time.
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So important!

If Bristol can do it, why can't we have fully accessible stations in Exeter at St James Park & Polsloe Bridge?
##disabledaccess

I used to be the poster-girl for #InclusiveCycling 😅. These days, many more #DisabledCyclists are visible on our streets 🥳👍🏻😀.
@wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk is looking for models happy to help widen representation of #Cycling by #Disabled people. We only use fully consented pics. Pls get in touch 👇👇👇👇

We need some new photos to show people what Wheels for Wellbeing is all about!

Are you happy to be photographed at a session next week?

Let us know by commenting below, sending an email or giving us a call.

Could you join our panel of volunteers sharing their experience of active travel & public transport from the perspective of someone living with a disability in/around #Exeter?

We'd love you to join us.

Or perhaps you could forward this to a friend/colleague?

Reach out here via DM or in-clusive.uk

Could you join our panel of volunteers sharing their experience of active travel & public transport from the perspective of someone living with a disability in/around #Exeter?

We'd love you to join us.

Or perhaps you could forward this to a friend/colleague?

Reach out here via DM or in-clusive.uk

We asked for your experiences in/near the @exeter.ac.uk
They replied to our report:
"Useful to hear these perspectives.
✅St German’s Rd is within scope of our cycling/walking infra review. We’ll pick this up.
✅Streatham Dr, we plan construction of new pavement, Queen's Dr - Reed Hall"

Definitely this!

YouTube video by Forestry England Making the nation’s forests more accessible

It's music to our ears. We're loving this video from Forestry England "inclusive and accessible" forests. Yes please! Can we make that happen on Exeter's streets too?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=D66d...

Background: Lower limb prothesis attached to Brompton bag and saddle. Foreground: A well earned beer…

Even for an old hand there’s a first time for everything - quaxing my old-meets-new prosthesis home from the limb centre.

Screenshot of a tweet from Simon Lightwood MP. Jul 21. "Everyone deserves safe, accessible transport. That’s why we’re extending e-scooter trials to 2028 and expanding them to new towns to learn how best to regulate them. We’re also looking at our mobility aid laws so disabled people can use the devices they need for independence." Accompanied with a photo, the alt text for which was "Hire escooters parked in a line in a designated parking area", image attribution Department for Transport.

Easy to miss, but important. At @wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk we've been working towards this moment for years - the DfT has publicly announced that it is looking at sorting out mobility aid laws. 🎉 Our #MyCycleMyMobilityAid campaign looks like it is paying off.

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Calling Exeter residents living with disability who don’t drive.
Do you walk, wheel, bus, or trike around Exeter?

We're a grassroots group & need your voice!

Please read & share our newsletter
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Reposts welcome
#InclusiveExeter #ActiveTravel #AccessibleTransport

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A supporter got in touch to share this Exeter research paper re road changes (which we'd say, it possibly incorrectly frames as "cycling" interventions).

Why not complete this to ensure your views as an active/sustainable traveller living with disability are heard?

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Parkinson's cycling: How it gave me my independence back Tony Deeney was diagnosed with Parkinson's 23 years ago but cycling has helped him rediscover his independence.

Would be great to see something like this back up and running again in Exeter.

BBC News - 'Parkinson's cycling club has given me back my independence'
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Opinion: Chancellor, the electric car grant is back. Now do e-bikes. The UK Government has announced further subsidies for motoring with a new electric car grant, a further handout for drivers

If the government can afford electric car subsidies, why not ebikes?
This is especially needed for disability adapted ebikes and etrikes.
Lots of useful info here.
www.cyclingelectric.com/in-depth/ele...

New £63 million boost for Britain's electric vehicle revolution Funding will help to build a fairer, cleaner future where every family can benefit from cheaper, greener transport.

Sigh
Once again subsidy to buy electric cars but nothing for those who do not drive but need electic assistance, eg as an ebike or etrike.
www.gov.uk/government/n...

Sheffield set to become UK's biggest city to trial new zebra crossings, hoping to boost active travel and cut road deaths The new crossings are a hundred times cheaper than traditional zebras, but are not currently recommended by the Department for Transport.

This has got to be good news.
Exeter next?
Why not?
"Side road zebras can cost up to 100x LESS than traditional crossings. Cash strapped councils can roll them out at speed".
£300 each cf £30,000 for a traditional crossing."
nowthenmagazine.com/articles/she...

Great to see the Transforming Mobility report out at last - some key points in here. We're sure we'll refer to this again & again in years to come.