Read our letter to Leicester City Council in support of 24-hour bus lanes (Sep’24) here.
Climate Action’s Transport Action working group is campaigning for council policies which will prioritise people over cars. For example changes which will make taking public transport, walking and cycling easier for people, and make driving less attractive.
At the moment, our campaigning goals are:
- Pushing Leicester City and Leicestershire County Councils to set annual targets to reduce car use and implement policies designed to discourage car use;
- To improve bus services. Encouraging Leicester City and Leicestershire County to apply for a Bus Franchise under the Bus Services Act. If this proves impossible, we will support an enhanced partnership;
- To increase and enforce the number of segregated cycle lanes and connect them up to form a network across the County and City;
- To support the City Council to establish a city wide Workplace Parking Levy;
- To introduce a 20mph speed limit across the city;
- Pushing for the County and City to develop a detailed policy for freight. This should include targets for encouraging logistics companies to start moving from road to train, reducing the number of HGVs in the city, and shifting freight to zero carbon options to reduce the impact on cyclists and pedestrians. Our suggestions are here: Freight plan suggestions.
- We also read and respond to council transport consultations.
Examples of work we have done:
- 2021-2022: Supported Leicester introducing a Workplace parking levy – see more about our work on this here.
- Sep 2021: Responded to the consultation for, and met with Leicester City Council about, their new transport plan. We also put together a briefing to support individuals to respond.
- You can see our response to the Leicester and Leicestershire Strategic Transport Priorities consultation here.
- Dec 2020 Responded to the Local Plan consultation: transport action group local plan response final.
