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but I’m shocked at simple things like how badly overgrown pavements are as soon as you leave the town centre, how few bike railings there are, and generally why no roads have been pedestrianised in such a beautiful old town with tiny pavements.
I spoke to a councillor about this when I was in Lewes last, the town council is Green but the highways are managed centrally by East Sussex which is Tory dominated. So you have this messed up form of democracy where the town council cant change their own roads, they've tried to widen the pavements etc, but the East Sussex Tories love the through traffic and refuse any requests for change.
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I’m planning to, but suspect it will be a frustrating experience. I’ve only been here a few years and am an outsider with only South London to compare to (very unpopular) - but I’m shocked at simple things like how badly overgrown pavements are as soon as you leave the town centre, how few bike railings there are, and generally why no roads have been pedestrianised in such a beautiful old town with tiny pavements.
There is no way to leave Lewes north without going on a 60mph A road. Pavements on both A275 and A26 are impassable and just randomly stop existing after a short while. I don’t understand it! The A275 is popular with cyclists (no alternative), and the ‘pavement’ is more dangerous than the road.
So if these basic essentials can’t be built I’m sceptical a Lewes-Uckfield cycle route will exist in my lifetime, and it might be better not to look forward to the prospect… So I’d like to attend to listen and understand why these processes are so slow. Are you going?