Viva Lewes Issue 117 June 2016

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SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT Chris Smith Lewes Travel Log man Lewes Travel Log is a website and newsletter which I started to encourage people living in or near Lewes to use sustainable travel – ie walking, cycling and getting the bus or train – instead of driving or flying. I let readers know about how to get the cheapest tickets on offer, about useful cycle and walking routes, and about campaigns against bodies and people that are trying to make sustainable travel more difficult or expensive. There were two things that sparked it off. I was a Green and I was banned from asking questions in the Christmas quiz about buses – ie what number bus takes you from Lewes to Haywards Heath – because no-one knew the answers. And I had friends in St Swithun’s Terrace who, when I suggested they might take a bus from the High Street instead of using their car, asked me how they would go about doing that. I thought it was time for action. This was about 10-12 years ago. I’m not anti-car. My partner and I own one; I realise that the way things are set up it’s difficult to travel sustainably all of the time. Try getting to Hurstpierpoint, for example (where my mother was in a nursing home). But I realise that East Sussex has the highest rate of car ownership per capita in the country, and we need to try to do something about that because traffic is bad enough as it is, and the time will come when the whole area is completely choked up. I make it my mission to let people know the cheapest public transport tickets they can buy. For example, as of last month Lewes is no longer in the Brighton City zone, as far as the bus companies are concerned, which means a use-it-all-day City Saver, bought on the bus, will now set you back £6.50 instead of £4.70. Unless you buy a scratch-off ticket in Tourist Information or Martins Newsagent, that is, in which case it will cost you £4.90. I’m a keen walker. On my website I have outlined over 40 walks, all of which start and end in Lewes or somewhere connected to Lewes by public transport. Some of them are themed: there’s an Eric Ravilious one, for example, and another one about paths in the Firle Estate which have been obscured or even ploughed over. Another battle is the Gatwick extension plan. I’m against it. I believe if it goes ahead it will be inevitable that the A23 is turned into a motorway all the way from Beddingham to Polegate. Our MP Maria Caulfield refuses to come down on one side or the other, I suspect because she will annoy potential voters whichever way she goes. The newsletter allows me to release my inner nerd, but it has attracted over 300 subscribers, and a lot of them forward it on as well. You can subscribe to it for free via travelloglewes.co.uk. As told to AL 85
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