Streets for People’s reply to Dame Sarah Storey

Streets for People Levenshulme and Burnage have sent an open letter reply to Dame Sarah Storey’s reply to our original open letter.

In our reply, we welcome the Active Travel Commissioner’s intervention in the Levenshulme and Burnage Active Neighbourhood planning fiasco, and trust that the intervention will now lead to positive moves that leads the project back in the direction of its original intentions – to make our neighbourhood much safer for walking and cycling, with the result of reduced car use.

We also have some important follow-up points and questions, not least an important ask – don’t let Manchester City Council get away with the excuse that inflation now means they have less money to make the previously-promised improvements: stopping rat running through bollards and planters is an incredibly cost-effective way of creating safe active travel corridors if it is deployed correctly. We need more of these, and less expensive, ineffectual and out-of-date ‘traffic calming’ measures, which achieve very little for much financial cost.

You can read the full letter here, and we will publish Dame Sarah Storey’s reply in full when we receive it.