Meeting held on 16 April 2008 at Delia Davis’ home, Kemp Town
Present Graham Towers
Neil Harding
Michael Petek
Doly Garcia
Celia Davis
Apology Stephen Young
1.0 Models
Curitiba – the meeting watched a film on this city in Brazil. There was a degree of pedestrianisation. The city had a complex bus service comprising colour coding, providing a range of speed, distance and accessibility. and running on dedicated road lanes with roadside stations. These are shared with emergency services. This was considered interesting. However there was also large scale provision for cars and other vehicles in multi-lane highways – something not to be emulated.
Freiburg – a press article on the German city (Observer 23/3/08) was discussed. The city was somewhat smaller than Brighton and was largely develop since WW2. Much of its ‘green’ credibility derived from the energy efficient housing developments. In transport terms there was a large scale network of cycle ways. There was also a car-free neighbourhood where cars were not allowed and could only be parked on the periphery at high cost
2.0 Action from previous meeting
North Street - Celia had completed and returned the questionnaire from the exhibition on behalf of the group. It appeared a further exhibition would be help of refined proposals.
Car Free Day – Celia was pursuing this but it was felt the Council was unlikely to be sympathetic. It was felt best to seek the co-operation of other groups such as bricycle.
Cycle maps = still to be obtained.
3.0 Correspondence
There had been an enquiry fir a student for information. Chris Callard had also asked co-ordinators for reports. Agreed Graham to prepare a progress report which could be updated on a rolling basis
4.0 Next meeting
Wednesday 14 May venue to be arranged
Minutes from Transport Group meeting - 16th April
