We need a cleaner, greener Eastbourne

I am responding to the letter ‘Pedestrians Need Safe Spaces’ in last week’s Herald click here to read.

Bespoke, Eastbourne’s cycle group, agree and demand a path for cyclists along the seafront. Removing parking on the road from pier to the Redoubt Fortress would accommodate a two-way cycle path, placing planters to beautify the space and protect from traffic.

There is plenty of parking at Redoubt, Fishermans Green and Trinity Trees car parks.

This will reduce particulate pollution penetrating hotels and the lungs of the hotel residents by increasing cycling and walking. One more bike is one less car.

Noise pollution will be reduced, and the rediscovered birdsong of lockdown can prevail, plus the opportunity for green tourism can be harnessed by the hotels with walking and cycling holiday packages.

Our beautiful seafront is an economical asset for cleaner, greener tourism, and a safe space for walkers and cyclists. Peace is a condition to promote, not squash with the return of a traffic congested seafront.

Bespoke are in tandem with disabled people (recliner bikes and electric bikes are a gift of freedom and exercise for our disabled cyclists). The complete pedestrianisation of Terminus road with a designated cycle path all the way down where the road once was, has been our call for the last four years.

A boulevard almost a mile long, with plenty of room for all and a tourist link from station to shops, hotels and seafront for the cycling and walking visitors off the trains and we locals.

Who needs more than one car per household? Expensive things!

During these difficult times we glimpse what truly matters, the gift of health and that pure clean air we breathed these last months, the sound of birdsong on the breeze and kindness, friendship, unity and hope for a better, greener, cleaner future.