ePetition - Pedestrianise St James Street
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Pedestrianise St James Street
Over the years residents, businesses and visitors have raised
concerns that St James Street has become a dirty, unsafe and
unwelcoming area of Brighton with a bad reputation.
St James Street traders and MPs in the past have called on the
Council to look at an option to pedestrianise the street, this has
not been achieved. Making the street traffic-free would create more
of a 'cafe-culture', and enhance the appearance of the street.
A traffic-free street would also facilitate the creation of permanent art installations associated with the community like the recently suggested Rainbow Crossing' or a Rainbow Road like the one created in Iceland.
Closure of the street would also facilitate events like the annual Pride Street Party.
Brighton City Council please consider implementing a proper consultation to see if this is a possibility.
This ePetition ran from 30/08/2019 to 23/10/2019 and has now finished.
416 people signed this ePetition.
Council response
Response provided by the Chair of the Environment, Transport & Sustainability Committee on 26 November 2019:
"I have been made aware of the previous suggestions and
representations about St James’s Street that have been made
by members of the local community in the past, and the results of
the consideration of them by officers and councillors. I believe
that the most recent of those were in 2013 and 2014.
It is worth remembering that St James Street is a very important
bus route serving and supporting tens of thousands of residents
across key parts of the City including the Hospital and also relied
upon by the wider community for easy public transport access to the
supermarket and local businesses, so pedestrianisation would not
come without its challenges.
However, I do think that it would helpful for the committee to
consider this issue in a future report to this committee to give us
a greater understanding of the challenges both in terms of
transport logistics and finance and what potential option might
work best for everybody".