Issues and Options

See answer to Question 5 – point 1, also: • Making sustainable modes of transport safe and easily accessible. e.g. Dutch style segregated cycle routes, buses able to access all new housing developments so that bus stops are easily accessible to all residents • Substantially increasing the frequency of bus services to rural communities • Actively reducing the priority given to unsustainable forms of transport. • Reversing past unsustainable transport policies and actions e.g. The serious issue of not being able to access Bedford town centre safely by bicycle from the Wixams new town should be ended by demanding that Highways England build a cycle bridge across the A421 as they committed to do years ago. BBC to ensure that the new Bromham Road Bridge across the railway is supplemented with an additional cycle bridge to enable safe cycle access to Bedford station as BBC said it would 2 years ago - to date, no planning application has been forthcoming.

• Current policies do nothing to protect and enhance the River Great Ouse and valley area – the “jewel in Bedford Borough’s crown” • Health & Wellbeing - The importance of access to quality Open Green Space and Countryside in terms of Health & Wellbeing has not been considered

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