Campaigners to take fight for better walking and cycling provision in Portsmouth to full council meeting

DETERMINED campaigners are hoping to convince the city council to take action to boost walking and cycling.
By The Newsroom
Published 20th Jul 2020, 14:49 GMT
Updated 20th Jul 2020, 17:35 GMT
Pompey Street Space is asking for a joined up cycle lane network as part of its demands. Pictured is Goldsmith Avenue, Southsea, Portsmouth, Hampshire Picture: Malcolm Wells (191014-8327)Pompey Street Space is asking for a joined up cycle lane network as part of its demands. Pictured is Goldsmith Avenue, Southsea, Portsmouth, Hampshire Picture: Malcolm Wells (191014-8327)
Pompey Street Space is asking for a joined up cycle lane network as part of its demands. Pictured is Goldsmith Avenue, Southsea, Portsmouth, Hampshire Picture: Malcolm Wells (191014-8327)

The Pompey Street Space group will take its petition signed by more than 3,000 people and an open letter from 100 medical professionals to a full Portsmouth City Council meeting tomorrow

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As part of the demands, which are ultimately aimed at improving air quality, the organisation is asking for narrow pavements in busy streets to be widened to allow for social distancing, a network of roads throughout the city that are cycle and pedestrian priority and commuter cycle routes.

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Dr Andy Whittamore, the clinical lead for Asthma UK-BLF and one of the Portsmouth GPs to sign the letter, said: ‘Every day in my surgery in Portsmouth I see children and adults presenting to us for the first time with coughing, wheezing and breathlessness.

‘I regularly hear that my young patients are driven to school because the roads are not safe and the air is not clean enough. That is a shameful paradox for our patients, your residents to be in.’

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The full council meeting will be held virtually at 2pm.

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