Join Love to Ride Devon’s FREE Urban Cycling Skills webinar
Would you like to hear some tips about how to cycle more safely in traffic? Love to Ride’s upcoming FREE Urban Cycling Skills webinar on Thursday 9 July, 14:00 offers you tried and tested advice to help tame the traffic around you and help you feel safer, more confident and happier about your […]
Completed works on the Barnstaple line – notice from GWR
The Barnstaple line re-opened on Monday 6 April with Network Rail completing work on time. As you might expect methods of working with social distancing, and reduced staff numbers did mean some changes to the work programme; platform white lining, track renewals between Lapford and Kings Nypmton and work on Battesford Bridge could not be […]
Park for free on Thursdays after 6pm in three of our car parks
People coming into Exeter on Thursday evenings will now be able to park for free in our three pay-on-foot muti-storey car parks. The offer, which starts Thursday 20 June, has been brought in to support Thursday late night shopping and the wider evening economy. It is also aimed at spreading the peak of Saturday shopping […]
Backing for scheme to widen access to “AirParkâ€
Proposals to widen a road near Exeter Airport have been approved by Devon County Council in order to unlock new employment land. The Council’s Cabinet supported the scheme to improve 1.25km of Long Lane to enable the development of the Exeter and East Devon Enterprise Zone employment area known as “AirPark”. The road will be […]
More overnight closures needed on Bridge Road in Exeter as opening delayed
Devon County Council is disappointed to have to confirm that the proposed Bridge Road opening date, for the week commencing Monday 31 July, will not be met. This further inconvenience on one of Exeter’s busiest road is regrettable, but the contractor has a full-time seven days a week presence on site. Complex structural engineering work […]
A30 Improvements Consultation
Devon County Council would welcome your views on proposals to improve the A30 trunk road between Honiton and Devonshire Inn. This is an important but currently unimproved single carriageway stretch of the A303/A30/A358 corridor between the South West Peninsula, London and the South East. The County Council hopes to provide the Department for Transport […]
A30 Improvements Consultation
Devon County Council would welcome your views on proposals to improve the A30 trunk road between Honiton and Devonshire Inn. This is an important but currently unimproved single carriageway stretch of the A303/A30/A358 corridor between the South West Peninsula, London and the South East. The County Council hopes to provide the Department for Transport […]
Great Western Railway announce £50m investment in Exeter
Great Western Railway have announced a £50m investment in Exeter. The Company will be building a state of the art depot to service and maintain their new fleet of Hitachi bio-fuel trains coming into service in 2020. This will create many new skilled jobs, including an extensive apprenticeship programme in collaboration with Exeter College.
‘Please Vote!’ Residents in Ide to have historic poll today on £6m Exeter park and ride scheme
Villagers near Exeter will have an historic referendum today over a proposed park and ride scheme. Residents in Ide will vote on whether or not they are in favour of the £6m facility at Round Field next to the A30/A377 junction. The poll between 4-9pm at Ide Primary School will be the first time the […]