'Overwhelming support' to reopen road to cars

LIFE on roads around a controversial car-ban street in Exeter has become 'intolerable' according to campaigners fighting to get it reopened.

- GUY HENDERSON Local Democracy Reporter OLWEN FOGGIN

Councillors from four different parties attended a protest at Dryden Road, where around 1,800 people have already signed a petition calling for cars to be allowed back in.

The road has been closed since the Covid crisis five years ago when it was intended to form part of a fast, safe way in and out of the city for pedestrians and cyclists.

Now, though, the campaigners say the displaced traffic which has been diverted to surrounding streets instead is creating congestion, pollution and hazards.