Sustainable transport

Sussex Wildlife Trust believes there is a need to move towards truly sustainable and accessible public transport systems in Sussex. We believe that transport policies should be founded on the principles of smarter travel: reducing the need to travel, increasing travel choices, and maximising efficiency through new technology.

Our transport policy supports measures which:

Reduce the need to travel

  • via well-designed towns, cities and neighbourhoods with local, accessible services
  • and actions to enable home-working and reduce workplace travel e.g. sustainable and efficient internet connectivity right across Sussex

Improve public transport and active travel routes

  • for walking and cycling
  • and integrate these routes with strategic green infrastructure wherever possible

Promote less carbon-intensive forms of transport 

  • and reduce dependency on private vehicle use

Promote management of existing transport infrastructure to improve the impacts on nature

  • by reconnecting habitats severed by linear transport corridors
  • and sympathetic habitat management alongside roads, railways and canals and within the area under the control of transport hubs

Seek to minimise the damage of new transport schemes 

  • by ensuring the true benefits and costs to nature and natural capital are considered

In this section

Roads - key principles

Minimise demand, widen travel choices, improve efficiency, and only increase capacity as a last resort

Brighton Marina Dredging License update


Brighton Marina Dredging License update

Update on the Brighton Marina Dredging Application


Arundel A27 bypass stopped - for now

Arundel A27 bypass stopped - for now


Stop the Arundel Bypass

Stop the Arundel Bypass


Road Rage

Road Rage


Bypass threat to Binsted Valley

Bypass threat to Binsted Valley


Help stop the Arundel Bypass

Help stop the Arundel Bypass


£450 million to sever landscapes and principles

£450 million to sever landscapes and principles


A27 Arundel - another opportunity to comment?

A27 Arundel - another opportunity to comment?
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