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No, not for political expediency - for consideration of the city centre as a whole. They want to see a reduction of vehicles in the city centre and are trying to achieve it by encouraging people to walk, cycle or take the bus. You say that that's puritanical. I say it's reasonable. You're...

If that's your mantra, the majority of Brightonians do not agree with any party's policies, so that phrase is redundant. 'Punishing Brighton motorists'? Scary that people think along such puritanical lines. If it's gesture politics you're after, how about seeing how many of these policies are...

I think that there has been an almighty pre-judgement on what the Greens stood for and what they intended to do when they won the largest number of council seats. One of them was the nonsensical consideration of 'declaring war on cars' without finding out what they stood for. The truth is...

Is reducing the speed limit to 20mph really 'anti-car'? Is bringing in bus and cycle lanes (as actively promoted by the Tories) 'anti-car'? I mean... really? Does this include the 80 or so other councils who have also brought in 20mph speed restrictions - none of whom are Green? Aside from...

Your post came across as a general attack on all family-run businesses, city-wide, whereas your example seems to cite parking restrictions (of which your family's business appears to have been an unfortunate victim). I used the example of North Laine doing well to point out that that's evidently...

I said 'thriving shopping centre', though there are some businesses thriving enough to open second, third and fourth shops, but that's not my central point. I disagree with your assertion of North Laine. It attracts residents and daytrippers alike and pretty much always busy - come rain or...

You said 'driving around the city center'. Lewes Road starts at Elm Grove and heads north-east out of the city. The plans from the original application meet the government's sustainable transport approval, or they would demand their money back. And, as was stated, all parties voted it through...

Great response.

One - you said City Centre. You can hardly call Lewes Road that. Two - that was a plan brought in by the Tories, paid for by a Coalition government, and backed by everyone in council.

Such as...?

Good point, well missed. All roads with 30mph cameras are considered 'aterial' roads or through roads where previously some would drive through at 40 or 50mph (they still do on my road); 30mph is considered safe enough on these particular roads. The city centre and residential roads are the...

No-one has 'unilaterally declared war on cars'. It's a phrase used by people who have convinced themselves that this is what the Council intends to do, without realisingn Since when was bringing in bus lanes 'declaring war on the motorist? And which bus lanes were brought in by these...

The notion of a car-free city centre won't work, of course. Pedestrianising vast swathes of the city centre (all of the Lanes, North Laine) etc. will have a detrimental effect on pretty much everything. But then, few people who are thinking straight are advocating it.

Utter gibberish. North Laine is a thriving shopping centre with small independent / family-run businesses at its core. The turnover of shop spaces is no better or worse than before. The Greens have done nothing in terms of changing road transport policy in the city centre, nor have they closed...