We campaigned successfully to have the A21 dualled between Tonbridge and Pembury, but there are further improvements needed to our roads and rail services on which we all rely, as well as making the area more cycle friendly.
Greg has called for Southeastern to accelerate the introduction of a broader range of flexible ticketing options as the coronavirus crisis looks set to permanently alter commuter behaviour.
Paddock Wood Station is to benefit from a £70,000 investment in its cycling facilities and is only one of three stations in the South East to be nominated for investment.
Greg held a meeting with representatives of Highways England, Kent County Council, Tunbridge Wells Borough Council and Tunbridge Wells Bicycle Users’ Group today, to address the issue of safety along the new section of the A21 and its cycle path.
Following his campaign to secure step-free access at High Brooms Station, which began in July last year, Greg is pleased to announced the government has given the thumbs up to £785,000 of investment in High Brooms Station following a successful bid for the station to be included in the Government
Greg has written to the Secretary of State for Transport, Grant Shapps, calling on him to release some funding to begin planning the next stage of A21 dualling between Kipping's Cross and Lamberhurst.
Greg has called on Transport for South East to specifically back his campaign to upgrade the A228 along Colts Hill in a response to the organisation's publication of its Draft Strategy.
The bid to get High Brooms station nominated for Access for All funding - to install a ramp to the southbound platform- was submitted by Greg and Cllr Carol Mackonochie, Portfolio Holder for Communities and Wellbeing at Tunbridge Well Borough Council, today.
