Good Ways Exeter – Route Sharing Sprint

Looking from left to right we see suburban housing, a road with a few parked cars, a long straight park with a path and trees and then more housing. A person is walking on the path in the distance.
A path cut in the long grass by Dunsford Road in the west of Exeter.

Help put Exeter’s best walking, wheeling and cycling routes on the map.

Know a good way to get around Exeter? Come along to Exeter Library and share it with us.

We’re bringing local people, groups and organisations together for two days of route sharing as part of the Good Ways Exeter pilot.

You can share routes you already know, discover routes from other people, and help us test the new Good Ways app and website before they launch publicly later in the autumn.

Friday 11 September — Organisation Drop-In

12:30–15:30
Rougemont Room, Exeter Library
For groups, organisations and businesses
Bring a laptop or smartphone if you can. Paper maps will be available. Bring some lunch if you’d like.

For community groups, organisations and businesses that would like to find out more and start creating routes for their communities, customers, staff and audiences.

Drop in at any time. A new session starts on the hour, every hour, with a short introduction and demonstration.

We will show you how Good Ways works, help you add routes and talk through ways your organisation could get involved.

Register for the drop-in here.

Saturday 12 September — Route Sharing Sprint

10:00–15:00
Rougemont Room, Exeter Library
Everyone welcome.
Bring a laptop if you can. Paper maps will be available. Bring lunch if you would like.

Let’s see how many routes we can share in six hours! Come and share one route or stay and help us add lots.

A new session starts on the hour, every hour, with a short introduction and demonstration. We’ll then help you get started.

You might share:

  • a useful way across town
  • a quiet route that avoids busy roads
  • an accessible route to the shops
  • a favourite walk or cycle
  • a route you use all the time and would recommend to someone else.

You don’t need any special skills or experience.

And despite the name, there’s no actual sprinting involved.

What will we do?

Together we’ll:

  • share good local routes
  • try and check routes other people have added
  • test the new Good Ways website and app
  • tell us what works and what we could make better.

Come for one session, stay for longer, share one route or share many. It’s completely up to you.

Register here.

Accessibity

The Library has step free access to the Rougemont Room and an accessible toilet. Read more here.

Part of Good Ways Exeter

Good Ways Exeter is bringing local people together to create an app and giant interactive map of good routes that people recommend.

The project is being developed here in Exeter and is funded by Active Travel England.

Find out more about Good Ways Exeter and join the pilot.

We are very grateful to Active Travel England for funding our Good Ways Exeter pilot.