How do we get Portsmouth moving? - Traffic & Transport focus with Cllr Peter Candlish
Pompey Politics Podcast
Simon Sansbury and Ian 'Tiny' Morris
5.0 • 4 Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
There are few things that get Portsmouth residents excited nearly as much as the apparently endless roadworks, struggles with parking, the prevalence of potholes. Are you Peeved with EV? Are you bonkers about buses?
- Why are there so many roadworks?
- Are residents' parking zones (RPZs) just a money making scheme that pushes problems to other streets?
- What are '15 minute cities' - are they a centralised control or just a pragmatic way to create neighbourhoods that are less car centric?
- Does the city's Clean Air Zone (CAZ) work in reducing pollution or just push traffic and pollution elsewhere?
- Why we shouldn't rule out buses if they're slow, inconvenient, confusingly ticketed and expensive?
We’ll be taking a deep-dive into all things Traffic & Transportation with Cllr Peter Candlish.
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening and welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast, the podcast where we employ and engage with |
| 0:06.3 | matters of national, local and international importance with calm, recent discussions to get |
| 0:12.0 | to the heart of the matter. I'm Ian Tiny Morris. And I'm Simon Sandsbury. And few things get |
| 0:19.7 | the residents of Portsmouth and indeed probably any city |
| 0:22.7 | aggravated so talking of the opposite of calm aggraved more aggravated than things to do with |
| 0:28.9 | traffic transportation parking and potholes so we'll be we'll be trying to answer such fundamental questions as, does the council just let endless companies dig up, dig up the roads causing traffic chaos in the city? |
| 0:45.5 | Do councils want to trap us in, trap us without cars in 15 minutes cities and what are they? |
| 0:53.9 | Council just loves making money from parking zones, right? |
| 0:56.3 | That's why they keep putting them in. |
| 0:58.8 | And buses are just slow, noisy, expensive and inconvenient. |
| 1:01.7 | And we've got other questions, but those are kind of the themes that seem to kind of |
| 1:06.2 | permeate through all of the interactions that we've had and that we've seen on our social media presence. |
| 1:12.9 | So rather than us to talking about that, we've got someone that actually knows about those things |
| 1:17.0 | and can talk about them with authority. So joining us this evening, we are delighted to welcome back. |
| 1:24.4 | Councillor Peter Candleish, the Cabinet Member for Traffic and Transportation on Portsmouth City Council, |
| 1:29.8 | good evening, Peter. |
| 1:31.4 | I'm welcome. |
| 1:31.9 | Good evening, Simon. |
| 1:32.8 | Good evening, Ian. |
| 1:34.3 | Thank you very much for joining us. |
| 1:36.6 | Just before we get into it, |
| 1:37.8 | just to remind everybody, |
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