The Harrogate District Cycle Campaign Group
Secretary of State Grant Shapps yesterday told councils to give more space to active travel (walking and cycling) as the country emerges from lockdown and gets moving again. He announced £250 million funding for pop-up bike lanes, wider pavements, and
The Cycle Forum is attended by senior members of HDCA, and by representatives of the two councils, HBC and NYCC. The HDCA members on the Cycle Forum made a number of requests to the councils on 2nd May 2020. They
Our Spring Newsletter was sent out today – see the HDCA Spring Newsletter.
Like Ian Hallett (letters, 23 April), my wife and I have revelled in some of the silver linings of this grim pandemic, walking in our neighbourhood and cycling in the glorious countryside west of Harrogate, to Almscliffe Crag or Lower
Milan is to use the pandemic as the opportunity to press ahead with a reallocation of space from cars to cycling and walking, writes Laura Laker in the Guardian. 35km (22 miles) of streets will be transformed over the summer
London Cycling Campaign has a good article on short-term action during the crisis, and ideas for a shift to low-carbon transport after the crisis. Right now, roads are quiet enough for many new people to cycle for essential journeys or
The DfT has started the process of devising a plan to decarbonise transport. The new document, Decarbonising Transport: Setting the Challenge, accepts that we’ll have to use our cars less, and states that public transport and active travel will become
This is a letter to Health Secretary Matt Hancock, sent on 20th March 2020 by HDCA member Malcolm Margolis. Dear Mr Hancock, In order to ease the burden on the NHS, will you as Secretary of State for Health ask
As reported recently, the Budget allocated £27 billion for new high-carbon roads, and nothing at all for active travel. The result of allocations from the existing Transforming Cities Fund also appeared very disappointing, with initial indications that Harrogate had missed
Yesterday’s Budget was the first delivered by new Chancellor Rishi Sunak. It was a high-carbon Budget, with a huge splurge on road-building and zero investment in active travel. £27bn is a massive sum to spend on main roads. Transport is