The Harrogate District Cycle Campaign Group
The Department for Transport (DfT) launched a consultation on a new Integrated Transport Strategy for England on 28th November 2024. In a speech at Leeds Civic Hall then-Transport Secretary Louise Haigh said the Strategy would take a people-first approach. She
We sent out our Autumn 2024 Newsletter on 18th October 2024. Read it here.
Crossings of Oatlands Drive and Wetherby Road, for the benefit of people using Slingsby Walk, are to be delayed by another year according to a report in advance of a (cancelled) council meeting today. North Yorkshire Council (NYC) promised to
North Yorkshire Council has delayed traffic-calming measures on Green Lane, Pannal Ash Road, Yew Tree Lane and Beckwith Road indefinitely. The traffic calming was to be part of a wider 20mph zone promised to residents and Councillors in September 2023.
North Yorkshire Council (NYC) has just published its Active Travel Capability Self-Assessment. It was written in December 2023, but has not been available until now. The council rated itself Level 2, but Active Travel England (ATE) kept NYC among the
HTIP, the Harrogate Transport Improvement Programme, has cost nearly half a million pounds over 5 years without producing any on-the-ground improvements to date. Freedom of Information A Freedom of Information request shows that the cost in consultants’ fees alone is
North Yorkshire Council (NYC) is planning a major urban expansion in West Harrogate, and its Transport Strategy Part 1 and Part 2 has just become available. In the Strategy there is no shortage of warm words about sustainable travel, but
TCF Harrogate Station Gateway started as an ambitious sustainable transport project, designed to reduce reliance on private cars, and to enable more people to use a combination of active travel and public transport. Now it is primarily focused on getting
Mayor of York & North Yorkshire David Skaith wrote on Twitter yesterday that he wants commuting by bike to be the norm in the region. The full quote is: ‘I want York and North Yorkshire to be THE place for
North Yorkshire Council (NYC) continues to fail to deliver meaningful on-the-ground improvements to Harrogate & Knaresborough’s cycle network. We started tracking progress on the council’s projects at the beginning of 2023, after a desperately disappointing 2022 in which NYC made