A Mayor of the York & North Yorkshire region will be elected on 2nd May 2024. Transport hustings are being held at Friargate Meeting House in York at 6.30pm on Monday 8th April 2024. This is an opportunity to ask
Mayoral Election May 2024
Local Transport Plan Meeting
On Monday 15th January 2024, we met with North Yorkshire Council (NYC) officers to make our suggestions for the Local Transport Plan (LTP) which the council is drafting. Harrogate Cycle Action’s Document (Which NYC Did Not Read) Around a week
Review of 2023: Another Year of Failure on Cycling by North Yorkshire Council
2023 was another year of failure by North Yorkshire Council (NYC) on cycling. The council failed to meet all its own deadlines, and made no meaningful progress on any of its main cycling projects. Here is an overview of what
Oatlands Consultation Results and Design Options
Consultants WSP carried out traffic surveys, and analysed the results of a Commonplace consultation that was held in Autumn 2022. They reported in February 2023. North Yorkshire Council (NYC) published the WSP report 10 months later, in December 2023. Traffic
North Yorkshire Tries to Push Through Version of Harrogate Station Gateway Focused on Private Motor Vehicles
North Yorkshire Council is trying to push through a version of Harrogate Station Gateway stripped of its cycling elements and focused on private motor vehicles. Executive Member for Transport Keane Duncan told a local paper that reallocating space from motor
Harrogate Station Gateway – From Sustainable Transport to High-Traffic Scheme?
Harrogate Station Gateway appears to be changing from a sustainable transport project to a high-traffic scheme. North Yorkshire Council (NYC) have suggested that the £11 million funding should be spent on increasing motor vehicle traffic in the heart of Harrogate.
West Harrogate Sustainable Transport Package – Analysis and Comment
North Yorkshire Council (NYC) have announced what they intend to do with the money they have left from their 2017 National Productivity Investment Fund (NPIF) bid. TL;DR NPIF – Background to Funding The original NPIF award to North Yorkshire was
Cycle Parking on Cold Bath Road
North Yorkshire Council has put in new Sheffield stands on Cold Bath Road. There are now two stands where previously there was only one. The Sheffield stand that was there before was widthways across the footway. Our request was that
Let’s Talk Transport in North Yorkshire
North Yorkshire Council (NYC) is running a Let’s Talk consultation on residents’ travel habits in advance of the publication of its draft Local Transport Plan (LTP). Have Your Say NYC’s Have Your Say page explains that NYC’s LTP will be
North Yorkshire’s Active Travel Fund 4 Bid Rejected
North Yorkshire’s bid for £3.19 million from the Active Travel Fund 4 (ATF4) has been rejected altogether by Active Travel England (ATE). The bid was made up of the three schemes: The £1.081 million for Victoria Avenue was North Yorkshire’s