Show me the money

I put a freedom of information request into North Yorkshire County Council about the 143 grand of Local Sustainable Transport Fund (LSTF) money that should have been spent in the year to this April.

Here is what they came back with...

This is what should have been spent and on what

Project	Programme 12/13 (£k)
Area 3 – Harrogate Town Centre	60
Radial 2 – A661 Wetherby Road Corridor	33
Cross Cutting Measures	50
Total	143

Here is what I got back as a statement of what was spent

Project	Project Element	Total Expenditure (£k)
Area 3 – Harrogate Town Centre	Cycling Infrastructure	19.988
	Cycle Storage	1.995
	Pedestrian Links	5.005
	Visitor Information	11.364
Radial 2 – A661 Wetherby Road Corridor	Cycle links to the Great Yorkshire Showground	13.004
	Travel Information for exhibition venues	19.184
Cross Cutting Measures	Bus pre-emption at traffic signals	48.950
	Cycle map	0.100
Deferral agreed with Department for Transport		22.474
Total		142.064

So your County Council transport department has money to spend on your behalf and hasn't bothered to do this. Out of 140k they were supposed to spend they failed to spend 22k. Should you be worried? Well thats 15% of what is available. If you want better cycling infrastructure and you are being told there is no money you should be. I have raised this issue with a few councillors but so far nobody seems interested. 

How should you vote tomorrow? Well that is entirely up to you but the current administration would claim to support sustainable transport but in practice they don't always. Lets see how they do in this financial year when there is much more money to spend.