The magnificent Gia Margolis met with The Woman From The Council (WFTC) yesterday. It appears the meeting went well. Gia put our proposal forward and the Council have agreed to it in principle. There is some detail design to do and quickly, but looks like some cycle lanes will be coming to a Knaresborough Road near us in August.
I will believe it when I see it and it is too early to consider this a win but things look pretty good at the moment. Thanks for all the support on the petition, Twitter and Facebook it helps give cycling in Harrogate a voice.
Update 3/7/2012
Just had a email from the WFTC conforming what Gia had fedback after the meeting. They will be doing detail designs over the next few days. On a less positive note they are not able to remove or modify the pedestrian refuges currently, something we had asked for.
However NYCC has recently won some funding for sustainable transport and we intend to lobby for some of this to be used to build cycle bypasses around the pedestrian refuges. Something the Cycle Infrastructure Design guide suggests as a a solution to this problem
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Hopefully - no more taking the back roads :)
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