Councillors talk to Cyclists, Money to be spent - Rejoice

Via twitter I got in touch with councillor Jim Clark about the total lack of consultation by North Yorkshire County Council over the money to be spent on cycling infrastructure over the next two years in Harrogate (LSTF). He put me in touch with Rebecca Burnett who works for Andrew Jones MP, she  has been a BIG HELP moving things forward. We had been trying to get a response from Council Officers in transport for over six months and...

Skipton Road slow, slow. Slow slow slow

There was a news story recently that named Skipton Road in Harrogate was one of the most congested roads in the UK outside London. If you use the road you will know that it is pretty busy in rush hour to say the least. Chris Lee from RAM tracking who carried out the study got in touch recently. Here in a guest post he explains how they did the study and he also includes some resources you might find useful. I recently worked with RAM Tracking...

If we build it they will come - Traffic free to Spofforth

The Tour is still coming, the roads are going to be fixed so Cav and Wiggo can ride across them. Thing is, after that cars are going to use them mainly, which will be nice when I'm in a car but won't make me cycle anymore often. LEGACY I keep hearing lots about LEGACY but its all talk. Here is a concrete idea for some legacy that we could all get behind. The Nidderdale Greenway is already being loved by the people of Harrogate, be they cyclists,...

Family cycling in Grizedale forest

We camped over in Hawkshead in the Lakes at the weekend and we took the bikes. On Saturday we went to the cycle hire place at Grizedale forest and hired a tag-a-long to get our youngest mobile. We picked a nice easy route of maybe 9 miles and set off. We rode the purple dots on the map on the left. The cycling was on forest tracks and the first climb up for maybe half an hour or so was steep in places. Steeper if you were towing a four year...

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...