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Dec 2023
A £100,000 project to make a minor Harrogate road better for cycling has been scrapped after being criticised as a “waste of money”.
North Yorkshire Council revealed in September it planned to upgrade Nursery Lane, which is a minor road off Otley Road, into an off-road leisure route.
The scheme came as part of 10 proposals put forward to reduce congestion in west Harrogate.
However, a council report due before Cllr Keane Duncan, executive councillor for highways, next week shows the plan has now been dropped.
The project was criticised by cyclists at a meeting of Harrogate and Knaresborough area constituency committee in September.
David Mitchell, of Harrogate District Cycle Action, told councillors that spending £100,000 on Nursery Lane was “not sensible because it would not make a meaningful difference to the cycle network”.
Meanwhile, Cllr Paul Haslam, a Conservative who represents Bilton and Nidd Gorge, told the meeting the cycling community had told him the proposal was “a complete waste of money because that lane is already safe”.
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