Readers' Letters: Plan for Otley Road cycle path extension a 'waste of money'

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Readers left the following comments under an article about calls for a rethink on an Otley Road cycle path extension plan.

Even a councillor is admitting the present one is not been used so it would be a waste of money to continue carrying on with this project.

Leonard Redmond

The plans are not ‘broadly welcomed by cyclists.’ Harrogate District Cycle Action naturally supports the principle but not the plans. Cllr Dixon is right that the drop-in session was a presentation of what’s going to happen, not a consultation.

Malcolm Margolis

The present Otley Road scheme is just a hijacked footpath.

Jackie Stanton

How about it being funded entirely by the housing developers thus avoiding yet more wasted illspent taxpayers' money?

Paul Reynolds

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