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Council secures funding for £14m town centre overhaul… but fuming locals shoot down “bicycle-obsessed council” because plan includes a cycle lane; James May ‘invents’ the cargo bike + more on the live blog

It's another chilly one out there, wrap up warm if you are heading out... or just stay nice and toasty inside with Dan Alexander and the live blog for company

Thu, Nov 20, 2025 09:15

Harrogate Station Gateway plans (North Yorkshire Council)

“Unacceptable” last-minute changes to active travel scheme on “priority” cycling route do “nothing at all” for cyclists and focus on car parking ticket machines and a bus stop instead, say campaigners

“They’ve been making promises of ‘jam tomorrow’ for cycling for 10 years,” the local cycling group said, after plans to install protected bike lanes were scrapped by the council due to “budgetary constraints”

Wed, May 01, 2024 18:57

“It is openly anti-cycling infrastructure”: Cyclists debunk residents group’s flyer objecting to much-maligned cycle lane because it would replace a strip of grass verge

Cyclists accused the residents group of already having their minds made up after the “openly anti-cycling infrastructure” leaflet was distributed

Wed, Apr 24, 2024 16:48

Councillors urge Tory-led council to “get its act together so people can get out of cars” after series of “failed and abandoned” cycling schemes

Despite active travel infrastructure being labelled as “absolutely terrible”, a Conservative councillor maintained that the council hadn’t done a “bad job”

Mon, Mar 25, 2024 13:52

Council set to scrap £100k leisure cycling route – after bike riders branded it a “waste of money”

Campaigners said plan for route in west Harrogate was “not sensible because it would not make a meaningful difference to the cycle network”

Tue, Dec 12, 2023 16:34

Cycling campaign group bemoans “huge disappointment” as cycle lane and Dutch-style roundabout plans scrapped

"From a cycling point of view, most of the worthwhile elements have been stripped out of the scheme..."

Tue, Dec 05, 2023 11:39

Campaigners accuse council of “failing our children” after failing to deliver “significant cycling infrastructure for nine years”

“Harrogate could have had a first-class walking and cycling network… but we’re bound by a focus on people in their cars.”

Sun, Nov 26, 2023 16:18

Cyclists blast plans to upgrade “already safe” cycle route as “outrageous waste of money” after major active travel schemes axed

Campaigners say the new proposals will “not make a meaningful difference to the cycle network” and that cyclists “need safe routes, not more signposts”

Wed, Sep 20, 2023 11:26

Otley Road cycle lane (via Twitter, Harrogate Cycle Action)

Campaigners blast “hugely disappointing” decision to abandon “failed” cycling schemes, four years on from hosting world championships

Harrogate District Cycle Action claims that “almost all the cycling elements have been removed” from two active travel schemes in the North Yorkshire town

Sun, Sep 10, 2023 12:44

“Desperately disappointing”: Cycling group urges council to stand firm after legal challenge puts active travel project “in jeopardy”

The local authority has paused the project after a property firm claimed it would damage businesses in the town, while a Conservative MP called it a “dead scheme”

Fri, Aug 25, 2023 17:08