North Yorkshire Council has published a list of its cycling priority schemes for Harrogate.

The local authority has also unveiled plans to come up with a similar list of priority schemes for Knaresborough.

The schemes first in line for Harrogate are: extending the Otley Road cycle route; creating a cycleway on Victoria Avenue, the Station Gateway and a package of sustainable transport measures around Otley Road, including speed limits, new crossing facilities and upgraded of bus stops.

All these proposals have been in the pipeline for some time, amid frustration from cyclists about the lack of progress.

The list of priorities is included in a report written by Alexander Kay, senior transport planning officer at the council, for a meeting of the council's environment executive next week. The report says:

The report also reveals the council's medium-term and long-term priorities. Medium-term is defined as less than five years and long-term is defined as more than five years.

Medium-term priority schemes

Long-term priority schemes

The list was compiled after the council assessed 160 potential cycle corridors against 16 criteria.

The report recommends councillors support progressing the Harrogate schemes and agree for work to start on compiling a list of Knaresborough cycle route priorities, using the same methodology as the Harrogate assessment.

But it cautions:

'Another report with no substantive actions'

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