Issue - meetings

Petition received from residents requesting cycling facilities along Crichton Avenue

Meeting: 20/10/2008 - Executive Members for City Strategy and Advisory Panel (Item 51)

51 Petition received from Residents Requesting the Provision of Formal Cycle Facilities on Crichton Avenue PDF 40 KB

This report advises Members of the receipt of a petition from residents requesting that formal cycling facilities be provided on Crichton Avenue and the actions that are currently underway to investigate the provision of such facilities.

Additional documents:

Decision:

Advice of the Advisory Panel

That the Executive Member for City Strategy be advised to

(i) Note the content of this information report;

(ii) Note that Officers will report back to the EMAP meeting in Spring 2009 with proposals for the inclusion of this scheme in next years programme;

(ii) Request Officers to respond to the residents responsible for putting the petition together.

Decision of the Executive Member for City Strategy

RESOLVED:That the advice of the Advisory Panel be accepted and endorsed.

REASON: (i) To inform members of the work currently underway in relation to the petition.

(ii) To inform the petitioners of the ongoing work.

Minutes:

Consideration was given to a report, which informed the Panel of receipt of a petition from residents requesting that formal cycling facilities be provided on Crichton Avenue from Burton Stone Lane, on both sides of the carriageway, to the junction of Crichton Avenue and Wigginton Road. The report also detailed actions, which were currently underway to investigate the provision of such facilities.

It was reported that as part of the recent “Cycling City” bid an orbital cycle route concept had been developed which would enable cyclists to travel along either traffic-free or lightly trafficked routes to transverse the city without having to go anywhere near the more heavily-trafficked city centre. This orbital route would use existing infrastructure, where available, but would also necessitate the infilling of gaps at various points along its length. One such gap was the length of Crichton Avenue, which would link any provision on Kingsway North with Sustrans’ Foss Islands Path. As the orbital route formed a key part of the Cycling City project this proposal would be given a higher priority than it might have previously.

Members questioned whether these proposals could be included in next years programme if a report was not to come back until Spring 2009.