Bristol Council is in the dark over the future of the planned 1,000 new bike hangars after changes in the UK Government led to scrapped funding cycling
Speaking to the commission, Pete Woodhouse, Transport Strategy Manager, said that the council staff were unsure how they could spend the leftover money.
He said: “This was a government scheme that we engaged with and were awarded £500,000 to work up a feasibility programme for a bid to develop a number of things to promote zero emissions. This would have included things like enhancing the bus fleet to zero emissions, and creating a zero emissions zone around the Old City.
“Unfortunately, the programme will now not be funded due to changes in government. We’re awaiting a bit of clarity on what the funding remaining from that £500,000 can be used for. This is unfortunately on pause until further funding from the government can be brought forward. So there was a big promise with this, and unfortunately that’s been curtailed.”
This comes as a huge blow for the city’s ambition of becoming more bike-friendly by providing secure storage locations for cyclists, when a week ago, almost a thousand cyclists took over Bristol in a “mind-blowing” and “crazy”We’ve noticed you’re using an ad blocker. If you like road.cc, but you don’t like ads, please consider subscribing to the site to support us directly. As a subscriber you can read road.cc ad-free, from as little as £1.99.
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