Issue - meetings

ORDERED that:

1.    Executive accept the proposed design submitted by Tees Valley Combined Authority (TVCA) for the Linthorpe Road Cycle Lane detailed at appendix one in the report.

2.    Executive will receive a further report following a final funded proposal from TVCA.

The Executive Member for Environment and Sustainability submitted a report for Executive’s consideration.

Removal of the cycle lane was identified as a political priority for the Council. Tees Valley Combined Authority commissioned WSP Engineering Consultants to produce a design that fits political aspirations of returning the corridor back to a pre-cycle lane scheme.

Middlesbrough Council had reviewed the design and the commissioned Road Safety Audit.

ORDERED that:

1.    Executive accept the proposed design submitted by Tees Valley Combined Authority (TVCA) for the Linthorpe Road Cycle Lane detailed at appendix one in the report.

2.    Executive will receive a further report following a final funded proposal from TVCA.

OPTIONS

The report dealt only with the design of the replacement of the Linthorpe Road Cycle Lane. Consideration around the funding and wider implications of its removal would be brought to a subsequent Executive meeting when the final proposals were received from TVCA.

REASONS

Removal of the scheme had become a political priority to support the local businesses along the cycle corridor, through the increase in the number of parking spaces located directly outside businesses affected by the creation of the cycle lane.