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After telling a number of residents that their pavements were due to be resurfaced in September, Ringway have changed all the dates for work in my division. As a result, the pavement resurfacing work has been pushed back to February 2021. I am try to bring these forward, but it is very frustrating as Ringway are the county council's outsourced contractor and I as a county councillor have little or no say in when they carry out work requested. And they certainly don't tell me when they move work back 5 months!
You can see the current highways work here: one.network/custom/worcestershire/. However, be warned as it can change at any time!
Apologies to those residents who had expected work on their pavements next month.
On a more positive note, work on resurfacing Astwood Road from the junction of Bilford Road to the junction with Brickfields Road is due to start on 20th September (fingers crossed).
Worcestershire County Council Cabinet members actively preventing the county from receiving money from the government for active travel schemes.
What hope is there to get more people walking and cycling if the Conservative Cabinet put barriers in the way?Worcestershire County Council's coming under heavy criticism for refusing to hand any road space from cars to cyclists despite being handed £135,000.
Cycling groups and fellow Conservatives say it looks like they're "not bothered" about improving provision in the county.
BBC Hereford and Worcester has seen a leaked slide from a County Council presentation, suggesting the authority's leadership has red lines.
More with Elliott and Toni at Breakfast on Tuesday from 6am:
This may be of interest to groups in Worcester looking to raise funds: www.spacehive.com/movement/worcs/
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Enabling everyone to imagine, fund & launch local projects that bring Worcestershire to lifeRead my latest newsletter online.
www.matthewjenkins.me.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/arboretum-newsletter-30-online.pdf
A short blog post about the very poor state of cycle parking at the new Worcestershire Parkway railway station.
www.matthewjenkins.me.uk/2020/07/06/lack-of-decent-cycle-parking-at-parkway/