Cheshire West’s Sustainable Transport Taskforce recommends immediate pause to travel lanes on Boughton and Liverpool Road

Cheshire West’s Sustainable Transport Taskforce welcome and fully support the common sense decision made during yesterday evening’s (11/02/2021) Task Force meeting to recommend that the travel lanes on both Boughton and Liverpool Road are immediately suspended as the current evidence hasn’t shown any increase in cycling and walking.

The recommendation that community engagement and better planning now takes place to shape what happens next with an open mind is something we have been asking for from the very beginning and fully endorse. 

We are disappointed to see that Cheshire West & Chester Council failed to provide the Taskforce with further information when requested such as the feedback received from residents so this could be viewed as part of the decision making process. This is just part of a long list of failures and absence of responsibility on the part of the council and if a common sense approach was taken at the very beginning we wouldn’t have had to wait as long as we have for this recommendation. 

We now call on Cheshire West & Chester Council to prove that it is listening and immediately implement these recommendations and initiate a pause as soon as is practically possible. 

We look forward to working with the other members of the Travel Lanes Working Group to help form a community lead approach to deliver what happens next.