Chesterfield Cycle Campaign

Many of you will be wondering when the cycle route is going to open. Here is the official explanation from a Chesterfield Borough Council official;

They tell me that things are going slower than we would like, but the nub of it is that the lighting and landscaping works around the routes and the skatepark need to be complete before the paths can be opened.

This is because the county council, which is to adopt them and take on the liabilities that go with adoption, will not take them over until they are properly completed and up to specification.  For that reason the paths are not open to the public yet and that is why they are fenced off.  Tantalisingly, they may look pretty well ready and usable, but they are still unfinished.  The path through to Park Road is only at base course (and that not up to specification and disrupted by being the access route for works on the skatepark).  The skatepark has no landscaping or litter bins yet and no lighting has gone in for any of these facilities. The lighting design is being considered as part of the % for Art scheme across the site.  The route over from Hipper Street South has to remain closed for the reasons already given, so IT LOOKS AS IF IT WILL BE A WHILE BEFORE AN ANNOUNCEMENT CAN SAY THE PATHS ARE OPENING.

Officers here are on the case and a meeting takes place with county council officers on 11th June.  It is to be hoped that the meeting helps get some progress, such that the routes can be adopted and opened.