A chance to have a say on potential improvements to three strategic cycling routes is expected to go-ahead when Nottinghamshire county councillors approve holding a public consultation on the schemes.
Each of the schemes on the A453, A6005 and A612 are still subject to development work including design, costing and feasibility studies.
Funding for the improvements will come from the Transforming Cities Fund, which saw £161 million given to Nottingham and Derby city councils to improve transport links and included a £7.04 million allocation towards the three cycling schemes.
Nottinghamshire County Council will still have to give the necessary planning permission for them to go-ahead.
A report going to the county council's transport and environment committee says "the concerns of local members will be considered wherever possible and will be incorporated as part of the ongoing scheme design and in the development of the final proposals".
The report adds: "It is proposed that the public consultation is undertaken in order to gauge the level of local support for the proposals and to add to the members’ comments in order to help inform the final scheme designs."
This is a summary of the proposals:
A453 corridor: A shared-use footway constructed along the former A453 between the city/county boundary at Clifton and the East Midlands Parkway station at Ratcliffe on Soar. The route then continues south to the county/Leicestershire boundary at Kegworth, with a spur to Sutton Bonington to serve the university student population at that campus.
A612 corridor: Widening the existing shared use footway between Mile End Road and Private Road Number 1. This will require the narrowing of the existing carriageway in order to avoid the need to remove a significant number of mature trees and vegetation alongside the route. The carriageway narrowing will not affect road capacity. The proposed scheme extends the existing high-quality cycle route along the A612 and forms the first phase of a long-term aspiration to upgrade the existing cycle facilities along the length of the A612 to Burton Joyce.
A6005 corridor: A mixture of signed routes using quiet residential roads, shared use footways and, where possible, high-quality segregated cycle track. It should be noted that one of the proposals would require the loss of several mature trees although there is an opportunity to replace the lost trees with a larger number within the project resulting in an overall net gain in tree specimens. However, this is dependent on specific proposed measures being retained in the final design.
The meeting takes place from 10.30am on Wednesday, February 9 at County Hall and can be viewed live on the county council's YouTube channel.
