HCC cancels Active Travel schemes and we want to know why – cycle​ winchester

As we feared, Hampshire County Council has chosen to remove existing, tranche 1, active travel schemes, and cancel the bulk of planned tranche 2 schemes. Cycle Winchester is asking HCC why. The evidence base for this decision seems flawed.
To summarise the key points of the decision:
• Hyde Street is reopened to through motor traffic and the lane closure in North Walls is removed.

• The closure of Great Minster Street is retained, to promote economic activity in this important hospitality area.

• The planned scheme to provide a two-way cycle lane on North Walls has been cancelled.

• The planned scheme to provide a segregated cycleway on Upper High Street has been cancelled.

• A short stretch of segregated cycleway on High Street will go ahead, but now detached from the Upper High Street we feel it will be much less useful.

• Cycling contraflow on Parchment Street and St Peter Street will go ahead.

• There is a vague promise of a ‘longer-term package of improvements’.