SCC Leatherhead Ashtead cycle path consultation

SCC have secured £600,000 to improve cycling between Leatherhead and Ashtead. The proposals are online for comment and I would encourage those of you who use the route regularly to do so. The plan is to put a path along the A24 but there are some "uncertainties" about the two most difficult areas... crossing the Leatherhead bypass ( where a Toucan crossing is proposed but not certain) and the stretch past the Shell garage to Woodfield Lane in Ashtead where the plan does not match the words that go with it.

There is a countercurrent of thinking in Ashtead suggesting improvements to the Ottways Lane/Linden Pit Path route that most of us use from time to time but the difficulties of traffic segregation and parking in Ottways Lane make this difficult to meet the criteria. However I'm sure we will all continue to use this if they dont get the A24 proposal right.

The details and questionnaire can be found at:

www.surrey.gov.uk/leatherheadashteadcycling

Have a look and have your say. Otherwise don't moan afterwards!

Author: Brian