According to information released by the Council yesterday a decision on the future of the access restrictions on Lendal Bridge will be taken at a meeting being held on 6th May.
However many items on the Councils Forward Programme of decision debates are subsequently put back – some indefinitely.
The Council’s web site has been very “flaky” over the last few weeks with many residents complaining about difficulty in accessing the background papers for meetings with some pages simply “freezing” for long periods of time.
Lendal Bridge in 1868, five years after it was first opened. To pay for the costs of constructing the bridge, a toll of two pence per (horse drawn) vehicle was charged until 1894. A £60 charge was reintroduced by York’s Labour Council in August 2014
However the Council has so far failed to supply the month 6 progress report on their web site. This was information that they promised to regularly update.
Some may think that this suggest some “cleansing” of the data is already underway.
Nor have the Council published the results of its survey of residents opinion or details of the “public opinion poll” which they announced earlier in the month
The first debate and vote on the future of Lendal bridge will come at the Council meeting taking place on Thursday 27th March. The Liberal Democrats will propose that the ANPR cameras are switched off immediately.
They will also be pressing Cllr Merrett to answer thee question that he evaded at the Council meeting held in December.
The question asks for information on,
“a) The number of appeals lodged each week since the beginning of August against PCNs issued for contraventions of traffic restrictions on Coppergate and Lendal Bridge
b) The number of appeals which have been successful each week
c) The total revenue that the Council has received so far from PCNs following the introduction of the new restrictions on Coppergate and Lendal Bridge
d) The weekly changes to journey times (all modes of transport) on each arterial road and on each section of the inner ring road since the introduction of the new traffic restrictions
e) The numbers of accidents reported on roads in the City centre comparing the last 6 months with the equivalent period in 2012/13
a) The latest air quality monitoring reports for key sites in and close to the City centre, including the Leeman Road area, and comparing these with last year?”