Councillors voice support for Queensbury tunnel cycle path bid

Councillors in Bradford have given their support for restoring the disused railway tunnel under Queensbury to host a cycle path connecting the city to Halifax.
By The Newsroom
Published 18th Jan 2018, 11:22 BST
Updated 18th Jan 2018, 11:25 BST
Campaigners at the tunnelCampaigners at the tunnel
Campaigners at the tunnel

They voted unanimously in favour of a motion tabled by Andrew Senior who represents Queensbury ward for the Conservatives. It asks Bradford Council to engage with interested parties in exploring options for the tunnel, investigate the feasibility of taking on its ownership, facilitate discussions with the Department for Transport (DfT), Highways England’s Historical Railways Estate (HRE) and other funders, and requests an early report to the Executive setting out these actions.

Mr Senior told Councillors: “The tunnel has been earmarked for an abandonment project involving blocking it all up with concrete at a likely cost of £3 million. If the Council was to allow this to happen, it would mean this marvellous piece of Bradford heritage would be lost forever.”

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Of the tunnel’s “exciting” proposed reuse, he said: “It will attract people from outside of the Bradford district to visit and, in a forward thinking way, this project will create an income back to the Council.”

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