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Work to two stretches of canal towpath to begin in Autumn | Bradford Telegraph and Argus (thetelegraphandargus.co.uk)

 

WORK to improve the towpath at two sites of the Leeds Liverpool Canal is due to start in Autumn.

Last year funding to improve a 3km stretch of towpath between Shipley and Apperley Bridge, and another between Silsden and Kildwick, was announced by West Yorkshire Combined Authority.

It was part of a push to encourage more people to use the routes to walk and cycle by "filling gaps" in higher quality surfacing.

The projects are part of the CityConnect scheme that has seen miles of new cycle routes installed between Bradford and Leeds.

 

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A meeting of the Authority's Bradford District Consultation Sub-Committee will be held online this afternoon, and members will be given an update on a number of local transport schemes.

They will hear that the two CityConnect canal projects have received "supportive" feedback from the public after going out to consultation last year.

Work is due to begin on the schemes in Autumn.

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1 hour ago, ditchcrawler said:

Wigan would like their towpaths improved, it just they want CRT to pay for it. Maybe I should I have just sent an email to Mr Conway https://www.wigantoday.net/news/politics/dispute-over-state-of-canal-towpath-in-wigan-3302644

Therein lies the dilemma behind the towpath debate.

 

On its own, CaRT would struggle to maintain the towpaths at even the poor state they were in when we started exploring the canal network (in 1967). The improvements, which are much to be welcomed, have largely been funded by other agencies, even if executed through CaRT. However, that improvement comes at a price - namely that uses other than directly related to canal cruising, have a significant role and access.

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1 hour ago, Victor Vectis said:

But the background was far more interesting than blocks and blocks of flats, sorry, luxury apartments.

Part of Wigan Coal & Iron Cos works, said to be the world's largest ironworks at one time, in terms of paid-up capital. They had a large fleet of boats, and their boatyard at Haigh was the only one on the canal (it was actually on what was the Lancaster Canal up to 1863) to have three permanent slips.

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And they used to be so clean and welcoming:

 

Yes

there was the mud, the horse droppings and industrial pollution. Plants did not seem to grow as much as they do today. Boat people dressed for the conditions of the time. Now you might be lucky to hear the cyclists as they speed past, there is a change in pitch as one is forced to jump out of the way!

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