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Missing link on Carlisle-Dalston cycle path to be filled


A missing link in the Carlisle to Dalston cycle path is all set to be plugged.

At the moment, riders have to leave the route, which mainly follows the course of the River Eden in the heart of Denton Holme.

But county councillors yesterday voted to spend about £300,000 so that cyclists can continue along the line of a new flood defence wall rather than diverting along Denton Street.

Members of the county council’s Local Committee for Carlisle said they were taking advantage of a ‘once in a lifetime’ opportunity while the Environment Agency was carrying out its flood defence work there.

Extending the path between Metcalfe Street and Lime Street will mean the city council giving the Environment Agency planning permission for a revised scheme.

It also means the demolition of one property and the partial demolition of another, while consent is required from some other local landowners.

Councillors approved the cost unanimously after hearing from cycling campaigner Damien Morris.

He told them that filling the Denton Holme missing link would not just help locals, but people from all over Carlisle and beyond.

He said: “There will be many more parents prepared to let their children cycle to Robert Ferguson School along a safe cycleway rather than use mum’s taxi.

“But this will also help to make Carlisle a walking and cycling city. It will help to get traffic off the road and therefore there will be less pollution.

“We should be investing in the health of future generations,” he added.

Another campaigner, Dallas Brewis, told councillors that if they missed this chance to fill the missing link it would be gone for ever.

She argued that while 30 per cent of children wanted to ride to school, only three per cent actually did because of the perceived danger of being on roads.

She said cycling was good for peoples’ physical and mental health and for the economy of Carlisle.

Labour’s Stewart Young said he was persuaded of the merits of the case, while Conservative John Mallinson said it would be dreadful to let such an opportunity (to fill the gap) slip by.

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin