Council blasted over 'ridiculous' 200-metre bike lane that cost £3.8m
A Labour run council has been accused of presiding over a "waste of money" after spending almost £4million on a bike lane measuring less than 200 metres long. Plymouth City Council is facing fierce criticism over its £3. 8million cycle lane, which stretches just 197 metres in the suburb of Plymstock. Furious local residents have called for the scheme - which works out at roughly £20 000 per metre - to be axed. The council intends to bore through an abandoned railway tunnel to construct the
A Labour run council has been accused of presiding over a "waste of money" after spending almost £4million on a bike lane measuring less than 200 metres long. Plymouth City Council is facing fierce criticism over its £3. 8million cycle lane, which stretches just 197 metres in the suburb of Plymstock. Furious local residents have called for the scheme - which works out at roughly £20 000 per metre - to be axed. The council intends to bore through an abandoned railway tunnel to construct the
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