Thame and Haddenham Greenway Survey
On 30/11/2019 At 1:00 am
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FOLLOWING the offer of some provisional funding for an off-road, walking and cycling route between Thame and Haddenham, a survey is now open for comments from potential users.
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Oxfordshire County Council would like to hear from people living in the Haddenham and Thame area about travelling between Haddenham & Thame Parkway Rail Station and Thame.
“We want to understand how people currently travel between these locations to help us assess whether it would be beneficial to introduce an off-road walking and cycling route (known as a Greenway),” explained Oxfordshire County Council.
OCC, Buckinghamshire County Council (BCC) and Sustrans are working in partnership to investigate this scheme. Funds have provisionally been allocated for the scheme through the Oxfordshire Housing and Growth Deal.
The survey opened on November 25, and will close at midnight on Tuesday, December 10, 2019. LINK HERE
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This cycle route has been an aspiration for many years and several feasibility studies etc have been done by SUSTRANS and Bucks CC for instance. The overland route has been thwarted by problems of Land ownership. But, a route is currently being worked on, hence the current public consultation. Such is route is supported by by OCC, SODC and Thame Town Council, where it features in Thame’s Neighbourhood Plan, currently being reviewed. There is ‘money in the pot’ towards such a scheme, so we can only hope that something will finally come of this latest proposal.
I have thought for a long time that there should be an off-road cycle route from Thame to Haddenham and Thame Parkway Station. It is afar too dangerous to cycle along the main road, so this would reduce traffic.
NB the road from the station to Haddenham centre is in a dreadful state for cyclists.