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Tolworth Broadway
Tolworth's Greenway to be doubled in length
Tolworth's controversial Greenway is set to double in length to encourage cycling.
Plans to extend the green striped path from the Broadway, down Ewell Road all the way to Red Lion Road will soon be unveiled as part of Kingston’s £30 million mini-Holland cycling programme. A Kingston Council spokesman said it would send the plans to public consultation in the autumn with the hope of beginning building work in summer 2017.
He could not say how much the project would cost but added that the budget would come entirely from the mini-Holland funding the borough was awarded by the Mayor of London Boris Johnson in 2014. The original Tolworth Broadway was unveiled months behind schedule in November 2013 at a cost of £3 million, two-thirds funded by Transport for London. The path aimed to encourage cyclists and pedestrians to share the same road space on Tolworth Broadway. But the Broadway has had limited success in achieving its aims, according to councillors and cycling groups.
Conservative councillor David Cunningham said that if a large housing development on the former Tesco Toby Jug site were built then extra cycling provisions would be needed.
The Greenway idea was condemned by Kingston Conservatives in the years leading up to construction. It was described as “dangerous” and an “an experiment and one that could lead to death or injury” by the opposition in 2012. Liberal Democrat councillors even accused Tory councillors of lobbying Mayor Boris Johnson to have funding pulled for the controversial scheme. The Greenway has also received criticism from environmental campaigners over the sets of “hardy” Italian cypress evergreen trees that turned brown and died quickly after being planted on the path.
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