Three months on – and nothing to show

Remember this survey? It was launched by East Cambridgeshire District Council on 9 March, shortly before the beginning of lockdown. Because of COVID-19 the closing date was extended to the end of May.

Three months on from the closure of the survey, and we’ve still not been told anything about what East Cambridgeshire residents said, or what their priorities are.

Two rounds of bids for the Government’s emergency active travel fund have come and gone, which local residents’ responses could have influenced – but haven’t.

The forward plan for the Council’s Finance & Assets Committee, which is overseeing the walking and cycling surveys and which next meets on 24 September, currently does not schedule any update on the findings.

No date has even been set for a meeting of the Bus Working Group which is overseeing the bus survey.

And members of the Council’s COVID-19 Recovery Working Group were told last week that councillors could not be guaranteed to see the results of the surveys in the next two weeks.