The Government is to commit public funding to a project that will see the partial infilling of the Queensbury Tunnel, reports The Halifax Courier, the 1.4-mile long Queensbury Tunnel, was closed in the 1950s, and the focus of a longstanding campaign to reopen it as part of a greenway network.
The Halifax Courier writes:
… Millions have previously been spent strengthening the tunnel to prevent further damage occuring there, so that it could potentially be used in future. But additional public funding to infill the tunnel has been authorised….
In a letter to the Queensbury Tunnel Society, Lilian Greenwood MP, Minister for the Future of Roads, suggested that ‘there are less costly greenway options which do not use the tunnel that can be delivered, and that these options would provide the same or similar active travel benefits to the local community but at a lower cost to the public purse.’…
… The Queensbury Tunnel Society has written to Ms Greenwood to express its concerns and make a case in support of the tunnel’s retention.
