OPPOSITION parties joined forces to tell City of York Council’s ruling executive: “Make up your mind”.

Conservatives, Labour and Green Party councillors voted together to make the Liberal Democrat leading councillors rehold their meeting over the future of the city’s road network, public transport, cycling and pedestrian facilities.

They wanted a definite “agree” or “disagree” decision on the 24 recommendations from the traffic congestion ad-hoc scrutiny committee.

Two-thirds of the recommendations were “noted” by the executive at its meeting on April 13, with no decision taken on their merit.

Labour councillor David Merrett, the traffic committee’s chairman, said: “It is an unsatisfactory way to handle a very detailed set of recommendations from the committee.”

Committee vice-chairman, Tory councillor Ben Hudson said: “The executive should be expected to consider the recommendations seriously and say yes or no. We did get cross-party support on the whole of it.”

Together with the Green Party leader, Coun Andy D’Agorne, they went to the Scrutiny Management Committee which voted 5-3 in their favour to send the report back to the executive.

Liberal Democrat councillor Richard Watson, who voted against sending the report back, defended the way the executive had handled the report initially, and said the right approach was for the council to take on board the contents of the report when developing the long-term future of the city’s transport network.

The report will now be reconsidered by the council’s ruling executive at a future date.