A committee has accepted that a "pinch point" in Otley Road, Skipton, was right to be re-instated after it was removed to make way for the Tour de France, this summer.

The crossing point was originally set up following a request from Brougham Street Children's Centre for a safe crossing for children.

Craven area committee was told that the removal and re-instatement had cost £5,000 and the money had come from the £160,000 Government hand-out to the authority for the changes needed to "street furniture" at the time of the race.

Councillor Eric Jaquin told the committee he had been lobbied by residents in the Regent estate who wanted to see it replaced by a zebra crossing, which they believed was safer.

But councillors learned that the cost of a zebra was likely to have been in some considerable excess of the re-instatement of the "pinch point." which was no cost to council tax payers.