There is hope that an impassible river towpath will receive the restoration it needs after four years. A section of the towpath bank between Aylesford and Maidstone crumbled into the River Medway at the start of the Covid lockdown in spring 2020 and has remained closed since. Tracey Crouch, the MP for Chatham and Aylesford, herself a keen cyclist, has often pressed for repairs and on Wednesday finally got the answer she wanted to hear. During a debate on cycling trails in Westminster Hall, she again raised the matter with the Parliamentary Under-Seccretary for Transport, Guy Opperman. Ms Crouc…
