A GRANT of almost £89,000 has been secured in Warrington to offer on-road cycle training to local children.
The Department for Transport funding is to continue the Bikeability programme offering free, on-road cycle training to every 10 year old in the area.
Bikeability is a national standard for cycle training and replaces the previous Cycling Proficiency Test.
Warrington pupils have been benefiting from this training since 2006 and it is delivered directly to schools by BikeRight of Manchester.
Cllr Alan Litton, the borough council’s executive member for environment and transport, said: “Cycling is a fun and healthy way for children to get about, and it also gives them a degree of freedom and independence. It is good for the environment and cycling for short journeys helps to reduce the number of cars on the roads.
“I am delighted that we will be able to continue to deliver this extremely important life skill which gives young people the competence and confidence to cycle to school and elsewhere on quieter roads.”
Picture: Bikeability training in action on Warrington’s roads.
A GRANT of almost £89,000 has been secured in Warrington to offer on-road cycle training to local children.
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might be an idea to include some of the adults as well as they seem to be the worse offenders for riding without lights etc
Completely agree… and definately teenagers too. Sadly most of the young kids doing the course will, just like like those before them, loose all they have been taught and all sense and reasonong behind it once they get to high school.
I certainly wouldn’t encourage children to use bikes on Warrington’s roads! The increasing numbers of children who suffer from asthma is bad enough without them breathing in the exhaust fumes in Warrington’s ever more congested streets. That money would be better spent subsidising school buses and would get some of the ‘one kid per car’ school traffic off the roads!!!!
……..”Cycling is a fun and healthy way for children to get about, and it also gives them a degree of freedom and independence. It is good for the environment and cycling for short journeys helps to reduce the number of cars on the roads”………….. My 10 year old often leaves his Mustang at home and pops to the shops on his bike!