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Easy Riders
Released on 15 September 2005
Officers from South Norfolk Council are geared up and ready for their 88-mile cycle ride to raise money for the British Heart Foundation.
The fun ride starting tomorrow and continuing Saturday follows hard on the 'wheels' of the council's own campaign to get more people out of their cars and on to bikes.
They will be following route maps of the rides which are set out in the council's own Bike It! leaflets, which offer family cycling routes around the district's stunning countryside and through its historic market towns. The Bike It! leaflets are on the council's website.
You can find them by following this link:
Bike it! cycle routes
The council has called for better cycle path provision and recently published its new Cycling Strategy. It ties in with the Government’s target of doubling the number of trips made by bike between 2002 and 2012 and identifies six objectives to enable more people to use bicycles as a healthy and environmentally-friendly alternative to the car.
Half of all households are believed to own a bike, yet most personal trips are made by car - even though nearly half of those journeys are less than two miles in distance. With increasing pollution and falling fitness levels, the council wants people use this convenient, economic, healthy, fun and environmentally-friendly form of transport.
Residents responding to the council's cycling questionnaire have backed the need for separate cycleways, publicised leisure routes and safe routes to school.
Concern about safety came up often - in particular about drivers who pass too close to cyclists and at too great a speed. To increase safety and promote cycling, the council will:
require developers to provide cycle links
protect the land required for the County Cycleway Network
promote new cycle paths, leisure cycle routes and cycle-friendly facilities such as dropped kerbs and cycle parking
support the County Council’s ‘Safe and Healthy Routes to School’ initiatives and production of Market Towns Walking and Cycling Strategies
organise the South Norfolk Cycling Forum and encourage staff to ride to work
To get in touch with Paul Hunt, who is leading the ride, you can reach him on his mobile on the road tomorrow on 07789 170946.
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| contact officer/team: | Communications Team |
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| web: | online enquiry form |
| email: | communicationsteam@s-norfolk.gov.uk |
| telephone: | 01508 533611 or 01508 533983 |
| minicom/textphone: | 01508 533622 |
| address: | South Norfolk House Swan Lane Long Stratton Norwich NR15 2XE |
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