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New bike parking in schools
Posted on 17/07/2009
Highways, Transportation & Waste Management
A total of 12 county schools are set to benefit from new cycle parking.
Leicestershire County Council will be working with the schools on the £55,000 project to install secure cycle parking in a bid to encourage more children to cycle to school.
The areas chosen for the new cycle parking are in central Leicestershire and Loughborough – areas where transport studies show congestion is heaviest.
These areas would benefit from an increase in the number of people cycling to help alleviate the congestion around school gates.
Lesley Pendleton, Cabinet Member for Highways and Transportation at the County Council, said: “We have chosen to concentrate on areas that have high levels of congestion.
“By installing secure cycle parking we hope that many more school children will be encouraged to ride their bikes to school.”
School children will have a chance to get involved with the design of the cycle parking, and they will help us with monitoring the success of the cycle parking after the installation.”
To find out more about cycling in the county, visit www.leics.gov.uk/cycling.
Notes to editors:
The County Council invited 113 schools in those areas to apply for funding towards school cycle parking. The bids were prioritised and the 12 schools (listed below) were selected. Schools not selected this year will be invited to apply again next year if funding is made available.
Brookside Primary School - Oadby
Brocks Hill Primary School - Oadby
Fairfield Community Primary School - South Wigston
Martinshaw Primary School - Groby
Glen Hills Primary School – Glen Parva
Red Hill Primary School - Narborough
Danemill Primary School - Enderby
Leysland High School - Countesthorpe
Brockington College – Enderby
Thorpe Acre Junior School – Loughborough
Garendon High School – Loughborough
St Mary’s Primary School Loughborough