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York celebrates cycle bid success
York celebrates cycle bid success
York’s transport chiefs are celebrating today after the announcement that York will be designated an official cycling town.
The council put in a bid to Cycling England for funding to help promote cycling in York earlier this year. The successful bid will mean that the authority will receive £20 per person to develop cycling infrastructure, increase training and promote cycling as a means of transport – a total of £3.68m up to March 2011.
York is one of 11 towns and one city chosen to take part in the initiative this year.
Increases in the number of people actively cycling in York will bring a wide range of benefits to the city, including:
- reduced traffic levels and associated congestion;
- improved air quality;
- better accessibility through the provision of more cycle routes and parking facilities;
- improved road safety through more training of cyclists (both children and adults) and less traffic;
- improved fitness levels of the population, and;
- reduced levels of obesity in both children and adults.
Bill Woolley, director of City Strategy at the council, said: “We are delighted to have been selected by the government to take forward this new initiative. Over the next three years the people of York will see a new emphasis on cycling in the city with new and imaginative schemes being progressed that will enhance the cycle network and provide additional facilities for cyclists.”
