By Sasha Glasgow?
Today, it has been announced that over ?3m is to be invested in a new scheme to provide cycle training to 80,000 children by Spring 2009.
The Bikeability Scheme will give parents and children the skills necessary to cycle safely on the UK’s roads.
Providing successful take up of the scheme, this could go a? long way to promote the Government’s drive for more sustainable travel.
Transport Minister, Rosie Winterton said: “Encouraging cycling also encourages healthier lifestyles. Considering obesity now affects around one quarter of adults and 1 in 10 children, encouraging people to take exercise has never been more important.
“At the same time congestion is getting worse. If parents can be satisified their children can cycle safely they are more likely to let them use their bikes. And getting children cycling could even encourage their parents to dust off their own bikes.”
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