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Setback for cycling as National Park scraps public bike hire plan

Andrew Forster
22 August 2014
B-cycle’s Graham Bright: road racing events have whipped up anti-cycling sentiment in the New Forest
B-cycle’s Graham Bright: road racing events have whipped up anti-cycling sentiment in the New Forest

 

The New Forest National Park Authority this week killed-off plans for the UK’s first mass public bike hire scheme in a rural area, citing anti-cycling views in the local community as a contributory factor.

The decision has angered pro-cycling groups and the company, B-cycle, which had been selected to run the scheme. It said ministers should prevent the National Park Authority from reallocating the £2m DfT grant for the project to other cycling schemes.

The self-service scheme would...

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