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First Six Pilot Projects Selected to Offer Free Bicycles for School Age Children.
As part of a series of commitments delivered by the Scottish Government within its first 100 days, the new pilots will test their approaches across the next 12 months and will be fully evaluated. They will test delivery models in urban and rural locations, across primary and secondary schools ages and trial various procurement models. The pilots seek to include local bike shops and will explore opportunities to maximise benefits for the local supply chain, including recycling bikes and encouraging a circular economy approach.
The pilots will test a variety of ownership, loan and subscription models and undertake various methods of assessing need to ensure inclusion and accessibility. Pilots are linked to existing community networks across schools, charities, cycling clubs and active travel hubs – all helping to determine what the best models of local delivery could look like. Full article here.
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As part of a series of commitments delivered by the Scottish Government within its first 100 days, the new pilots will test their approaches across the next 12 months and will be fully evaluated. They will test delivery models in urban and rural locations, across primary and secondary schools ages and trial various procurement models. The pilots seek to include local bike shops and will explore opportunities to maximise benefits for the local supply chain, including recycling bikes and encouraging a circular economy approach.
The pilots will test a variety of ownership, loan and subscription models and undertake various methods of assessing need to ensure inclusion and accessibility. Pilots are linked to existing community networks across schools, charities, cycling clubs and active travel hubs – all helping to determine what the best models of local delivery could look like. Full article here.
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//No one was ever taken to school in my day.//
Nor mine. Perish the thought! We would rather poke our eyes with hot needles than be seen being "delivered" to school. My grammar school was 100 yards inside what is now the London Congestion Zone so it would cost my mum or dad £75 per week to drop me off - if they'd owned a car, that is. I was lucky, I only needed one bus to get to school and the journey was 15-20 minutes. Some of my classmates commuted from the suburbs, involving lengthy tube or train journeys. A free bike? I saved up for my first full size model from the proceeds of my paper round (salary, 14 shillings (70p) a week).
Nor mine. Perish the thought! We would rather poke our eyes with hot needles than be seen being "delivered" to school. My grammar school was 100 yards inside what is now the London Congestion Zone so it would cost my mum or dad £75 per week to drop me off - if they'd owned a car, that is. I was lucky, I only needed one bus to get to school and the journey was 15-20 minutes. Some of my classmates commuted from the suburbs, involving lengthy tube or train journeys. A free bike? I saved up for my first full size model from the proceeds of my paper round (salary, 14 shillings (70p) a week).
I spent hours looking /searching tip sites, and there were many, picking up the rusty frame from one site, wheels from another, it would take weeks before I had all the bits to try and build one. I could walk up the road now and find whole ones in good working order that are just put out for collection by anyone. Disgraceful really.
I wonder if the parents are quite so keen. It sounds good on a clear warm day but what about cycling home on a frosty cold dark night? My Grammar school was 16 miles away, that's 160 miles a week carrying home work and sports gear. All the children where I live travel to schools, even a mile away by bus, private car or taxi, not one cycles or walks. Thousands of children cycling to and from school sounds like a recipe for disaster especially in pouring rain, I doubt they will provide shower and drying facilities which some companies, who encourage cycling to work, do.
Free doesn't actually mean free, its only free to the recipient it doesn't mean nobody pays.
Can they afford it.
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Can they afford it.
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