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    Peter Fox
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    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/5115906.stm

    £15m boost for children's cycling
    Cyclist
    Labour has failed to get people on their bikes, the Tories say
    Parents should abandon the school run and encourage children to cycle to
    school, the government will say later.

    Transport Secretary Douglas Alexander will announce that an extra £15m
    will be spent over the next three years on the Cycling England
    initiative.

    This will provide cycling proficiency lessons for 100,000 children and
    more cycle lanes will be linked to schools.

    [continues]

    *Cycling deficiency* I hope this is just the BBC's journalistic
    standards and not official policy.

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    PETER FOX Not the same since the bridge building business collapsed
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    www.eminent.demon.co.uk - Lots for cyclists

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  2. Tony Raven
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    Peter Fox wrote on 26/06/2006 07:08 +0100:

    Quoted message said:

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/5115906.stm

    £15m boost for children's cycling

    And the Sustrans idiot interviewed on BBC Breakfast said "Parents are
    worried about the dangers of cycling on the roads and rightly so"
    Arghhhhhhh!!! Stop doing that!!

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    Tony

    "Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using
    his intelligence; he is just using his memory."
    - Leonardo da Vinci

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  3. Tom Crispin
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    Peter Fox said:

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/5115906.stm

    £15m boost for children's cycling

    My school's share of the pot is £14,200 over two years.

    Well, not quite.

    I have £4,700 this year to establish cycle training for 6/7 year olds
    as part of the PE curriculum, and to continue with the on-road cycle
    training I already offer to 8 - 11 year olds.

    2007/8 I have £9,500 to continue with the training at the school and
    to establish a similar project at a neighbouring school.

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  4. John B
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    Tom Crispin said:
    Peter Fox said:

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/5115906.stm

    £15m boost for children's cycling

    My school's share of the pot is £14,200 over two years.

    Well, not quite.

    I have £4,700 this year to establish cycle training for 6/7 year olds
    as part of the PE curriculum, and to continue with the on-road cycle
    training I already offer to 8 - 11 year olds.

    2007/8 I have £9,500 to continue with the training at the school and
    to establish a similar project at a neighbouring school.

    In my LA the amount of funding that has gone into National Standard
    Training is...err...

    ....nil

    John B

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  5. Julesh
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    Tony Raven said:

    Peter Fox wrote on 26/06/2006 07:08 +0100:

    Quoted message said:

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/5115906.stm

    £15m boost for children's cycling

    And the Sustrans idiot interviewed on BBC Breakfast said "Parents are
    worried about the dangers of cycling on the roads and rightly so"
    Arghhhhhhh!!! Stop doing that!!

    I doubt if it was an accident as Sustrans have their own agenda to
    follow. Perhaps they are taking lessons in statistics from BSHIT.

    Julesh

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  6. Andy Key
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    In message <[email hidden]>, John B <[email hidden]>
    writes

    Quoted message said:

    In my LA the amount of funding that has gone into National Standard
    Training is...err...

    ...nil

    Yes, but look on the bright side, John, at least it's being maintained
    at the same level as last year. :-)

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