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Burnley to fund more bike paths

Money to be spent creating new routes and extending existing ones
by John Stevenson
Mon, Jun 18, 2012 14:18
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Good news for the people of Burnley - an extra £150,000 is being invested in cycle infrastructure to make sure that students and workers can get safely around town.

This is Lancashire reports that four key schemes will receive council cash. 

£25,0000 will be spent on providing a link across Pollard Moor, from the Burnley Bridge Business Park, to Manchester Road in Hapton.

The council also plans to spend £56,000 to extend routes from the Padiham Greenway to Simonstone and Altham.

Other initiatives would include £40,000 allocated to upgrading a footpath from Shuttleworth Mead to Higham, making it usable by both riders and walkers.

The remaining money will be earmarked for minor improvements such as providing guard rails and barriers along parts of various pathways.

Coun Shah Hussain, the council’s executive member for community services, said: “By creating a network of safe, off-road routes we are making it safer and easier for people to use pedal power to get to and from work, or just as a leisure activity.”

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John Stevenson

John has been writing about bikes and cycling for over 30 years since discovering that people were mug enough to pay him for it rather than expecting him to do an honest day's work.

He was heavily involved in the mountain bike boom of the late 1980s as a racer, team manager and race promoter, and that led to writing for Mountain Biking UK magazine shortly after its inception. He got the gig by phoning up the editor and telling him the magazine was rubbish and he could do better. Rather than telling him to get lost, MBUK editor Tym Manley called John’s bluff and the rest is history.

Since then he has worked on MTB Pro magazine and was editor of Maximum Mountain Bike and Australian Mountain Bike magazines, before switching to the web in 2000 to work for CyclingNews.com. Along with road.cc founder Tony Farrelly, John was on the launch team for BikeRadar.com and subsequently became editor in chief of Future Publishing’s group of cycling magazines and websites, including Cycling Plus, MBUK, What Mountain Bike and Procycling.

John has also written for Cyclist magazine, edited the BikeMagic website and was founding editor of TotalWomensCycling.com before handing over to someone far more representative of the site's main audience.

He joined road.cc in 2013. He lives in Cambridge where the lack of hills is more than made up for by the headwinds.

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