On track for cycle routes
LIFESTYLE: Flashback to when Rory Kershaw and Ben Lapish cycled from Rawcliffe to Pollington as part of their Lifestyle project in the summer with Councillors Caroline Fox and John Barrett. (BUY THIS PHOTO L7611TS) Picture: Tony Saxton
AN exciting scheme to cover the Goole area in cycle tracks has been launched by the area’s MP Andrew Percy and enterprising councillor John Barrett.
East Riding of Yorkshire Councillor Barrett said he was prompted to launch a fund-raising and awareness drive for cycling routes after two Goole youngsters Rory Kershaw and Ben Lapish, both 11 and students at Snaith School, cycled canal routes in the area as part of their summer Lifestyle project when they were pupils at Rawcliffe Primary School.
During a meeting at the Waterways Museum in Goole last Friday, Mr Percy officially agreed to become patron of the scheme to get cycle tracks built in the area and pledged, along with others, to support the museum’s bid for grant aid for the project.
Coun Barrett said: “The two youngsters who initiated this project compiled a report about the lack of cycling routes in the area and this was used as the driving force behind this launch. It’s great that the Waterways Museum, MP Andrew Percy and others have come on board.
“We need funding for this scheme and we are in the process of contacting the Canal and Waterways Trust, East Riding of Yorkshire Council, Yorkshire Wildlife Trust and a number of others to secure money.”
He said the working group formed on Friday was hoping to eventually cover the area in cycle tracks, linking in with the Trans Pennine track at Cowick, taking in Airmyn, Rawcliffe, Snaith, Pollington and even as far as Selby, eventually, but the group had a lot of hard work ahead.
He added: “The full track would also hopefully include routes past Oakhill Pond nature reserve, Sugar Mill Ponds at Rawcliffe and close to Beaver Sailing Club at Cowick. Once a strategy is agreed, and if we get adequate funding, it will be up to East Riding of Yorkshire Council to help join all tracks together. These are exciting times.”
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Thursday 23 May 2013
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