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Tuesday, 28 July 2020

BBC News

• 'Fix your bike' vouchers launch, as doctors to prescribe bikes on NHSThe prime minister says GPs in areas with poor health will be encouraged to prescribe cycling.

The Guardian

• Residents to get new decision-making powers in cycling 'revolution'Measures include watchdog to ensure quality and safety of walking and cycling routesCycling ambitions for England move up a gear with No 10 plansResidents will get powers to banish through-traffic from local streets and councils will be prevented from building substandard cycle lanes under what Downing Street has billed as a revolution for cycling and walking in England.The plans will see the creation of a watchdog to ensure new cycle and walking routes are up to standard, intended to act as a transport equivalent of the schools inspectorate, Ofsted. Continue reading...

The Independent

• Boris Johnson pledges cycle lessons for everyone and thousands of miles of new bike lanesProjects consisting 'mostly of paint' will not get funding, ministers say

Times Online

• Taxpayer-funded electric bikes to get more cyclists on roads [Subscription]Electric bikes will be cheaper under a new subsidy to encourage older people and commuters to get out on the road.

Mail Online

• Doctors to prescribe bicycles as part of £2billion drive to tackle obesityBicycles will be prescribed by doctors for patients and all Britons will be offered free training on how to ride in a £2billion drive to get fat Britain 'on its bike'.

The Mirror

• Cyclists to be handed £50 vouchers to fix bikes in Government cycling driveBoris Johnson will announces plans to boost cycling as part of efforts to get Brits to slim down to reduce their risk of coronavirus

Sky News

• Cyclists to get bike repair vouchers under anti-obesity strategyCycling fanatic Boris Johnson is promising £50 repair vouchers as part of his coronavirus crusade to persuade people to get on their bike.

Bradford Telegraph & Argus

• Andrew Stephenson says 'active travel' key focus of plansTHE Transport Minister has explained
• ‘Increase cycling by 2,000 per cent to tackle climate emergency' AMBITIOUS plans of how West Yorkshire can tackle climate change include increasing the amount of bike journeys by 2,000 per cent in the next 18 years.

London Evening Standard

• Doctors to prescribe bikes on NHS under plan to boost active travelBicycles are to be made available on the NHS as part of the Government's

Newcastle Evening Chronicle

• Free £50 bike repair scheme launches and here's how to make a claimHalfords teams up on Government's new Fix Your Bike Voucher Scheme and explains how it will operate

Other News Sources

• Brighton seafront parking to make way for bike lane PARKING spaces along the seafront will make way for bike lanes as part of a new wave of car bans and cycleways.