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Home Page >> About Us >> Products >> Rent a Locker >> How To Order >> News >> Links >> Free Pic >> Down Loads >>	Parking Review January 2001 Children rediscover the joy of cycling to school Cycling has been undergoing something of a renaissance in recent years, but while mountain biking is a popular leisure pursuit, cycling to school has become a rarity. The reasons are combination of parental concerns over road safety on routes to school combined with the lack of secure bike parking facilities to discourage theft. However, there are ways of reviving the use of bicycles among students. For example, Adrian Trim, Plymouth City Council's road safety officer discovered that no-one had cycled to Estover Community College in 30 years since it's opening. When Trim interviewed pupils he discovered that they would cycle if secure cycle parking was available. After some research, Trim discovered that his colleague, senior highways officer Phil Rosindale, had seen the prototype of a new compact cycle locker in Plymouth. Pupils from Estover College visited the Westwood Automation factory producing the BikeAway and talked to the locker's designer, Jason Hamlyn. The locker was adjusted to accommodate the student's ideas and those of Rosindale and Mike Turner, transport development manager at Sainsbury's. While the locker is compact, it has an easy to operate door and enough room to store a bike upright and cycle helmets and other gear. The first 50 BikeAway lockers were installed at Estover and cycle use rose to a point that another 46 were ordered by the city for use at Stoke Damerel Community College. This month another 44 units are being installed at Plymstock School. BikeAway units have also been adopted by the London Borough of Enfield which installed 30 for its Southgate School last year and is now preparing to take delivery of another 20 for Southgate as well as 40 for Aylward Secondary School in Edmonton, Danielle Shap, Enfield's Safe Routes to School co-ordinator says: "We originally hoped that all 30 lockers might be let out to pupils by Christmas. But after only two or three weeks so many pupils wanted to use the lockers we had to order more." Southgate's bid for council funding involved installing not just lockers but CCTV and traffic calming on the road leading to the school. "We originally aimed to increase the number of pupils cycling to school from 15 to 60," says Shap. "Now we've a waiting list of pupils who will cycle as soon as we can supply them with a locker."
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