Southwark Local - 25th June 1999

The chain gang!
 

KIDS saddled up for an alternative school reunion to encourage pedal power. Pupils from Victory School, in Victory Place, Walworth, cycled over to Townsend Street to pick up Townsend School chums and then on to English Martyrs in Flint Street, for a final cycle down Thurlow Street and Portland Street together. The Walworth Reunion Ride on Wednesday last week was part of National Bike Week and was organised by Cycle Training, a Peckham company which provides professional on-road cycle training across London.

The Southwark-based LITMUS project surveyed the children's travel patterns to school at the same time as a basis for future "safer routes to school" projects. Southwark Council hopes the project will make way for sustainable transport education for all the area's children, including practical cycle training. Ian Martin of the council's health promotion unit, which commissioned the idea, said, "The importance of cycling is immense.
"It is an excellent form of exercise, as well as an environmentally friendly method of transport, so encouraging children and young people to see it as a viable and enjoyable way of getting around is essential."

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