Working in partnership with the Rosemount Development Trust, the Equality Cycles project will support five schools and up to 300 children aged 8-16 years, to encourage active travel to school through the provision of free bikes, including adaptive bikes.
This would build on the provision of existing projects which already offer adaptive bikes for disabled children and young people.Īnnouncing the pilots, Transport Minister Graeme Dey visited St Paul’s Youth Forum in the North East of Glasgow alongside Shanaze Reade, Ambassador for Children and Young People for the 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships. Transport Scotland continues to explore opportunities for both an islands project and a specific adaptive bikes pilot. Pilots are linked to existing community networks across schools, charities, cycling clubs and active travel hubs – all helping to determine what the best models of local delivery could look like.įurther pilots will be announced in the coming months. The pilots will test a variety of ownership, loan and subscription models and undertake various methods of assessing need to ensure inclusion and accessibility. The pilots seek to include local bike shops and will explore opportunities to maximise benefits for the local supply chain, including recycling bikes and encouraging a circular economy approach.
They will test delivery models in urban and rural locations, across primary and secondary schools ages and trial various procurement models.
The Scottish Government has announced the first six pilot projects selected to offer free bicycles for school age children who cannot afford one.Īs part of a series of commitments delivered by the Scottish Government within its first 100 days, the new pilots will test their approaches across the next 12 months and will be fully evaluated.
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