A learn-to-ride facility is part of a series of new cycling provisions to be installed across Liverpool this year.
The local authority is to pump hundreds of thousands of pounds into transforming an underused concrete amphitheatre into the city’s first purpose-built children's learn-to-ride facility. The £330,000 “Mini-Roads” scheme will include a new cycle track situated in Everton Park, which has been designed to imitate a realistic road layout, with junctions and crossings.
Funded by both Liverpool Council, using Section 106 monies, and British Cycling, via its Places to Ride scheme, the half a kilometre long facility aims to attract and encourage thousands of youngsters to start pedalling. Highways contractor Dowhigh Ltd has been appointed to the project, which as well as new surface works, will include the installation of railings, tables and benches, asphalt and soft-play surfacing to provide an all-year round community asset.
