Action 82: Improve your cycling confidence. Cycling is good for our health and our environment. There are plenty of organisations who work to encourage and promote cycling, with practical support and through campaigns.
https://www.bikeisbest.com/article-search#Lump4298
https://www.sustrans.org.uk/ https://www.lcc.org.uk/
https://wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk/ This latter promotes cycling for those with disabilities.
Action 54: Give your bike a thorough service so it is ready for the colder months ahead. Or book it in with a bike shop for a service.
With warm and water proof clothing you can enjoy cycling throughout the months ahead. Sustrans offers advice and tips on cycling and its benefits – https://www.sustrans.org.uk/our-blog/get-active/2020/everyday-walking-and-cycling/how-to-cycle-in-the-rain-look-after-your-bike-and-keep-yourself-dry/
Action 40: Check out high visibility clothing. With schools terms starting and the evenings drawing in, it is a good time to think about staying visible as both pedestrians and cyclists when it is dark. After dark even light coloured clothes do not make the wearer clearly visible to other road users. Fluorescent markers on bags and coats, cycles, helmets, wrists and ankles are all good options.
New! Starting a from tomorrow and everyday during creationtide (1st September – 4th October) I will be posting a picture of something from the natural world to encourage us to ‘fall in love again with creation’. These will feature under the new heading added to the menu ‘Falling in Love’
Action 19: Give your car a holiday. Where you might go by car, try different options.
Walk or cycle. Enjoy the fresh air and the exercise.
Take the bus or the train. When you’re not driving, you can enjoy taking in the view, or have the time to read.
If you have time, you might make the journey into an adventure or plan a scenic route.
Action 13: Become active with ‘active travel’. Active travel is using personal physical exertion. It includes walking, cycling, and wheeling ( propelling a wheelchair) and can equally include scootering, roller skating, skate boarding and I guess even riding a horse. It is about getting from A to B – to the shops, school, railway station, gym etc – rather than a leisure activity such as going for a walk.
Active travel is good for the environment as it reduces car journeys and hence carbon emissions and emissions of poisonous gases and small particulates that cause airs pollution.
Active travel is good for health, keeping us fit and active. It is estimated that 42% women and 34% men do not achieve recommended levels of physical activity. The resulting poor health costs the NHS £1 billion a year.
Active travel reduces road congestion on both main roads and local streets.
See how many journeys you can make this week using active travel.
Active Travel
Active travel is getting from A to B using our own person power – be that
pedalling a cycle, wheeling a chair, pushing a scooter or simply putting one foot in front of the other. It gets us from home to school/the shops/ the gym/ the railway station … and back. It keeps us fit and it keeps our environment fit – free from air pollution, congestion and carbon emissions.
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