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Flax Bourton Primary School will be saddling up and stepping out to enjoy a walk to school along the Flax Bourton Greenway to celebrate the opening of their new bike shed and the start of a cycling revolution as Sustrans, Bristol and North Somerset County.

Sustrans’ Connect2 Day is a celebration of the ambitious project to revitalise walking and cycling in 79 communities across the UK. The project has been made possible by the enormous popular support for Sustrans' Connect2 - funded by a £50million Big Lottery Fund grant after the UK public voted the scheme the winner of the People's Millions Lottery contest in December 2007.

Through Connect2, crossings and bridges are being created over busy roads, railway lines and rivers, linking into new networks of local paths to get people where they want to go by foot or bike without having to go the long way round or compete with lots of traffic. All across the country this month, people are celebrating how their Connect2 scheme will change their world by making walking and cycling the obvious choice for the local journeys we all make every day. In Flax Bourton, pupils will be cycling to school on Friday 3rd July to get a free breakfast, courtesy of Tesco, and to celebrate the opening of their brand new bike shelter for Connect2 day. Pupils and parents will also get the chance to find out more about the new walking and cycling route which will link Nailsea and Backwell to Bristol with a series of new traffic-free paths linking via Ashton Court.

Sustrans Regional Director Adrian Roper said: “I’m delighted that local families are choosing to join in to help us celebrate Connect2 day by walking along the Flax Bourton Greenway to school. This path is already well used by the local community for walking, cycling or jogging and means that school children no longer need to use the busy B3130 to travel between Nailsea and Long Ashton or their school.”

Published on 01st Jul 2009