BIKEABILITY TRAINING WOULD BE USEFUL FOR YOUNG BRIGG CYCLISTS

Brigg could certainly benefit from Bikeability.
Lincolnshire County Council, whose border touch Bigby High Road and Westrum Lane, is working with the Bikeability initiative to offer free courses this summer to help 11 to 16 year-olds "learn vital skills, helping them to keep safe while cycling on the road."
A cycling officer from Bikeability rightly says: "The summer holidays are a great time to get out exploring on your bike, but it's important to have the skills to be confident on the road."
Could North Lincolnshire Council - the highway authority for our area -  operate something similar with Bikeability in Brigg?
We received a Twitter alert today from Lincolnshire County Council which said: "Free Bikeability training will help your child be aware of how to cycle in busy traffic."
Brigg is fortunate to have some praiseworthy cycle lanes provided by North Lincolnshire Council, notably between the town and Wrawby, which means that youngsters can keep off the busy A18 and use a marked-off section of the footpath instead. But children still have to cycle on many other streets in our town.
Roads are a good deal busier in 2016 than they were in the late 1960s when we did cycling proficiency training with Brigg police in the playground at Glebe Road School. And that's despite the fact that we had no M180 in those days and the A18 came straight through Brigg town centre, prior to pedestrianisation.
Read about Lincolnshire County Council's Bikeability courses through this link...