http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: “Cycle-rail projects in Scotland to get £400k boost” en Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:41:29 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18695#post-278873 Wed, 28 Mar 2018 15:07:37 +0000 rider73 278873@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>its the 50% match funding thats usually the problem in these cases - the councils very rarely want to even put that up, and thats 100,000 a year for 4 years - considering the cost of doing anything via council/government , it will probably be an extra hoop in one station somewhere. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18695#post-278857 Wed, 28 Mar 2018 14:03:14 +0000 chdot 278857@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>“The £400,000 Cycling Fund will allow us to continue this investment by delivering our vision of a seamless ‘doorstep to destination’ journey for customers. We are encouraging councils and local community groups to take advantage of this great opportunity.”</p> <p>While pledging to improve bike facilities at stations, ScotRail also looks set to halve bike storage capacity on long distance services. Currently four bikes are allowed on each train, but once the operator rolls out its new high speed train (HST) fleet this will drop to two. The rail operator is considering storage for six further bikes in the two power cars at each end of the train. This would bring the total bike capacity on each train to eight, still way below the 20 spaces Abellio had previously indicated in talks with the Scottish government in 2015.</p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://www.transportxtra.com/publications/local-transport-today/news/56382/cycle-rail-projects-in-scotland-to-get-400k-boost/" rel="nofollow">https://www.transportxtra.com/publications/local-transport-today/news/56382/cycle-rail-projects-in-scotland-to-get-400k-boost/</a> </p>