A big achievement

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Those kids across the pond know what it’s all about:

A scheme to build a national network of cycle and walking routes has won a £50m lottery grant by topping a public vote.

Source: news.bbc.co.uk

A national network of cycle and walking routes. Can you imagine?

Sustrans: Connect2, which aims to improve travel in 79 communities, beat three other environmental groups with 42% of all ballots cast.

..Sustrans CEO and founder John Grimshaw said: “The hard work starts now to build those bridges, tunnels, crossings and networks of paths.”

Right on.

About big jonny

The man, the legend. The guy who started it all back in the Year of Our Lord Beer, 2000, with a couple of pages worth of idiotic ranting hardcoded on some random porn site that would host anything you uploaded, a book called HTML for Dummies (which was completely appropriate), a bad attitude (which hasn’t much changed), and a Dell desktop running Win95 with 64 mgs of ram and a six gig hard drive. Those were the days. Then he went to law school. Go figure. Flagstaff, Arizona, USA

2 Replies to “A big achievement”

  2. wow — this is very promising. I have yet to bike in England as the roads are narrow and I haven’t found any good bike routes around where I live. I’m also kind of a wimp when it comes to cold weather…