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- Protect your home from thieves this summer
- Young builders needed for child's-size city!
- Rugby World Cup success is 'outstanding' for Twickenham
- Crofters fashion show wows guests
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- Performing on the edge
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- Car club membership rockets as residents save thousands
- Operation Lockout improves bike security
- Dodgy drivers warned over parking fraud
- Are you willing to gamble on the cocaine lottery?
- Free parking boost for businesses
- Your chance to display artwork at the Riverside Gallery
- Now it's over to Tomasz for the weather...
- London Youth Games team celebrated at the stoop
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- Royal approval for pupils' bespoke deckchairs
- Raising the flag for borough's parks
- Businesses get greener thanks to the Council
- Borough blooms under the spotlight
- Play cool in parks this summer
- A snapshot of Richmond from around the world
- Land speed record holder sets challenge for school pupils
- Bike ride promotes cycling to secondary schools
- Third runway "will not reduce stacking"
- Borough's cyclists praised for wheely great challenge result
- Cycle starter packs launched to get Richmond pedalling
- PwC to help Council improve efficiency
- Earl of Wessex reopens 'Magnificent' Terrace Gardens
- Summer of larks in borough parks
- Lazy drivers are pushing up crime - police
- Team Richmond Shines at London Youth Games
- Young people needed for youth magazine
- Council acts to tackle cigarette litter
- Top award for borough crime team
- Family entertainment in Terrace Gardens
- Council kick starts regeneration of Barn Elms
- Top awards for young artists
- Results announced for £1million youth facilities vote
- Council thanks Father Thames Trust for donations
- Demont confirmed as principal designate of proposed academy
- Great British inventing praised
- Pupils excellence celebrated
- Café sunshine opens on Twickenham Riverside
Release Date: 14/07/2009
Borough's cyclists praised for a wheely good challenge result
Dedicated cyclists at Richmond Council have clocked up a wheely great score of more than 13,600 miles in this year’s TFL Workplace Cycle Challenge, putting the team in the top 20 across London.
As well as the Council’s cyclists, 12 other teams based in Richmond upon Thames took part, riding a total of 54,151 miles in one month, the seventh most active borough in London.
The riders have been praised by Cllr David Trigg, Richmond Council’s Cabinet Member for Traffic, Travel and Parking: “This is a great sign of the Council’s staff, and those from private companies and organisations, leading by example – the teams have done incredibly well. It’s great to see they have really taken to heart our commitment to using environmentally friendly forms of transport.
“They’ve all found out that getting around by bike is quick, cheap and good for them, and hopefully a large number will now be leaving their cars at home to make the journey to work.”
The top cyclist in the Council’s team was Andrew Darvill, Assistant Director for Environment, whose brief includes the Smarter Travel programme. He clocked up more than 830 miles in a month, while Community Information Officer Claire McNicholls, who recorded more than 400 miles, was placed second.
Andrew, a member of a triathalon club, said: “I cycle a lot in training for events, I go out in the evenings and weekends, and I regularly cycle to Dorking to go on a ride with groups of friends around Surrey. You just have to get the bike out and start pedalling.”
The London-wide Workplace Cycle Challenge was launched on June 1 as a challenge to raise the number of people who used bikes to get around the capital.
Businesses and public sector organisation employees were asked to register in a team and record how many miles each member cycled every day to build up a total score for the month.
Other teams from Richmond upon Thames which competed included staff from The National Archives, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Haymarket Media Group, Tearfund, LGC Ltd, National Physical Laboratory, Royal Holloway University of London, Clear Ideas, eBay UK Ltd, Waitrose, Cyan Group Ltd, Waitrose and Harland Associates.
During the past 12 months, Richmond Council has installed more than 400 cycle stands at schools, in town centres and in parks, giving new riders more opportunity than ever to ride and leave their bikes securely.
More information about the benefits of cycling and how to combat bike crime is available online at www.smartertravelrichmond.org
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