College bids to boost cycling.STUDENTS in the Tees Valley The Tees Valley is an area the North East of England. It can be described as "greater Teesside" and consists of the four unitary authorities created by the breakup of the County of Cleveland in 1996: Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar & Cleveland, and Stockton-On-Tees along with are being encouraged to get on their bikes. Darlington College  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . has been equipped with 30 cycle bins, allowing learners to store their bikes safely at the Haughton Road campus. The campus already had cycle hoops for students wanting to lock their bikes up outside the building, near the car park which is patrolled by security staff. But this latest development, completed with the aid of an pounds 18,000 grant from Darlington Council, means more students can now choose the healthy option of cycling to and from college. New CCTV CCTV abbr. closed-circuit television CCTV closed-circuit television security cameras have also been installed to monitor the entire cycle parking area. College estates manager Mick Gossage said: "With the cycle bins people can lock their bikes away in their own individual spaces and this is in addition to the facilities we already have for cyclists. "Hopefully as a result of this investment we will see more students deciding to cycle into college." |
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