{"id":212556,"date":"2025-10-20T06:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T06:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/212556\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T06:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T06:29:07","slug":"free-bike-lights-given-out-in-grimsby-in-hope-they-save-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/212556\/","title":{"rendered":"Free bike lights given out in Grimsby in hope they save lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Swinburn said the free service was paid for out of the government&#8217;s Active Travel Fund.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We believe it&#8217;s better to let people have free use of this facility to actually make sure their bikes are safe,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We do see a lot of people out there with no lights on their cycles, which is bad really.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Oliver Follows, the head mechanic at R-evolution, said he had a busy morning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Repairs including changing brake pads &#8220;to make sure they can actually stop accurately&#8221; and sorting out gears that &#8220;weren&#8217;t changing&#8221;. He also gave out lights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I see so many people without lights, and it&#8217;s worrying, especially if people aren&#8217;t wearing bright colours,&#8221; Mr Follows said. &#8220;The lights are the main thing. You need to be seen.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Swinburn said the free service was paid for out of the government&#8217;s Active Travel Fund. &#8220;We believe it&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-212556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}