{"id":387719,"date":"2026-01-24T09:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T09:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/387719\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T09:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T09:33:08","slug":"british-cycling-seeks-30m-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/387719\/","title":{"rendered":"British Cycling seeks \u00a330m investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Several other London projects have received funding, including Core Arts in Hackney (\u00a327,000), Herne Hill Velodrome (\u00a311,420) and Brixton BMX Track (\u00a315,000).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">British Cycling, which runs the scheme with Sport England and DCMS, says a further \u00a330m would allow the creation of 250 new community cycling spaces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Clancy, a former Team GB Olympian, said accessible facilities were essential in a busy city where many beginners may be reluctant to ride on the road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s really important that people have a safe and accessible place to ride,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If beginner cyclists, children in particular, are not confident and able to go out on to the roads, they need places to get on the bikes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I appreciate there&#8217;s always asks for budget and money from the government, but it seems to be money well spent and there is a 1 to 6.5 return on investment.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several other London projects have received funding, including Core Arts in Hackney (\u00a327,000), Herne Hill Velodrome (\u00a311,420) and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-387719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387719","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=387719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}