{"id":487612,"date":"2026-03-21T12:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T12:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/487612\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T12:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T12:35:08","slug":"cycle-routes-launched-for-people-to-explore-blaby-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/487612\/","title":{"rendered":"Cycle routes launched for people to explore Blaby district"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Blaby route takes riders along Great Central Way and the Guthlaxton Trail to the end point of Bouskell Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Leicester route also begins on Great Central Way taking riders through Aylestone Meadows, Bede Park, and then into the city centre where it ends in Horsefair Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The authority said the project was funded by a Legacy Grant from Leicestershire County Council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The grants aim to help local organisations and community groups launch travel and transport initiatives for the benefit of residents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Marc Greenwood, Blaby District Council director for place, said: &#8220;We are proud of the many varied attractions we have in the district and are always keen to shout about them and encourage visitors, whether that&#8217;s from near or far.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;However, given the challenges of climate change and wanting to improve the health and wellbeing of our residents we are also keen to promote sustainable and active forms of travel.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Blaby route takes riders along Great Central Way and the Guthlaxton Trail to the end point of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-487612","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\/487612","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=487612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}