{"id":789100,"date":"2026-10-02T00:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T00:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/789100\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T00:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T00:34:09","slug":"olympian-chris-boardman-opens-barrow-cycle-lane-and-footpath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/789100\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympian Chris Boardman opens Barrow cycle lane and footpath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A new cycle path and walkway through the centre of a town will encourage people to &#8220;live and linger&#8221; in the area, an Olympic champion has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chris Boardman, who won gold in Barcelona in 1992 and is now national active travel commissioner for Active Travel England, joined celebrations marking the launch of the Abbey Road route in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 2.5-mile (4km) route runs from Ramsden Square to the junction of Park Drive linking the town centre with workplaces and colleges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Boardman said: &#8220;Barrow is just an amazing place with such assets that frankly I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s utilised yet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alongside the recently completed North Walney route, paths connect residential areas with BAE Systems, Furness General Hospital, the new University of Cumbria campus, Furness College and the town centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Westmorland and Furness councillor Adrian Waite claimed the cycle paths and walkways would &#8220;help to ease traffic pressures&#8221; around Barrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new cycle path and walkway through the centre of a town will encourage people to &#8220;live and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-789100","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\/789100","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=789100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}