Transition University St Andrews in collaboration with Fife Council and community
groups to celebrate walking wheeling.
Transition University St Andrews has joined partners with Fife Council and community groups such as St Andrews Space for Cycling and The Active Way St Andrews for St Andrews’ first walking and
wheeling festival. The one day celebration of active travel, called Living the Active Way, will be held
on November 10th from 12 noon to 4pm in Church Square to coincide with global climate summit
COP26’s Transport Day.
The event, to be held in St Andrews Church Square, will showcase every type of cycle, from cargo bikes and e bikes to adaptive cycles for people with mobility issues, alongside free cycle maintenance, guided walks and presentations and stalls from experts on air quality and new forms of technology which support active travel.
Transition University St Andrews Project Manager, Alistair MacLeod, said: “This event aims to focus
the minds of those in St Andrews on the issues which Transition University St Andrews tackles locally and are being discussed as part of the global talks going on in Glasgow for COP26. Issues such as cleaner air and safer places to walk and cycle can all be worked on by community groups and local businesses in collaboration with Fife Council to improve the environment for everyone.”
Fife Councillor Ross Vettraino, Convenor of the Environment and Protective Services sub-Committee, supports the event said: “I am delighted the council can support grass roots events such as Living The Active Way in St Andrews on the 10th November. During the global conference COP26 and beyond we should be making every day journeys more actively, reducing carbon and improving air quality and our health. I also hope the event will encourage businesses to consider more active travel option for ‘last mile’ deliveries locally.”
‘Last mile delivery’ is another focus of the event which aims to support small business to make and
receive deliveries by cargo bike either pedal- powered or electric assisted. Transition University St
Andrews currently uses an e cargo bike to make deliveries for the local food project The Tree and
other projects such as their free bike repair scheme Bike Pool. There will be a range of cargo bikes for local businesses as well as the public to try out on the day alongside e bikes, and adaptive cycles.
Adaptive cycles are cycles that can be used by people with a diverse range of mobility and other issues.
A project which Transition University St Andrews recently ran for six weeks involved the use of cycles such as ‘hand crank cycles that don’t require the use of your legs or side by side cycles, where a passenger with very little mobility can experience cycling while a parent or carer does the work.
During the day long festival there will be a free bike fix it session by Bike Pool, led walks, led bike rides and stalls run by Fife Councils Air Quality expert, St Andrews Space for Cycling, Transition University St Andrews.
To find out more got to University St Andrews website
Transition University of St Andrews
Since 2009, Transition UStA has been a hub for sustainability across the town. It aims to create a more climate resilient St Andrews and support people in their journeys to low-carbon living. Spanning the themes of Smarter Travel, Sharing, Repair & Reuse, Local Food, Climate Know-How & Action and Green Spaces & Wildlife. Transition UStA belongs to the wider Transition Network, which see communities as the starting point for reimagining and rebuilding the world to be sustainable, healthy and just.
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