Author: News Team 1

The Department for Transport (DfT) is conducting a national consultation, closing date 30 January 2025, to which Pinner Association members and other may wish to give individual responses (the tight deadline for responses makes it not feasible for the Association to collect and collate a combined response from our members).

The Department for Transport is developing a strategy which will set the high-level direction for how transport should be designed, built and operated in England over the next 10 years.

It will set out a single national vision which will put people who use transport and their needs at its heart and empower local leaders to deliver integrated transport solutions that meet the needs of their local communities.

To help us create the strategy, we are now asking people:

• • about their experience of transport in England
  • what we could do to make it better

We want to hear from:

• • people who use any form of transport, including cars, vans, motorbikes, mopeds, trains, underground, metro, trams, buses, minibuses, coaches, bikes, e-bikes, walking or wheeling
  • frontline transport workers – people who work in the transport industry
  • companies and organisations that operate in the transport sector

Responses to this call for ideas will be considered in the drafting of the Integrated National Transport Strategy.

Here is the link to the DfT webpage for the consultation documents and how to submit a response:

https://www.gov.uk/government/calls-for-evidence/integrated-national-transport-strategy-a-call-for-ideas/integrated-national-transport-strategy-a-call-for-ideas

Happy Chanukah to all of you celebrating.

Way back in May, Harrow Cycle Hub approached us for a donation towards a new towards a specially adapted Fun2Go bike. We pledged £1000 towards the cost of the bike. After much fund-raising Harrow Cycle Hub reached their target and recently took delivery of the new side by side tandem that has been specially adapted.

Harrow Cycle Hub are a charity that run ‘Wheels for All’ sessions for people who would normally not be able to cycle or find two wheels hard. They run these sessions on Tuesday and Saturday mornings.

Yesterday our past Chair Julie went down to see it in action, naturally she couldn’t resist having a go. Julie took the opportunity to speak to some of the parents whose youngster attend these sessions. As well as getting them out exercising, being able to cycle on their own, has increased the confidence of the riders. For some of the youngsters, it’s something that they look forward to on a weekly basis.

Harrow Cycle Hub also runs ‘Learn to Ride’ and ‘Confidence Builder’ courses on two-wheelers, cycle maintenance courses, led rides and more. Sign up to their newsletter to keep in touch:

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If you are interested to know more. Visit their website, Facebook, X or Instagram pages.

Thank you to everyone who attended today’s service.  This is part of what make Pinner special.

The organisers couldn’t do this without the help of the volunteers, so thank you to everyone that helped.

Thank you to our sponsors who help make it happen.

• Bride Avenue
• Cafe Amici
• Daisy & Co
• Queens Head
• Robsons Pinner