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With the existing bike shelters often full, there are plans to put up more in North Beach.
Traffic and Highways Services has applied for planning permission to install an additional bicycle shelter and hoops to the southern boundary of the car park.
There is already a bike shelter and hoops along that wall but they are often full, particularly when the weather is good encouraging more people to cycle to town for work or leisure purposes.
The plans fit with the wider aim of encouraging more of us to use active travel to get around the island.
As well as the existing bike parking to the southern side of North Beach there is a moveable bike rack near the Pétanque courts to the northern side of North Beach, along with bike shelters on the Crown and Albert piers and hoops at the Sunken Gardens, along with a moveable bike rack also at the top of Smith Street.
There are other bicycle hoops around the central town area as well as across the island.
Earlier this week, local charity The Better Journey Project released the results of its work monitoring traffic volumes over the last two years.
The charity has found there is a 15% drop during school holidays. It says that could be extended to the rest of the year with some changes made by motorists.
“Our detailed traffic monitoring confirms that our commuting habits are very consistent whatever the season, but a 15% reduction in overall traffic volume would be relatively easy to achieve through a small uplift in active travel, bus use and lift sharing,” said Barrie Duerden, a member of the Project.
“This would make the traffic so much better for those who need to drive such as islanders with disabilities, taxis, buses, the emergency services and commercial vehicles.”
Some businesses which are based outside of the main centre of St Peter Port already actively incentivise staff to leave their cars at home.
Matt Collas, the Travel Plan Coordinator for Admiral Park Plaza said: “With new office buildings coming on stream soon at Admiral Park, the landlords and tenants here are keen to minimise congestion, so encouraging management and staff to consider walking, cycling, using the bus and lift sharing is important. If firms incentivise staff to use these ways to get to and from work and make it easy for them, then everybody wins.”
The Health Improvement Commission is "a charity with a mission to empower, enable and encourage healthy living in Guernsey and Alderney" and one of its aims is to encourage walking and cycling short journeys for work or other everyday journeys.
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