The Bike It project has achieved cycling levels five times the nationalaverage in participating schools - bucking the overall national trend ofdeclining numbers of children cycling to school.
Some 40 schools taking part in the scheme registered an average of 10per cent of children cycling to school, compared with the nationalaverage of fewer than two per cent.
At Holy Trinity Primary School in South Gloucestershire, some 37 percent of pupils cycled in on a regular basis. Meanwhile, at OatlandsJunior School in Harrogate, the figure was as high as 60 per cent ofchildren.
Paul Osborne, safe routes to school director at Sustrans, said: "Itproves this holistic approach of encouraging children to cycle to schoolreally works."
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