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"'Bike bus' to connect tourist hotspots
STEPHEN PULLINGER
January 31, 2003 08:50
Tourism in the Broads is to be boosted by a new 'bike-bus' connecting main visitor attractions.
The service, called the Broads Hopper, will run from Blickling to Reedham via Aylsham, Wroxham, Acle
and Martham.
A 20-seat mini-bus will run along the route pulling a trailer capable of carrying 10 bikes.
Norfolk County Council learned yesterday that its bid to the Department of Transport for £473,000
of funding had been successful.
The grant is part of a £20m allocation announced by the Government in the fifth round of its Rural
Bus Challenge, a scheme to improve transport in the countryside.
Ian Hydes, from the council's passenger transport network, said: "The idea for the scheme came from
the council-subsidised Coast Hopper service from King's Lynn and Hunstanton to Cromer.
"That has built up and proved a tremendous success both with tourists and people travelling to work
in the villages."
Mr Hydes said the Broads Hopper would also serve both markets, and the bike-carrying facility would
be especially helpful to tourists.
The service – probably not starting until next year – would run at least three times a day in
both directions, seven days a week in the summer and six days a week in winter.
The idea is to link major tourist attractions, including Blickling Hall, the Bure Valley Railway,
Wroxham Barns, Fairhaven Gardens, South Walsham, Thrigby Hall Wildlife Gardens and Pettits Animal
Adventure Park.
The county will also receive around £390,000 from Rural Bus Challenge to improve bus services in
the Fenland area.
An interchange will be provided at Three Holes supporting a new cross-country route across the
border between Norfolk and Cambridgeshire.
The service, also scheduled to begin next year, will link Downham Market with March in
Cambridgeshire by linking into existing services to Wisbech.
Part of the grant will be spent on 36 improved bus stops and 18 new shelters.
Suffolk County Council has secured £190,000 to set up a rural car scheme, using a network of
volunteer drivers and servicing villages that have one bus a day or less. The aim is that people in
such villages will be able to book a car journey for the same price as a bus."
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Cheers, helen s
"'Bike bus' to connect tourist hotspots
STEPHEN PULLINGER
January 31, 2003 08:50
Tourism in the Broads is to be boosted by a new 'bike-bus' connecting main visitor attractions.
The service, called the Broads Hopper, will run from Blickling to Reedham via Aylsham, Wroxham, Acle
and Martham.
A 20-seat mini-bus will run along the route pulling a trailer capable of carrying 10 bikes.
Norfolk County Council learned yesterday that its bid to the Department of Transport for £473,000
of funding had been successful.
The grant is part of a £20m allocation announced by the Government in the fifth round of its Rural
Bus Challenge, a scheme to improve transport in the countryside.
Ian Hydes, from the council's passenger transport network, said: "The idea for the scheme came from
the council-subsidised Coast Hopper service from King's Lynn and Hunstanton to Cromer.
"That has built up and proved a tremendous success both with tourists and people travelling to work
in the villages."
Mr Hydes said the Broads Hopper would also serve both markets, and the bike-carrying facility would
be especially helpful to tourists.
The service – probably not starting until next year – would run at least three times a day in
both directions, seven days a week in the summer and six days a week in winter.
The idea is to link major tourist attractions, including Blickling Hall, the Bure Valley Railway,
Wroxham Barns, Fairhaven Gardens, South Walsham, Thrigby Hall Wildlife Gardens and Pettits Animal
Adventure Park.
The county will also receive around £390,000 from Rural Bus Challenge to improve bus services in
the Fenland area.
An interchange will be provided at Three Holes supporting a new cross-country route across the
border between Norfolk and Cambridgeshire.
The service, also scheduled to begin next year, will link Downham Market with March in
Cambridgeshire by linking into existing services to Wisbech.
Part of the grant will be spent on 36 improved bus stops and 18 new shelters.
Suffolk County Council has secured £190,000 to set up a rural car scheme, using a network of
volunteer drivers and servicing villages that have one bus a day or less. The aim is that people in
such villages will be able to book a car journey for the same price as a bus."
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Flush out that intestinal parasite and/or the waste product before sending a reply!
Any speeliong mistake$ aR the resiult of my cats sitting on the keyboaRRRDdd
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