Plans unveiled for Inverness cycle park
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PLANS have been unveiled for a children’s cycling proficiency park at a prime spot in Inverness.
A 400 square-yard zone will be laid out with miniature roads with junctions, crossroads and roundabouts, complete with stop signs, zebra crossings and warning signs if the proposals are accepted.
The Inverness Culloden Rotary Club is eyeing up the Torvean Golf Club site in Glenurquhart Road.
And members are ready to roll their sleeves up to do some fundraising and say they know the best funding pots to dip into in order to whip up the £90,000 building costs.
Inspired by a similar scheme operating in Dunfermline, club member Duncan MacDonald said it could improve road safety.
He said: “Parents can take their children there and teach them the meaning of the warning signs, how to approach road junctions, roundabouts and zebra crossings, how to take care when there are hazards on the roads and how to cycle safely in traffic.
“It will be an excellent training ground for safe cycling before the children transfer onto a real road system and it will contribute enormously to road safety by making the users more aware of road dangers and handing them with confidence.”
He added: “Inverness Culloden Rotary Club is willing to fundraise, in part or in total, for the cost of the project so we ask that people please give their support to this proposal.”
The rotary club has fed the suggestion into a public consultation exercise launched by Highland Council to gather ideas for leisure and community facilities in the Torvean area.
Approval may be granted to the cycle track as part of the council’s planning application process.
