Harrogate Hospital begin to cuddle cyclists

A good meeting today with Liz Pugh from Harrogate Hospital Trust. We had a chat about what we could do to help each other get more staff from the hospital cycling. Oh I and I had a mild dig at their relatively unambitious travel plan for cyclists. Here's what we came up with.

• We will work together to make a leaflet to promote cycling to hospital staff. It will contain info about routes, clubs, the cycle to work scheme and other cycling related info.
• We will have some staff members who are points of contact if people who are thinking about cycling to work. This  so that they have someone they can have a chat with if they have an issues that might be putting them off.
• We will do a joint presentation/open day style event to try and promote the cycle to work scheme and increase take up.
• The Hospital will investigate if they can make some suggested improvements to on site cycle storage and lighting.
• The Hospital will give their support to our campaign to improve cycle infrastructure on the Knaresborough Rd. Makes sense they are at one end of it

I have been fairly critical over the last sixth months of the hospital's spectacular  reluctance do to anything tangible to promote cycling. Now they are working with both us and Jo Armstrong from Harrogate Borough Council its  time to lay off them a bit and see if together we can get some staff from Harrogate's biggest employer pedalling.