The Bike ‘n’ Ride project promotes sustainable travel for commuters and students by encouraging bike-train-bike journeys.
Bikes
Virgin Trains will be one of the first flagship Bike ‘n’ Ride train companies in the country following a £1 million funding deal with the Department for Transport through its Cycling England campaign . More than 500 additional cycle parking spaces are to be shared between Stafford, Stoke-on-Trent, Macclesfield, Stockport and Manchester Piccadilly train stations. Virgin Trains will also be supporting Manchester in its development of a cycle hire scheme that will allow commuters working in the city to complete their journeys by bike. At Stoke-on-Trent station, where an old bookshop is being converted into secure cycle storage, Virgin Trains is working closely with the local council on a scheme to encourage passengers to travel to and from the station by sustainable modes of transport.
Railway stations
Throughout the rail network, Virgin Trains aims to increase the number of people arriving at stations by bus, bike or on foot, by focusing on the development of an integrated transport system. It is taking practical action, such as:
• integrating train timetables with bus services • publishing walking routes
• promoting the use of cycling by improving cycle parking and trialling cycle hire schemes where possible.
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Give way to traffic on
major road
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Virgin Trains has also started work on its stations:
• completing energy surveys at all of its 17 Virgin-managed stations so that it knows where to focus to achieve maximum carbon reductions
• improving controls on lighting and boiler systems to increase efficiency
• setting a target to reduce stations’ carbon footprints by 4% by the end of its current franchise (March 2012)
• looking into generating its own energy from wind turbines in its multi-storey car parks.
Waste
Signs giving orders
Waste is an issue both onboard trains and in stations. Newspapers and magazines account for the largest part of onboard waste by far, so this is Virgin Trains’ initial focus. It is segregating and recycling newspapers and magazines on services that terminate at a number of major stations . There is also the potential to expand this to other materials such as plastics and metals.
Signs with red circles are mostly prohibit Plates below signs qualify their message
Train stations are allocated to different train operators to run (this allocation is based on a line of route and principal user concept). That is why Virgin Trains has many of the stations north of Rugby, where it is the main service provider.
End of 20 mph zone Entry to 20 mph zone
Maximum speed
No cycling
Virgin Trains target: It aims to reduce its ‘
business as usual’ emissions by
17,000 tonnes CO2 a year between now and the end of the franchise in 2012.
No towed caravans
No vehicles carrying
explosives
No vehicle or combination of
vehicles over length shown
Virgin Trains has committed to ensuring that 100% of the newspapers and magazines on services terminating at its major stations can be recycled.
No right turn
Give priority to vehicles from opposite direction
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No vehicles except bicycles being pushed
No motor vehicles
No left turn
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