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Connect2 - Connecting Communities
Start voting online on Monday 26th November 2007 for a new Shoreham footbridge
Voting online starts today, Monday 26 November, for Sustrans’ Connect2 to win the peoples £50 million Big Lottery Fund. A vote for Connect2 is a vote for £750,000 towards a new footbridge in Shoreham.
For more information see : www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/ prog_the_peoples_50_million.htm
79 communities around the UK including the Shoreham footbridge would benefit from the sustainable transport charity winning the £50 million grant. Connect2 would build bridges, foot and cycle paths, and even reinstate a ferry giving people easier and healthier access to their schools, workplaces, shops parks and countryside.
Each of the bids will be highlighted in programmes on ITV1 in the week commencing 3 December. Sustrans’ Connect2 will be featured on 4 December. Telephone voting starts on 7 December and closes on 10 December. The winner will be announced on Wednesday 12 December.
Connect2 is competing with three other organisations to win lottery millions. These are the Eden Project, Sherwood Forest and the Black Country Urban Park.
To find out more about the Sustran’s Connect2 bid look on www.sustransconnect2.org.uk
Renewing the narrow Shoreham footbridge, improving the pedestrian/cycle connections from the beach to the town centre, Shoreham Station and other local destinations including schools is the local Connect2 scheme.
This will enhance people’s quality of life and create such a direct and convenient network of routes that walking and cycling will become the natural way of covering many journeys in this area. It will connect to and further enhance the east - west coastal route which extends as far as Worthing.
Should Connect2 be successful it would transform not just this area, but communities throughout the UK. In total there are 79 proposed schemes where Connect2 would make a real difference. Each Connect2 scheme will be inspirational in design, but sensitive both to the needs and character of the area.
See also : www.sustransconnect2.org.uk/schemes/project_detail.php?id=54
What
can you do to make Connect2 a success?
Register your support
You can complete the registration form at www.sustransconnect2.org.uk or Text Connect2 to 80010. Sustrans will then be able to keep in touch with you about the national TV vote. Sustrans promise only to use these details to keep you informed about Connect2.
Spread the word
We need as many people as possible to sign-up and support Connect2. Why
not encourage your family, friends, neighbours and contacts to get behind
Connect2 by sending them one the persuasive e-cards available at www.sustransconnect2.org.uk/ecards.
Get your friends, businesses, schools and membership groups to register at www.sustransconnect2.org.uk. The more votes the better the chance of Connect2 winning and of Shoreham having an improved cycling and walking route connecting the station to the sea and other destinations.
The success of the Connect2 project is dependent on the peoples national TV vote across the UK - your vote will count. Adur District Council submitted the bid on behalf of the community and the proposals have the support of West Sussex County Council.
Register now at www.sustransconnect2.org.uk or Text Connect2 to 80010 to ensure you are kept informed of the details of TV vote in December.
If you are involved with schools, community groups, voluntary sector organisations and would further information, posters or leaflets please contact David Steadman, Adur Town Centres and Street Scene Coordinator.
Who are or what is Sustrans?
Sustrans
is the UK’s leading sustainable transport charity,
working on practical projects so people can choose to travel in ways that
benefit their health and the environment.
They are the charity behind the National Cycle Network, Safe Routes to School, Bike It and TravelSmart, all projects that are changing our world one mile at a time.
See their website at : Sustrans
