CROYDON has been awarded nearly £500,000 by the Mayor of London to make cycling improvements.
The money will be available over three years and will go toward bike parking spaces, cycle and driver training as well as other initiatives to encourage people to take up cycling.
In total the Mayor's office has awarded more than £17 million to fund schemes to make cycling safer and more accessible across London.
Mayor of London Boris Johnson said: "We are engaging in a vast £1 billion programme of improvements to transform cycling in London.
"Making some of this money available directly to the boroughs will help ensure that cycling developments reach communities in the capital.
"These local schemes will add to the innovative measures we've already announced, including enhanced cycling superhighways, urban 'quietways' for more cautious cyclists, and turning some outer boroughs into mini-Hollands.
"All 32 boroughs and the City of London bid for, and received funding through our Borough Cycling Programme to create more cycle parking, cycling training and driving training, all of which will help deliver significant cycle safety improvements."
Croydon has been allocated £491,200, less than other boroughs such as Westminster (£938,000), Newham (£905,000) and Lambeth (£712,000), but more than neighbours Sutton (£398,640) and Merton (£387,000).
