GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND - Clean Breaks: 500 New Ways to See the World - page 5

001 Ride the NatioNal CyCle
NetwoRk
Despite Britain's cyclists' success at the Beijing
Olympics, the British have always lagged behind
most other Europeans when it comes to a national
cycling culture. Sustrans - the Sustainable
Transport charity - is trying to change all that.
In 1977, it helped establish the National Cycle
Network and, with the help of thousands of
volunteers, has since developed over 20,000km of
cycling lanes throughout the UK, along disused
railway lines, converted bridle paths and canal
towpaths, through forests and open countryside
and along the coast.
As part of a programme known as “Art and
the Travelling Landscape”, Sustrans has
commissioned over 350 permanent sculptures
to line some of the flatter, more family-friendly
cycling paths. The idea is that they reflect some
aspect of the local community and landscape.
Examples of where you can find the artworks are:
The Water Rail Way A 50km route from Lincoln
to Boston, which meanders alongside the River
Witham crossing open fenland. Artworks by
Belgian architect Paul Robbrecht. (National Cycle
Network Route 1)
(Clockwise from top left)
The Collier's Way; Hi Views
designed by Paul Robbrecht
on the Water Rail Way,
Lincolnshire; Close-up of Hi
Views ; The Collier's Way;
Lincoln Red Shorthorns by
Sally Matthews on the Water
Rail Way