Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 26 to 30. New cycling schemes The County Council has decided to give a higher priority to cycling and agreed a new strategy to guide the way ahead in East Sussex Cycling is a (26) ______, healthy and environmentally friendly form of transport. It is intended to make it safer, more convenient, and to increase the proportion of ...

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 26 to 30.

New cycling schemes

The County Council has decided to give a higher priority to cycling and agreed a new strategy to guide the way ahead in East Sussex

Cycling is a (26) ______, healthy and environmentally friendly form of transport. It is intended to make it safer, more convenient, and to increase the proportion of journeys made by bicycle.

Cycling is being encouraged both for utility purposes (such as journeys to work, school and the shops) and for recreation trips for exercise and enjoyment, including longer trips by tour. Recent cycle schemes carried out in conjunction with District Councils and other bodies (27) ______ the Brighton and Hove seafront route and the Cross Levels Way cycle route, in Eastbourne.

Local people will be consulted as the strategy is implemented. The County council will work with local cycling and other groups, and a countrywide Cycling Forum will be formed to (28) ______ that all bodies concerned with cycling are in regular (29)______.

The (30) ______ of the Cycling strategy are given in a leaflet, and a copy of the full strategy document can be seen in County Council Public Libraries.