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Relevant to our interests:

The cycling industry will join forces to call on government to exempt
cycling from any ban, due to its strategic role in the nation’s
resilience - not only as transport but a form of exercise, the Bicycle
Association has said.

Italy and Spain banned leisure cycling in the last week. The industry
wants the UK to avoid cycling bans, and it wants bike shops exempted
from shop opening restrictions as it believes cycling has a strategic
role to play in mitigating some of the impact on peoples’ lives of
restrictions on transport and access to the outdoors.

This follows 30 prominent health and transport experts’ calls to
protect cycling and walking plus keeping parks open, and warns of the
risks of confining otherwise healthy people to their homes.

Getting outside for fresh air and green spaces could be crucial in
maintaining physical and mental health in the population during these
times, they say.

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Squaredisk in reply to @

Getting outside for fresh air and green spaces could be crucial in maintaining physical and mental health in the population during these times, they say.

True. I'm pretty concerned about not being able to go for a ride. Hope it doesn't come to that, but obviously there are bigger issues too.

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_rp in reply to @Squaredisk

My mate in Spain can’t go out for a cycle but he can walk his dog:

”Apparently, dog walking is allowed but only one human per dog. However, there's a suggestion that parents with kids who are all stuck indoors might start to resent the dog walkers. As a result, you have to maintain a sombre expression throughout.”

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