Birmingham City Council has pledged to build another eight miles of off-road cycle route. The Grand Union Canal towpath will be improved further towards Solihull, and the Tame Valley Canal towards Walsall, while a series of links in country parks will connect up existing paths. Councillor Lisa Trickett said the aim was to make cycling “an attractive, affordable and healthy mode of transport in the city”.

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