A CYCLE park at a Darlington school will be opened tomorrow by Health Secretary Alan Milburn.
The town's MP will open the facility and a safe bike and walking route at Eastbourne Comprehensive School.
The park, which has 100 spaces for bikes and lockers for cycling equipment, was created after a survey in 2001 found that more than 30 per cent of pupils wanted to cycle to school.
Funding came from the Cycling Projects Fund, the sustainable transport charity Sustrans, Darlington Borough Council and the school.
Owen Wilson, from Tees Valley Sustrans, said: "From the first it has been clear that a secure bike shelter was essential if the many Eastbourne pupils who expressed the wish to cycle to school were to do so."
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