Celtic Trail’s new Routes2Ride website helps thousands get on their bikes in Wales
Last updated 8/6/2008 12:01:41 AM
The Celtic Trail is an environmentally friendly way to see some of the best Wales countryside. (Photos cycling.visitwales.com)
Deputy First Minister Ieuan Wyn Jones is urging people across Wales to discover the country's beautiful landscape on two wheels at a double cycling celebration at the National Eisteddfod Maes.
The Minister for Economy and Transport will be joined by young cyclists to unveil a new interactive and bilingual Routes2Ride website set up by sustainable transport charity Sustrans, which will go live later this month.
Rides along National Cycle Network routes featured on the website will include the stunning Celtic Trail between Fishguard and Chepstow, which has just had a £9.3 million upgrade.
The Objective One project - funded through the Welsh European Funding Office - replaced a number of the trail’s interim sections through Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire, Swansea, Neath Port Talbot, Bridgend, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Merthyr and Caerphilly.