{"id":295560,"date":"2021-03-11T18:08:35","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T08:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=295560"},"modified":"2021-03-11T18:26:06","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T08:26:06","slug":"bicycles-offered-to-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2021\/03\/11\/bicycles-offered-to-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Bicycles Offered To Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>March 11, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The fate of 15 bicycles left over after a 2018 South Burnett Regional Council program to encourage more people to take up cycling may be finally known soon.<\/p>\n<p>The bicycles were purchased with State Government funding for use in a\u00a0\u00a0\u201cGet Out, Get Active!\u201d program on the South Burnett Rail Trail.<\/p>\n<p>After the program ended, Council trialled a bike hire scheme for six weeks which ultimately failed due to a number of reasons, including poor promotion at the various hire points.<\/p>\n<p>It was then decided in October 2019 that the bikes would\u00a0for offered for free to any community group that wanted to start a bicycle hire service.<\/p>\n<p>However, it appears no groups came forward to take up this idea.<\/p>\n<p>This week, the SBRC issued an official &#8220;Invitation To Offer&#8221; seeking expressions of interest from\u00a0South Burnett not-for-profit community groups.<\/p>\n<p>They must explain what the intended use for the 15 &#8220;Merida Big Nine 40&#8221; bicycles will be.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>More information is available on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southburnett.qld.gov.au\/tenders-supply\/tenders\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Council&#8217;s website<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Related articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2019\/10\/28\/council-drops-bike-hire-idea\/\">Council Drops Bike Hire Idea<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2019\/03\/20\/council-to-trial-bicycle-hire\/\">Council To Trial Bicycle Hire<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2018\/07\/16\/free-cycling-programs-for-women\/\">Free Cycling Programs For Women<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fate of 15 bicycles left over after a 2018 South Burnett Regional Council program to encourage more people to take up cycling may be finally known soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":231260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,3],"tags":[1131],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - 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