£50m invested in eco-friendly transport

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Money will be invested in cycling networks, low-carbon transport and transferring freight from road to rail.

A total of £50m will be invested in eco-friendly transport over the next four years, the Scottish Government has announced.

Transport Minister Keith Brown said that the money will be invested in cycling networks, low-carbon transport and transferring freight from road to rail.

Production starts on sustainable bamboo bikes in ghana

The Bamboo Bike Project (BBP) and the Millennium Cities Initiative (MCI) at the Earth Institute, Columbia University, along with Ghana-based Bamboo Bikes Limited (BBL) have launched a two week long bamboo bike training program to begin production of 750 bikes for a test run in Kumasi, Ghana. The training program will culminate in the creation of the first large-scale bamboo bike production factory in the world, with ambitions of producing up to 20,000 affordable bikes a year to serve the transportation needs of the rural poor in Ghana.