Groceries and Emergency Care by Bicycle

Bikes a Hit With Irish Cops

....A supermarket chain in England is delivering groceries directly to their customers homes by bicycle. 

The chain wants to increases its home delivery business without putting more vans or trucks on the streets. 

They answer they found is bicycle delivery.  Actually it will be a bicycle and trailer. 

The bike's trailer will hold six trays of groceries.  The trailers are designed to keep products frozen and chilled for up to two hours.

This is a brand new idea, right?  Wrong!  In the late 19th and early 20th Centuries bicycles loaded with food were an a regualr occurance.  

The company feels they will be saving energy and helping the inviroment by trading gas powered vehicles for earth friendly bicycles.  The idea is actually just an extension of something the supermarket chain has be doing for some time.  They already loan out bicycle trailers to customers to encourage them to take their shopping home by bike.

ParaMedics on Bikes

Paramedics on bicycles are being introduced in three English seaside resorts in an effort to speed up response times.

The trials in Brighton, East Sussex, and Canterbury and Whitstable, in Kent, will enable them to respond to patients previously inaccessible by vehicle.

An ambulance will be sent if the patient needs transporting to hospital.

The bikes have been fitted out with the necessary life-saving medical equipment - which includes a defibrillator carried on the paramedic's back.

A spokesman said, "We believe these bikes will prove to be a positive addition to our fleet in terms of responding quickly and appropriately to patients."

Bicycle Crime Fighters

The use of bicycles by an Irish police unit has proved so popular that it is to be expanded three-fold.

Members of the Garda Mountain Bike Unit has been told that the number of machines at their disposal will be increased from 130 to 489.

The service now has purchased 220 bicycles for the use of patrolling officers.

The Garda Mountain Bike Unit was established on a pilot basis in two Dublin districts in April 2001.

Within a year it was operating throughout the Dublin area and expanded to Cork, Galway and Limerick.

Senior officers said the units had "proved popular with local communities".

There are currently over 1,050 officers trained in mountain bike patrolling methods.  

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