This money could have been used on cycle parking facilities or on capital expenditure to facilitate cycle training if the local authority chose to do so.In 1998, some £580,000 of grant was provided through the Cycle Challenge Initiative as pump priming to 35 innovative cycling projects throughout Scotland. Of these, four related directly to school cycling projects.Finally, I recently announced that in the third round of competition for the Public Transport Fund, £4.3 million was awarded to cycling and walking projects.