A safe trip down memory lane will open in Townhill next week.
Generations of youngsters remember heading to Dunfermline’s Pittencrieff Park and its miniature village, complete with traffic lights and zebra crossings, for cycling lessons.
It closed in 1999 but now Townhill Community Council is putting the finishing touches to a similar £75,000 training area, transforming an upkempt corner of Townhill Park into a new community facility.
The community council’s updated version of the popular model traffic area, created in 1950, features safe pathways forming a mini road network, compete with signs to give young cyclists an authentic taste of the current rules of the road and Highway Code.
The area, created through successful grant applications and fundraising, would be available for the public to use.
It will also by used by Townhill Primary School for its Bikeability cycling proficiency lessons.
Once proficient on two wheels, children could then make use of the Fife cycle track network which adjoins the park.
It is hoped plan would attract even more visitors to the Townhill park, which is becoming a destination for visitors from across Fife.
Now the community council hopes to secure funding for a secure 20ft storage container which would be located at the north end of the park.
Chairman Ronnie Cowan said the community council would benefit from having storage while the school has no space in which to store bicycles.
It is hoped the community council can buy a limited number of cycles for the primary next year for pupils to use on their training days.
This is “so every child is given the opportunity to participate in this important road safety initiative”, he added.
The original model traffic area, made so children could learn to ride bikes in safety away from cars, was a massive hit from day one.
In the first six days of it opening 1,220 children had enjoyed the facility.
The site is where the Carnegie Trust buildings now stand.