Women-led Glow Ride in Liverpool
It's aimed at promoting safer streets and better cycling infrastructure
Female cyclists in Liverpool are joining a mass bike ride today as part of calls for safer routes in the dark.
The 'glow ride' is set to start from Sefton Park Café at 6:30pm.
Rides are taking place across the country to highlight the need for better lighting and safer cycling routes.
Kirsty Styles, one of the lead volunteer organisers of Ride The Night Liverpool, said:
"What we've managed to pull together here in Merseyside is a bike ride that is entirely led by women - a lot of women who've been trained by local clubs and the idea behind all of this is that not only do we need lots more people to ride bikes more often, but we particularly need women to ride bikes more often.
"Even though, over the years, men have started riding bikes a lot more and you might see groups of men out on country lanes over the weekend, women are must less likely to do that for a lot of different reasons.
"This mass ride is to make women on bikes visible as people, but then test a little about why we might not ride. It might be dark, you might not have the right clothes, and so we're just showing, particularly with a big group of people, some safe routes and how fun it can be ride together, even at this time of year."