Forest Green Rovers and taxi app Bolt encourage football fans to ditch their cars on matchdays

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Green partnership initiative will encourage fans to walk to matches with a target of reaching 1.5bn steps collectively across the season

Forest Green Rovers FC has teamed up with car sharing, taxi and food delivery app Bolt to encourage football fans to ditch their cars and travel on foot to the club's matches, as part of a joint green...

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