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New junior active travel inspectors will work with teachers and parents to assess local walking and cycling routes around their schools.
National active travel network will provide 3,500 miles of safer routes for better connectivity, targeting areas where health and air quality are poorest.
Investing in safer roads will encourage more women to cycle, build healthier, stronger communities and help ease pressure on the NHS.
The government will publish a third cycling and walking investment strategy setting out its long-term vision for active travel.
We are making sure local authorities can provide high-quality and easily accessible active travel schemes across England.
New guidance will help to design activity into our neighbourhoods and reduce congestion on the roads during school run times.
Newly funded projects will provide even more people, especially in rural and deprived areas, the choice to travel by walking, wheeling or cycling.
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
More children will have access to walk to school and cycle training programmes over the next 2 years, giving them better road skills.
Eleven local authorities in England have been funded to enable health workers prescribe walking and cycling to patients.
As a statutory consultee, Active Travel England will help planning authorities implement good walking, wheeling and cycling infrastructure.
Funding will ease congestion across cities, transform the school run and provide a boost to high street businesses.
More people than ever are regularly walking or cycling rather than using the car due to increases in the cost of living.
The collaboration will support Active Travel England and councils to offer schemes that benefit residents.
New fund to help local authorities make improvements that enable more people to choose active travel.
Funding will help councils to develop better designed walking and cycling schemes.
Funding for local authorities to train engineers and planners to conduct high-quality engagement and consultation sessions with local communities.
England’s Chief Medical Officer joins West Midlands’ Mayor, Chair of the Office of Rail and Road, and Arup’s Global Transport Leader.
First published during the 2022 Truss Conservative government
Eleven local authority areas in England to benefit from £12.7 million in multi-year funding.
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
Government sets out a range of measures to mark a year of success since the Transport Decarbonisation Plan was introduced.
Active Travel England will be headed up permanently by Chris Boardman with Chief Executive Officer Danny Williams and Chief Operating Officer Louise Wilkinson.
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