Government gets tough on active travel | London Cycling Campaign
The Gear Change: One Year On report announced last week is the central document that holds all of the updates the government announced last week. Its key takeaways include:
• £338m, for active travel funding in England (excluding London) which is a one third rise
• “We will reduce funding to councils which do not take active travel seriously, particularly in urban areas. This includes councils which remove schemes prematurely or without proper evidence, and councils which never installed them in the first place. As Gear Change said, an authority’s performance on active travel will help determine the wider funding allocations it receives, not just on active travel. We will require more from all local authorities, urban or rural.” (For more on this, see our separate story on funding freezes for some London boroughs and new network guidance below)
