Removing active travel schemes could cost councils funding – transportxtra
Heaton-Harris letter insists cycle lanes and LTNs need to given time to bed in
Councils that remove active travel schemes before having given them a chance to work or without evidence they are failing could lose future central government funding, ministers have warned.
Following a number of councils removing cycle lanes and Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) in the face of vocal objections, transport minister Chris Heaton-Harris has formally written to the leaders of all English local authorities with transport responsibilities.
Heaton-Harris emphasises that active travel schemes supported by government funding need to be left in place long enough for their impacts to be properly monitored and assessed.
The letter, sent on Friday 30 July, warned councils that if cycling and walking schemes installed using central government money are hastily abandoned, this could affect future grants.
