Cornwall opens flagship bridge after curtailed active travel plans16/04/2024 A 'game changer' active travel bridge over the A30 in Cornwall is now open. |
DfT trickles out cash for Hammersmith Bridge fix10/04/2024 The Government has given Hammersmith and Fulham council nearly £3m to provide a new cycle lane on Hammersmith Bridge but funding for a £250m permanent repair appears to have stalled. |
Green Liverpool projects win European funding09/04/2024 Greening projects designed to complement new active travel routes in Liverpool will be funded by a European climate grant worth almost £80,000. |
TfL hands boroughs £80m for streets31/01/2024 Transport for London (TfL) has announced up to £80.4m for boroughs to improve public transport, make walking and cycling safer and create new school streets. |
Street scene can be key in fight for healthy ageing24/11/2023 A new study has highlighted the importance of good pavements and slower traffic in helping older people get outdoors more. |
Active travel progress 'disappointingly slow'03/11/2023 The Government is not on track to meet its active travel targets, with funding uncertainty hampering councils’ efforts, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has said. |
Prefab bridges give a lift to active travel in Bournemouth27/09/2023 Work begins this weekend to install two new pedestrian and cycle bridges alongside a road as it crosses a railway in Bournemouth. |
SRN plans throw minister's cycle spend claim into doubt03/08/2023 National Highways' spending plans cast doubt on a transport minister’s claim that it is ‘due to’ spend £105m on cycling, walking and horse-riding this road investment period. |
Pedestrian crossing lights could stay green longer25/07/2023 Active Travel England is considering introducing new guidance for councils that could increase the amount of time people have to cross the road. |
Sustrans releases 'breakthrough' active travel behaviours tool30/06/2023 Sustrans has launched what it calls a ‘breakthrough tool’ that uniquely analyses localised data on public behaviours and attitudes towards walking and cycling. |
Active travel targets 'in tatters'07/06/2023 The Government is not on track to meet its targets to increase cycling and walking and should consider whether they remain achievable, Parliament’s spending watchdog has said. |
Active travel funding cut faces court challenge06/06/2023 Campaigners have threatened ministers with legal action over the decision to slash spending on walking and cycling for the last two years of the current Parliament. |
£200m active travel cash allocated but LTNs blocked22/05/2023 The Department for Transport has announced allocations for the £200m fourth (2022-23) round of the Active Travel Fund and revealed that it had blocked all low traffic neighbourhood (LTNs) schemes from the funding. |
Newham continues active revolution with £51m programme04/05/2023 Newham Council has announced a radical active and sustainable travel programme, backed by £51m capital investment until 2031, including an expansion of low traffic neighbourhoods (LTN) and a borough-wide 20mph limit. |
Council team Pick Everard for Trent bridge test07/03/2023 Property consultancy Pick Everard has joined forces with Balfour Beatty to deliver a new crossing over the UK’s third-longest river. |
Active travel asset management is 'a sleeping giant'01/03/2023 LCRIG director and government adviser Paula Claytonsmith has called for more focus on active travel maintenance, arguing that local asset management plans need to adapt. |
Active Travel Fund 4: Councils invited to bid for £200m07/02/2023 The Department for Transport has unveiled its latest tranche of active travel funding with £200m up for grabs for English councils. |
Analysis: The renaissance will be active07/10/2022 A policy toolkit from local government think tank Localis argues that active travel can have a key role to play in saving the high street. Its remedies are not radical, but in making the case it raises the prospect of a quiet renaissance. Dominic Browne reports. |
Shapps stokes anger over cyclist insurance and speed limits proposal17/08/2022 Cycling groups have hit back at comments from Grant Shapps in which he suggested that speed limits should apply to cyclists and ‘proposed’ a review into issues of insurance and how to track cyclists who break the law. |
Boardman looks to 'change travel culture of a nation'29/06/2022 Ministers have confirmed the permanent appointment of Chris Boardman as England’s active travel commissioner and announced a raft of appointments to lead Active Travel England. |
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