Regional mayors make national network pledge03/07/2025 A dozen English mayors have pledged to work together to create a ‘national active travel network’. |
Scottish active travel receives £23m boost23/06/2025 The Scottish Government has allocated £23.45m across its seven Regional Transport Partnerships (RTPs) for active travel schemes that target short, everyday journeys. |
Court of Appeal rules £200m active travel cuts were unlawful12/06/2025 The Court of Appeal has ruled that £200m worth of cuts to active travel made in March 2023 were unlawful. |
Winners of £26m active travel cash revealed15/05/2025 Scottish transport secretary, Fiona Hyslop has announced the winners of a £26m tranche of cash for a raft of active travel projects. |
New data from TfL’s e-scooter rental trial shows boost to active travel13/05/2025 Transport for London (TfL), 10 London Councils and two e-scooter operators – Voi and Lime – have recently released new data that shows that London’s e-scooter rental trial has helped to boost sustainable and active travel in the city. |
Nine Elms on the road to more active travel10/04/2025 Transport for London (TfL) will shortly begin the next stage of works to upgrade Nine Elms Lane and Battersea Park Road with the addition of new cycle tracks, wider footways, improved pedestrian crossings and safer bus stops. |
First steps for Bury Interchange transformation08/04/2025 Plans for a new pedestrian bridge have been announced by Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) as the first part of plans to create Greater Manchester’s first operationally carbon-neutral transport hub at the Bury Exchange. |
Active travel targets at risk as national strategy set for delay20/02/2025 The Government looks set to miss key active travel targets and is slipping behind schedule on the third cycling and walking investment strategy (CWIS), Highways can reveal. |
£300m active travel funding allocated12/02/2025 The Government has confirmed £291m for active travel over the next two years as well as reforms to Active Travel England's (ATE) local funding model. |
Plowden in for Tuohy at CfBT14/01/2025 Campaign for Better Transport has appointed Ben Plowden as its next chief executive officer, taking over from Paul Tuohy, who is stepping down in the spring. |
Negative narrative on cycling 'harming health'02/01/2025 Anti-cycling coverage in parts of the media is damaging public health, according to Chris Boardman, who leads government efforts to boost active travel in England. |
UK’s second ‘Dutch-style’ roundabout opens10/12/2024 A roundabout that gives priority to cyclists and pedestrians has opened in Sheffield. |
O'Dowd joins the AT crowd with new delivery plan18/11/2024 The Northern Ireland Executive has launched a public consultation on its plans to deliver over 200km of ‘high quality’ active travel infrastructure over the next 10 years. |
Poole £15m works enhance sustainable travel15/11/2024 Milestone Infrastructure has begun work on a package of bus, walking, cycling and road improvements in Poole worth £15m. |
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Revealed: New council rankings in active travel26/09/2024 Active Travel England (ATE) has published new capability ratings for local authorities, showing improvements among the lowest ranked councils but slow progress overall, with no authority reaching the top level. |
Govt backs Khan to pedestrianise Oxford Street17/09/2024 The mayor of London has unveiled government-backed plans to pedestrianise London’s most famous shopping street. |
Bridge across beloved Clyde opens and closes and opens again09/09/2024 The Govan – Partick Bridge, one of the longest opening pedestrian and cycle bridges in Europe, has now opened. |
Scottish Govt slashes active travel as part of £500m cuts04/09/2024 Scotland's finance secretary Shona Robison has announced spending cuts of £500m in the current financial year, with spending on sustainable and active travel badly hit. |
Haigh: Councils should decide traffic measures22/08/2024 The transport secretary has pledged to back councils that implement low traffic neighbourhoods and 20mph limits, with the new government ‘absolutely determined’ to end the Tories’ ‘culture wars’ approach. |
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