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The £200 million investment in active travel will help grow the local economy by improving transport links, boosting high streets and creating skilled jobs across England.
In addition to improving active travel infrastructure across the city, the new funding will allow Leicester City Council to train staff in accessibility standards, so that the cycling and walking schemes are also inclusive of the more vulnerable communities.
In the latest instalment of Intelligent Transport’s exclusive sustainable mobility Q&A series, Jenny Gilruth MSP, Scotland’s Minister for Transport, discusses the work that the country is currently undertaking to decarbonise its transport sector, make public transport more accessible and improve active travel infrastructure, as well as why an independent Scotland…
As part of TfL's new Leisure Walking Plan, the existing Walk London network of seven long-distance routes, spanning 28 boroughs, has been digitised to make it more easily accessible to everyone across the capital.
Research from charity the Health Foundation suggests that the North East and West Midlands could benefit the most from an improved walking and cycling infrastructure.
The projects benefitting from the new NTA funding include the Clontarf to City Centre scheme in Dublin and the ambitious Mahon to Marina Greenway in Cork.
Paris’ famous Champs-Élysées will see traffic space reduced by half in a bid to entice Parisians back to the famous tree-lined boulevard.
THE LINE will be centred around walking according to its designers, with all major services being built within a few minutes’ walk of communities.
TfL says it is committing even more money to improving walking and cycling in the capital over the next few months.
Greener transport is at the heart of many cities' plans to reduce emissions and stick to their end of the Paris Agreement.
With the UN Climate Change Conference headed for Glasgow in 2021, the Sustainable Transport Alliance has been founded with a view to cutting greenhouse emissions within the mobility sector.
As COVID-19 has changed the way that the residents of Greater Boston travel, ITDP's Julia Wallerce believes a major rethink in how space is divided between pedestrians, cars, and transit is needed.
With the highest congestion rates in India and problems with pollution, Mumbai needs to seriously rethink its transport network. That's according to Shristi Gupta and Vignesh P, who discuss what India's most populous city needs to change.
The funding will go towards Low Traffic Neighbourhoods as well as School Streets, both of which the government hopes will promote walking and cyclng on a daily basis.
Working alongside Vivacity Labs, TfGM is hoping that the new smart junctions will help reduce congestion, as well as protecting vulnerable road users such as cyclists and pedestrians.
