{"id":80931,"date":"2017-04-21T08:52:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T08:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=49d3d2bc986924e2d323cc82df01b2bc"},"modified":"2017-04-21T08:52:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T08:52:00","slug":"news-story-government-publishes-1-2-billion-plan-to-increase-cycling-and-walking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=80931","title":{"rendered":"News story: Government publishes \u00a31.2 billion plan to increase cycling and walking"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The government has published its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/cycling-and-walking-investment-strategy\">\u00a31.2 billion long-term plan to make cycling and walking the natural choice for shorter journeys<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The government wants cycling and walking to become the norm by 2040 and will target funding at innovative ways to encourage people onto a bike or to use their own two feet for shorter journeys.<\/p>\n<p>Plans include specific objectives to double cycling, reduce cycling accidents and increase the proportion of 5 to 10 year-olds walking to school to 55% by 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The \u00a31.2 billion is allocated as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a350 million to provide cycling proficiency training for further 1.3 million children<\/li>\n<li>\u00a3101 million to improve cycling infrastructure and expand cycle routes between the city centres, local communities, and key employment and retail sites<\/li>\n<li>\u00a385 million to make improvements to 200 sections of roads for cyclists<\/li>\n<li>\u00a380 million for safety and awareness training for cyclists, extra secure cycle storage, bike repair, maintenance courses and road safety measures<\/li>\n<li>\u00a3389.5 million for councils to invest in walking and cycling schemes<\/li>\n<li>\u00a3476.4 million from local growth funding to support walking and cycling<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition, the government is investing an extra:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a35 million on improving cycle facilities at railway stations<\/li>\n<li>\u00a31 million on Living Streets\u2019 outreach programmes to encourage children to walk to school<\/li>\n<li>\u00a31 million on <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bigbikerevival.org.uk\/\">Cycling UK\u2019s \u2018Big Bike Revival\u2019 scheme<\/a> which provides free bike maintenance and cycling classes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/OHUtHqzm6qg\">What we\u2019re doing to get more people cycling and walking<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We are making cycling and walking more accessible to everyone because of the substantial health and environmental benefits &#8211; it will also be a boost for businesses because a fitter and healthier workforce is more productive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">We have already tripled spending on cycling since 2010 and we are now publishing a long-term investment plan because we are absolutely committed to increasing levels of cycling and walking.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Transport Minister Andrew Jones said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As the days are becoming longer and warmer we want to encourage people to make cycling and walking the natural choice for shorter journeys \u2013 improving people\u2019s health, reducing travel costs, cutting congestion and cleaning up the environment in the process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Today we have set out our long-term approach to encourage more people to cycle or walk and overcome the barriers which stop them from doing so.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/9Xck1PxIwLc\">How we\u2019re making cycling safer in eight cities<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Joe Irvin, Chief Executive Living Streets said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Publication of government\u2019s first ever statutory \u2018Cycling and walking investment strategy\u2019 is a historic moment. Making it easier for people to walk their everyday journeys will improve our health, economy and social welfare. We now need to turn good intentions into practical progress and help government step up to the new ambitions.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Paul Tuohy, Chief Executive of Cycling UK:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Cycling is a fantastic transport choice, helping you to stay active and healthy as part of your daily routine, and saving you money on travel costs. Cycling UK\u2019s Big Bike Revival will help tens of thousands of people back into cycling by getting your bikes checked over, fixed up and back into use. We are grateful to the Department for Transport for supporting this initiative for this, our third year of national activities to help get more of the UK cycling more often.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Xavier Brice, Chief Executive Sustrans, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The first ever \u2018Cycling and walking investment strategy\u2019 is a significant step forward by the government. There is an overwhelming body of evidence that demonstrates that investment in cycling and walking has many health, social and economic benefits and must be prioritised. The challenge now is to deliver the change needed locally and nationally.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Under the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.legislation.gov.uk\/ukpga\/2015\/7\/contents\/enacted\">Infrastructure Act 2015<\/a> , the government is required to set a \u2018Cycling and walking investment strategy\u2019 for England. This is the first of a series of shorter term, 5 year strategies to support the long-term ambition to make walking and cycling the natural choice for shorter journeys by 2040.<\/p>\n<div class=\"contact \" id=\"contact_1018\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Roads media enquiries<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Press enquiries<\/span><br \/>\n              020 7944 3021\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Out of hours<\/span><br \/>\n              020 7944 4292\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Switchboard<\/span><br \/>\n              0300 330 3000\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cycling and walking investment strategy released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80931"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80931"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80950,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80931\/revisions\/80950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}