An active travel campaigner is urging leaders to fight back against 'drastic' £200m cuts to the Government's walking and cycling infrastructure plan.
An active travel campaigner is urging leaders to fight back against "drastic" £200m cuts to the Government's walking and cycling infrastructure plan.Last Wednesday, Shropshire Council's draft Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plan was signed off by the authority's cabinet, with Salopians being urged to share their views on a new 10-year scheme to upgrade walking and cycling networks across the county.
Mr Wilson, Lib Dem councillor for Copthorne, said:"In the week that Shropshire published its draft walking and cycling infrastructure plan, will Lezley Picton and Ian Nellins also write to Jesse Norman to urge the government to reconsider deep cuts to active travel funding?A statement from Sustrans, the charity which campaigns for better cycleways, said:"It is heartbreaking to see vital active travel budgets wiped away in England, at the exact time when they are most essential to UK...
"Representing a two-thirds cut to promised capital investment in safe infrastructure for walking, wheeling and cycling, these cuts are a backward move for active travel and will counteract the tremendous progress we’ve seen in recent years. "Promised Government targets of 50 per cent of all journeys in English towns and cities being walked or cycled by 2030, and for the UK to be Net Zero by 2050, are made impossible by these cuts.
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