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Gear Change One Year On is one of the cycling and walking documents published by the DfT on 30th July 2021. Introduction The Introduction notes that there has been a very significant increase in traffic on England’s urban roads recently.

Kantar has carried out polling for the DfT, among residents of new Low Traffic Neighbourhoods. This is Phase 2 polling, and it follows Phase 1 polling in November 2020. There is majority support for active travel measures including LTNs. Respondents

Funding for active travel in 2021/22 has been increased from £257 million to £338 million, according to a government press release on Friday 30th July 2021. North Yorkshire has already made an Active Travel Fund bid on the basis of

The Minister with responsibility for cycling, Chris Heaton-Harris, wrote to councils yesterday about active travel schemes supported by government funding. He says school streets, pop-up cycle lanes and Low Traffic Neighbourhoods implemented under the Emergency Active Travel Fund command public

North Yorkshire’s bid for money from the Active Travel Fund 2021 is rather odd and a little disappointing. £900,000, or 58% of the total, is requested for a canal towpath leisure route near Silsden. There is also a request for

Local authorities including North Yorkshire have an opportunity to bid for money from the Active Travel Fund this year (2021/22). Bids must be submitted by 9th August 2021. Key Principles A letter from Rupert Furness of the DfT’s Active and

Transport for the North have produced a Decarbonisation Strategy, and a consultation is open for comments on it, from 7th June to 31st August 2021. We have reached the point where those in authority no longer deny that there’s a

The results of the Harrogate Station Gateway consultation are in, and they support the more ambitious scheme to improve access to Harrogate Station. That means the One Lane Option for Station Parade, and full pedestrianisation of James Street. A report