Over £500m pledged to active travel infrastructure in Scotland

Funding

Scottish Government’s active travel fund could enable temporary schemes such as this one at Waverley Bridge, Edinburgh, to become permanent.

The Scottish Government is to invest more than £500m in active travel infrastructure over five years as part of its recovery plan from Covid-19. 

In response to the fall in car usage and rise active travel during lockdown, the Scottish Government has been working with the walking and cycling charity Sustrans to develop a programme of road reallocation measures. The injection of new funding will now allow local authorities to review these temporary infrastructure projects...

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